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Powerful U.S. Labor Leader Richard Trumka Dies

From NPR Updated August 5, 20212:12 PM ET  BENJAMIN SWASEY Twitter AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka is seen in 2019. The powerful labor leader has died. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Richard Trumka, the longtime head of the powerful AFL-CIO union and a close ally of Democratic Party leaders, has died. He was 72. President Biden called Trumka …

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