Richard Trumka

(Newser) - Fisher-Price is recalling parts of over 2 million infant swings across the US, Canada, and Mexico due to a serious suffocation risk, following reports of five infant deaths. The US Consumer Product Safety Commission warned that all models of Fisher-Price's Snuga Swings should never be used for sleep or...

(Newser) - The president of the AFL-CIO, Richard Trumka, has died. He was 72, and the cause of death was not immediately revealed. Trumka headed the powerful labor organization since 2009, when he moved up to the post from the next level down, secretary-treasurer, a job he’d had since 1995. Before...

(Newser) - President Trump got a somewhat non-traditional start to a president's typical Labor Day: An attack on the president of the nation's largest labor union federation. He tweeted : "Richard Trumka, the head of the AFL-CIO, represented his union poorly on television this weekend. Some of the things he...

(Newser) - America's top union official delivered a verbal slap to President Obama today, saying Obama has hopped aboard the Tea Party bandwagon while throwing jobs under the bus, reports Talking Points Memo. So it's decision time, says the AFL-CIO's Richard Trumka: Obama can buckle down on unemployment, or...