Issue No 59 | 23 June 2000 | |
NewsAFL-CIO Leader to Address Congress
One of the leading union officials from the United States, AFL-CIO secretary-treasurer Richard Trumpka will be a keynote speaker at next week's ACTU Congress in Wollongong.
Trumpka was a key member of the Sweeney team which took over the AFL-CIO in 1995 - campaigning on a platform of the need to renew the American Labor Movement. At the time he was the leader of the United Mine Workers of America and in particulat was responsible for winning two landmark disputes for US labor - the Pittson dispute of 1989 and the Bituminous Coal Operators dispute of n1993. Central to his approach in these disputes was the need to involve the international labor movement in their struggle.
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