New York, NY – Respected labor leader Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, died on August 5, of an apparent heart attack. Born in 1949, he served as president of
WASHINGTON—AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka died suddenly on August 5, apparently of a heart attack. A former coal miner from western Pennsylvania who became head of the United Mine Workers
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.—Voters in Missouri rejected a state law banning the union shop by a two-to-one margin in the Aug. 7 primary. Proposition A, which would have allowed the so-called
