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Organizations

• Congress of Industrial Organizations, a former United States trade union federation (also known as the Committee of Industrial Organization) that merged with the American Federation of Labor to form the AFL-CIO in 1955
• Central Intelligence Organisation, the secret police in Zimbabwe
• alternate acronym for the International Olympic Committee (French: Comité international olympique)
• Central Imagery Office, a predecessor organization of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

Titles within a company or other organization

• Chief investment officer, the head of investments, especially in an asset manager or institutional investor
• Chief information officer, the head of information technology
• Chief innovation officer, the head of innovation, responsible for innovation management
• Chief Immigration Officer, an operational grade (rank) in the UK Border Agency

Other uses

• Cry It Out, an aspect of the Ferberization technique for solving childhood sleep problems
• Concurrent Input/Output, a file systems feature introduced in JFS (file system) in May 2003

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Richard Trumka
Born	(1949-07-24) July 24, 1949 (age 62) Nemacolin, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Nationality	American
Occupation	Miner; Labor leader; Attorney/Litigator
Known for	President, United Mine Workers of America; Secretary-Treasurer, AFL-CIO; President, AFL-CIO
Union affiliation	United Mine Workers of America AFL-CIO
Strikes organized	against Peabody Coal in 1993 against the Pittston Coal Company in 1989

Richard Louis Trumka (born July 24, 1949)^[1] is an organized labor leader in the United States. He was elected President of the AFL-CIO on September 16, 2009, at the labor federation's convention in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.^[2] He served as the Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO, from 1995 to 2009, and prior to that was President of the United Mine Workers from 1982 to December 22, 1995. Mr. Trumka was named in Esquire Magazine's 2011 Americans of the Year.^[3]

Life and career[link]

Trumka was born in Nemacolin, Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh, to an Italian American mother,^[4] Eola Elizabeth (Bertugli), and a second-generation Polish American father, coal miner Frank Richard Trumka.^[1][5] He is a Roman Catholic.^[6] He went to work in the mines in 1968.^[5] He received a bachelor of science degree from Pennsylvania State University in 1971 and a law degree from Villanova University in 1974.^[1][7] He married Barbara Vidovich in 1982. They have one son.^[1][8]

National labor career[link]

From 1974 to 1979, Trumka was a staff attorney with the United Mine Workers at their headquarters in Washington, D.C.^[1] He was elected to the board of directors of UMWA District 4 in 1981 and became President of the United Mine Workers in 1982.^[1]

While President of the UMWA, Trumka led a successful nine-month strike against the Pittston Coal Company in 1989, which became a symbol of resistance against employer cutbacks and retrenchment for the entire labor movement.^[9] A major issue in the dispute was Pittston's refusal to pay into the industrywide health and retirement fund created in 1950. Trumka encouraged non-violent civil disobedience to confront the company and relied on a corporate campaign involving Wall Street investors.

The United Mine Workers conducted a nationwide strike against Peabody Coal in 1993. Trumka was asked to respond to the possibility that some coal companies might hire permanent replacement workers.^[10] He told the Associated Press in September 1993, "I'm saying if you strike a match and you put your finger in it, you're likely to get burned."^[11] He also said, "That doesn't mean I'm threatening to burn you. That just means if you strike the match, and you put your finger in it, common sense will tell you it'll burn your finger. Common sense will tell you that in these strikes, that when you inject scabs, a number of things happen. And a confrontation is one of the potentials that can happen. Do I want it to happen? Absolutely not. Do I think it can happen? Yes, I think it can happen."^[10] The Associated Press reported that he was not threatening violence, and noted that UMWA staff had spent "thousands of man hours trying to prevent anything from happening ... to our members or by our members."^[12]

Despite claims of non-violence by Trumka during the strike, a union coal miner, Jerry Dale Lowe, was eventually convicted in 1994 of killing Eddie York at a mine owned by the Arch Mineral Corporation. ^[13]

Besides his domestic labor activities, Trumka established an office that raised U.S. mineworker solidarity with the miners in South Africa while they were fighting apartheid.^[14] He further served as the U.S. Shell boycott chairman, which challenged the multinational Royal Dutch/Shell Group for its continued business dealings in South Africa. For these steps, Trumka received the 1990 Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award.

During his tenure as Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO, Trumka focused on creating investment programs for the pension and benefit funds of the labor movement, capital market strategies,^[15] and demanding corporate accountability to America's communities. He chaired the AFL-CIO Industrial Union Council, a consortium of manufacturing unions focusing on key issues in trade, health care and labor law reform. He co-chairs the China Currency Coalition, an alliance of industry, agriculture, services, and worker organizations whose stated mission is to support U.S. manufacturing.^[16]

