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RICHARD TRUMKA IN MEMORIAM

Labor Lost a Great One in Richard Trumka (Opinion)

The Wall Street Journal

By BERRY CRAIG

Sen. Mitch McConnell's signature is on the letter to a constituent, but it reads like a message from the late Mississippi Sen. James O. Eastland, an arch segregationist and fierce opponent of federal civil rights legislation.  

By E.J. DIONNE

Solidarity is a virtue we neither discuss nor practice enough. We hear a lot about compassion and empathy, and certainly need more of both. But solidarity is a deeper commitment, rooted in equality and mutuality.

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Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO president and ‘unequaled voice’ for workers, dies at 72

Thanks to Bill Londrigan for sending us this. 

The strike has inflamed tensions in the small community.

Thanks to our friend and Democratic activist Judy Tuggle of Mayfield for sending us this.

By CHARLES BOOKER