At his best and most useful

Richard Trumka (1949-2021)

Richard Trumka, long-time president of the AFL-CIO, has died of a heart attack at the age of 72. There is much to admire about Trumka’s career. He will be remembered in part for his failure to turn around the downward trajectory of the American labor movement, but that’s in part because people often don’t understand either how the labor movement works o…