AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka Re-Elected to a Third Term

  • No one has challenged federation’s trio of top officers
  • Unions convene in St. Louis amid ongoing decline and new peril

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Union leaders gave AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka another four-year term to try to reverse the fortunes of the embattled U.S. labor movement.

Delegates at the labor federation’s national convention in St. Louis re-elected Trumka on Sunday. Trumka, Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler and Executive Vice President Tefere Gebre all ranBloomberg Terminal unopposed for new terms.