Special edition: Remembering Richard Trumka

AFL-CIO president Rich Trumka died last Thursday. A heart attack did what no boss could: stilled the voice of a relentless champion of workers' rights. On today’s show, we’re highlighting a few of the Network’s shows that featured Rich Trumka.

On the State of the Unions podcast, from an episode released in late November 2018, Trumka talks about the midterm elections and a lot more, including an incredibly touching and revealing story about one of his first exposures to racism as a young boy.

Then, on the America’s Work Force Radio podcast’s Labor Day show from last year, Trumka tackles a raft of issues, from the effect of the pandemic on workers to the PRO Act, worker safety, the National Labor Relations Board and a whole lot more.

Finally, on Your Rights At Work, broadcast last Thursday, just an hour after learning about Trumka’s death, labor historian Joe McCartin discusses Trumka’s life and his legacy.

As you’ll hear from Joe, Richard Trumka loved history, and labor history especially. So, brother Trumka, on today’s Labor History in 2:00…the year was 1890.  That was the day that one of the heroines of the US labor movement, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, was born in Concord, New Hampshire.

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