[lbo-talk] Nader: Mom's Recipes, Dad's Sayings

Michael Pugliese michael098762001 at earthlink.net
Wed Dec 15 11:31:46 PST 2004


Correction on Trumka. Forgot he moved up to a AFL-CIO HQ position. http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/bus/A0850065.html
> ...Upon the death of Kennedy, W. A. (Tony) Boyle was elected (1963)
> president. Throughout the 1960s, Boyle was increasingly criticized by a
> portion of the rank and file membership. Dissidents rallied to the
> campaign of Joseph A. Yablonski in 1969, but Yablonski lost to Boyle. A
> few weeks later Yablonski was murdered. In 1972, Boyle and other top
> union officials were convicted of making illegal political contributions
> with union funds. In the same year a federal judge invalidated the 1969
> election, and Arnold Miller, a Yablonski supporter, defeated Boyle for
> the presidency. Miller immediately set about reforming the union by
> replacing Boyle appointees, stopping Boyle's pension, and reducing the
> salaries of union officials. In 1974 Boyle, charged with having ordered
> Yablonski's killing, was convicted of murder...

Richard Trumka became head of the union in 1982, and in 1989 the UMW reentered the AFL-CIO. When Trumka became secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO in 1995, Cecil E. Roberts, Jr., succeeded him as UMW president. -- Michael Pugliese



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