AFL-CIO Chief to Obama: Look at What's Necessary

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Channel: FORA.tv · 2011 · News & Politics

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Richard Trumka, the president of America's largest labor federation, said President Obama faces a key moment in the eyes of working Americans and that if he "nibbles" at big issues "working people will judge him that way."

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On Thursday, August 25, 2011, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka joined the Monitor Breakfast for a conversation with reporters.

"If you want to help workers, you first need to help people," said  On September 16, 2009, Richard L. Trumka was elected President of the AFL-CIO by acclamation at the Federation's 26th convention in Pittsburgh, Pa. His election, following 15 years of service as the AFL-CIO's Secretary Treasurer, capped Trumka's rise to leadership of the nation's largest labor federation from humble beginnings in the small coal mining communities of southwest Pennsylvania.

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