Richard Trumka
 Richard Trumka    (labor leader) | ||||||||||||
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| Born | 24 July 1949 | |||||||||||
| Died | 5 August 2021 (Age 72) | |||||||||||
Cause of death | heart attack | |||||||||||
| Nationality | US | |||||||||||
| Alma mater | Pennsylvania State University, Villanova University | |||||||||||
| Religion | Catholic | |||||||||||
| Member of | President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, Solidarity Center | |||||||||||
| Victim of | premature death? | |||||||||||
US union leader who died a week after supporting mandatory vaccination as president of the AFL-CIO.
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Richard Louis Trumka was an American attorney and organized labor leader. He served as president of the United Mine Workers from 1982 to 1995, and then was secretary-general of the AFL–CIO from 1995 to 2009. He was elected president of the AFL–CIO on September 16, 2009, at the federation's convention in Pittsburgh, and served in that position until his death.[1][2]
Death
Trumka died a week after supporting mandatory vaccination as president of the AFL-CIO.[3]
On July 1, 2022, the White House announced that Trumka would be posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.[4]
Family
Trumka married Barbara (nee Vidovich) in 1982. They had one son,[5] Richard Trumka, Jr., whom President Joe Biden appointed in 2021 to be a Commissioner of the Consumer Products Safety Commission. Trumka was a Roman Catholic.[6]
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| WEF/Annual Meeting/2011 | 26 January 2011 | 30 January 2011 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | 2229 guests in Davos, with the theme: "Shared Norms for the New Reality". |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2012 | 25 January 2012 | 29 January 2012 | Switzerland | 2113 guests in Davos |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2020 | 21 January 2020 | 24 January 2020 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | This mega-summit of the world's ruling class and their political and media appendages happens every year, but 2020 was special, as the continuous corporate media coverage of COVID-19 started more or less from one day to the next on 20/21 January 2020, coinciding with the start of the meeting. |
References
- ↑ https://www.webcitation.org/69VQd1zUA?url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/16/business/16labor.html?_r=2
- ↑ https://www.webcitation.org/69VR9TPPI?url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/us/13labor.html?_r=1
- ↑ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/afl-cio-president-richard-trumka-dead-72-report
- ↑ https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/07/01/president-biden-announces-recipients-of-the-presidential-medal-of-freedom/
- ↑ "U.M.W. Chief Married; Threat Upsets Schedule." Associated Press. November 28, 1982.
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20120330191149/http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1001332.htm
