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Longtime AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka dies at age 72

by Brian SlodyskoThomas Beaumont
| August 5, 2021 10:03 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Richard Trumka, the powerful president of the AFL-CIO who rose from the coal mines of Pennsylvania to preside over one of the largest labor organizations in the world, died Thursday. He was 72.

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