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Richard L. Trumka

Under Richard L. Trumka’s leadership, the AFL-CIO Capital Stewardship Program has promoted corporate governance reform, investment manager accountability, pro-worker investment strategies, international pension fund cooperation and trustee education and support. Trumka has been a key part of White House economic initiatives, starting in 1993, when President Clinton established the Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform and nominated Trumka to be a member of the commission.
Richard L. Trumka

President, AFL-CIO

On Sept. 16, 2009, Richard L. Trumka was elected president of the AFL-CIO by acclamation at the federation’s 26th Constitutional Convention in Pittsburgh. His election followed 14 years of service as Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO and built on his roots in the small coal mining communities of southwest Pennsylvania. He was elected the youngest Secretary-Treasurer in AFL-CIO history in 1995, as part of an insurgent campaign to reinvigorate the American labor movement. At the time of his election, Trumka was serving his third term as President of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA).

Under Trumka’s leadership, the AFL-CIO Capital Stewardship Program has promoted corporate governance reform, investment manager accountability, pro-worker investment strategies, international pension fund cooperation and trustee education and support. Trumka has been a key part of White House economic initiatives, starting in 1993, when President Clinton established the Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform and nominated Trumka to be a member of the commission.

Most recently, President Obama in 2009 named Trumka to the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board, chaired by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul A. Volcker.