2011 Labor Leaders on Labor Award

Richard Trumka
President, AFL-CIO

Richard L. Trumka was president of the 12.5-million-member AFL-CIO from 2009 until his death on August 5, 2021. An outspoken advocate for social and economic justice, Trumka was the nation's clearest voice on the critical need to ensure that all workers have a good job and the power to determine their wages and working conditions. He led the labor movement's efforts to create an economy based on broadly shared prosperity and held elected officials and employers accountable to working families.