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PITTSBURGH - Richard Trumka, who rose from the coal mines of Pennsylvania to the top ranks of the nation's labor movement, took the helm of the AFL-CIO on Wednesday, ushering in a more aggressive style of leadership and vowing to revive unions' sagging membership rolls.
The first new AFL-CIO president in 14 years, Trumka pledged to make the labor movement appeal to a new generation of workers who perceive unions as "only a grainy, faded picture from another time."See the full content of this document
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Trumka Takes Over As Head of the Afl-Cio
"We need a unionism that makes sense to the next generation - young women and...
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