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Thanks to Ira Grupper for sending us this.

By C.M. LEWIS

Richard L. Trumka, long-time President of the AFL-CIO, has died, leaving a void previously filled by a giant of the movement—one once at the forefront of efforts to reform labor.

[TRIANGLE, VA] United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) International President Cecil E Roberts issued the following statement today.

By BERRY CRAIG

AFT Local 1360

“Richard Trumka lived and breathed union,” said Steve Earle, a UMWA veteran who knew the AFL-CIO president for more than 40 years.

From Bill Londrigan, Kentucky State AFL-CIO president: It is my sad duty to inform you of the passing of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka who died suddenly today.  President Trumka was a great friend and supporter of the Kentucky labor movement and vis

By JASON MORTON and GARY COSBY JR. 

They arrived by the busload.

From South Carolina and Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky; from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois and Virginia, they came to Tuscaloosa County.

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