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Breaking — AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka is dead…
https://citizenfreepress.com ^ | August 5, 2021 | Posted by Kane, CFP

Posted on 08/05/2021 9:23:36 AM PDT by Enterprise

Richard Trumka, president of the powerful AFL-CIO labor organization, has died unexpectedly, two sources told POLITICO. Trumka, 72, had served as president of the federation, which represents more than 12.5 million workers, for more than a decade and has been a close ally of the Biden White House.

Trumka died of what was believed to be a heart attack, a source familiar with the matter said. It was unclear when exactly it occurred though believed to have taken place either Wednesday evening or Thursday morning

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: aflcio; politico; richardtrumka; trumka; trumkaobit; trumpka; trumpkaobit; union
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To: Enterprise

I don’t know how to feel Guess I’ll just go on living. Whatever union he was king of, I don’t expect any changes.


101 posted on 08/05/2021 10:14:25 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: Jane Long

okay, sorry to be dense but does he come out against it at the end of July?


102 posted on 08/05/2021 10:14:49 AM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: Enterprise

George Meany outlived him despite having a cigar permanently in his mouth.


103 posted on 08/05/2021 10:15:10 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (Frank Luntz's Head Rug Is Transitioning to Muskrat)
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To: LRoggy

More money that he & his cronies could soak up perhaps the rank-n-file got some but only as an after thought.

Fundamentally he was a gangster ask the Yablonski family!


104 posted on 08/05/2021 10:16:27 AM PDT by Reily
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To: Enterprise

I wonder if SNL will do a running gag about this:

AFL-CIO President Trumka is still dead.


105 posted on 08/05/2021 10:19:53 AM PDT by euram
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To: spacejunkie2001

No idea.

Have you done a search for any updates?


106 posted on 08/05/2021 10:20:33 AM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation.)
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To: Jane Long

I was just trying to clear up the confusion from your post saying he said something different on 7/28


107 posted on 08/05/2021 10:32:08 AM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: Enterprise

I’d like to por a bottle of whiskey on his grave....after I filter it through my body.


108 posted on 08/05/2021 10:35:00 AM PDT by magyars4 (To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men!)
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To: spacejunkie2001

Sorry for any confusion.....I should’ve said/explained that this is the LATEST I could find, from him.


109 posted on 08/05/2021 10:35:19 AM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation.)
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To: Enterprise

Vaxxed?


110 posted on 08/05/2021 10:37:55 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Enterprise
I'll comment for you.

Welcome off my Liste d'merde, Richard.

111 posted on 08/05/2021 11:05:08 AM PDT by Blogatron (I don’t know how to be less white, but I do know how to buy less Coke.)
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To: Enterprise

I’ll second your no comment.

5.56mm


112 posted on 08/05/2021 11:06:30 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: Red Badger

Arkancide?
Epsteined?

No joke. I’ve read for years that there have been knives out within the AFL-CIO for Trumka. And of course each other.

Will be interesting to follow the battle for control of the AFL-CIO politburo. Huge amounts of money at stake, especially control of the pension fund.


113 posted on 08/05/2021 11:22:20 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan (Eleutheromaniac)
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To: Enterprise

So he won’t be spending Eternity in a anonymous hole in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, unlike a lot of his acquaintances?


114 posted on 08/05/2021 11:32:20 AM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: Enterprise
No comment...

Agreed with it... NO COMMENT!!

115 posted on 08/05/2021 11:39:06 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (I'm the one trying to save American Democracy...Donald Trump 6/5/21 at the NCGOP convention)
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To: Enterprise

no comment...no theories...no guesses....but strange and timely death...


116 posted on 08/05/2021 12:12:28 PM PDT by cherry
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To: LRoggy

Here is a different point of view.
https://www.trevorloudon.com/2011/03/is-richard-trumka-a-dsa-socialist/


117 posted on 08/05/2021 12:53:12 PM PDT by Doulos1 (Bitter Clinger Forever!)
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To: LRoggy

To the best of my knowledge, Trumka did not oppose Hillary’s plan to shut down the mines and throw the miners out of work. He also doesn’t have appeared to have spoken out strongly against the outsourcing of jobs to China. A strong union leader, dedicated to the welfare of his members, would have gone to verbal war with these threats to his members.


118 posted on 08/05/2021 6:07:48 PM PDT by Enterprise
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To: Enterprise

Kind of depended which network he was being interviewed on. I would see him a decent amount on CNBC and he took on a more moderate tone there.


119 posted on 08/05/2021 6:09:48 PM PDT by LRoggy (Peter's Son's Business )
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To: Jane Long
I personally used to know him and his father. They're both "nice" guys until we talked about politics or relationships. Both didn't believe in marriage that lasted. Last time I talked to Richard was about three years ago. We used to talk nearly every night for years playing a game Ulitma Online together.

I was banned from the game for defending Trump about three years ago.
120 posted on 08/05/2021 8:46:24 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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