But Trumka's tenure as Secretary-Treasurer was not without controversy. In 1996, Teamsters president Ron Carey was locked in a tight reelection battle with James P. Hoffa, son of disappeared Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa and a long-time Teamsters union attorney. Hoffa was also out-raising Carey in funds by more than 4-to-1, but the Carey campaign was convinced it could win if the campaign could bypass the local leadership (which supported Hoffa) and get his message directly to Teamsters members.^[17] Martin Davis, a Carey campaign consultant who owned The November Group (a direct-marketing company), allegedly contacted Trumka in the summer of 1996 and concocted a scheme whereby the Teamsters would donate $150,000 to the AFL-CIO for spurious get-out-the-vote efforts and the AFL-CIO would pay the same amount to Citizen Action (a liberal grassroots lobbying and organizing group).^[17] Citizen Action would then pay $100,000 to The November Group, which would use the cash to finance Carey's direct marketing effort.^[18][19][20] The alleged scheme was revealed on August 22, 1997, by a federal government official overseeing the Teamsters' election.^[20][21] The federal government overturned Carey's successful reelection, and ordered a new election.^[22] On November 17, 1997, a federal official disqualified Carey from seeking elective office in the union.^[18] Carey was indicted on federal perjury charges in January 2001,^[23] pled not guilty,^[24] and was found not guilty on all charges on October 12, 2001.^[25] Trumka invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination during the government's grand jury investigation and a congressional panel, but was never charged with any crimes.^[26][27][28] Although the AFL-CIO had a policy (enacted in the wake of several Teamsters' scandals in the late 1950s) appearing to require anyone who asserted their Fifth Amendment rights to be removed from office, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney wrote in a letter sent to AFL-CIO member unions in November 1997 that the AFL-CIO policy regarding assertion of Fifth Amendment rights had "never been applied by the federation".^[29] The letter went on to say that "The policy calls for removal only when the union determines that the Fifth Amendment is being invoked to conceal discovery of corruption. The AFL-CIO, as you know, has for some time been conducting its own internal inquiry and has no basis to conclude that there was any unlawful conduct by Secretary-Treasurer Trumka. ... It is clear that the policy does not apply."^[29] During testimony before a congressional subcommittee on April 30, 1998, Sweeney said that a December 1957 resolution adopted by the AFL-CIO amended the policy so that it would not be automatically invoked but rather applied only if the invocation of Fifth Amendment rights were used "as a shield to avoid discovery of corruption".^[27][30] The labor federation appeared satisfied that Trumka should not step down. After Trumka spoke to an executive session of the AFL-CIO Executive Board in January 1998, board members said their concerns about Trumka's involvement in the scandal had been alleviated.^[31] On April 30, 1998, Sweeney said no evidence had yet come to light indicating any wrongdoing by Trumka.^[27]

On July 1, 2008, Trumka delivered a speech attacking racism in the 2008 presidential election.^[5][32] A video ^[33] with an excerpt of the speech attracted more than 535,000 hits on YouTube as of July 1, 2009.^[5] Trumka's video was "surely the first YouTube moment in the history" of the labor movement.^[34]

Trumka was elected president of the AFL-CIO after the retirement of John Sweeney in 2009^[2] and president of the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD in May 2010.^[35]

References[link]

External links[link]

Organized labour portal

Media related to Richard Trumka at Wikimedia Commons

• AFL-CIO
• United Mine Workers of America
• Richard Trumka speech attacking racism in the 2008 presidential election
• The Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award

Milton Nascimento
Milton Nascimento performing.
Background information
Birth name	Milton Nascimento
Also known as	Bituca
Born	(1942-10-26) October 26, 1942 (age 69)
Origin	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil[1]
Genres	Música Popular Brasileira
Occupations	Singer, songwriter, guitarist
Instruments	Guitar
Years active	1962–present
Labels	Warner Music Brazil Sony Music Brazil Philips Records EMI Music Brazil Warner Bros. Records Blue Note/EMI Records Nonesuch/Elektra Records
Associated acts	Clube da Esquina

Milton Nascimento (Portuguese pronunciation: [miwˈtõ nasiˈmẽtu]; born October 26, 1942, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a prominent Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist.

Biography[link]

Nascimento's mother was the maid Maria Nascimento. As a baby, Milton Nascimento was adopted by his mother's former employers: the couple Josino Brito Campos, a banker employee, mathematics teacher and electronic technician; and Lília Silva Campos, a music teacher and choir singer. When he was 18 months old, Nascimento's biological mother died, and he moved with his adopted parents to the city of Três Pontas, in the state of Minas Gerais.

Nascimento was an occasional DJ on a radio station that his father once ran.^[2] He lived in the boroughs of Laranjeiras and Tijuca in Rio de Janeiro.

In the early stages of his career, Nascimento played in two samba groups: Evolussamba and Sambacana. In 1963, he moved to Belo Horizonte, where his friendship with Lô Borges led to the Clube da Esquina ("corner club") movement.^[3] Members included Beto Guedes, Toninho Horta, Wagner Tiso, and Flávio Venturini, with whom he shared compositions and melodies. One composition was "Canção do Sal", which was first interpreted by Elis Regina in 1966 and led to a television appearance with Nascimento.^[2] The collective, as well as some others, released Clube da Esquina in 1972. Several hit singles were also released.^[4]

Nascimento is famous for his falsetto and tonal range, as well for highly acclaimed songs such as "Maria, Maria", "Canção da América" ("Song from America"/"Unencounter"), "Travessia", "Bailes da Vida" and "Coração de Estudante" ("Student's Heart"). The lyrics remember the funeral of the student Edson Luís, killed by police officers in 1968. The song became the hymn for the Diretas Já social-political campaign in 1984, was played at the funeral of the late President of Brazil Tancredo Neves the next year, and was also played at Ayrton Senna's funeral.

While his reputation within Brazil was firmly established with his Clube da Esquina works, Nascimento's international breakthrough came with his appearance on jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter's 1974 album Native Dancer. This led to widespread acclaim, and collaborations with stars such as Paul Simon, Cat Stevens, George Duke and Quincy Jones and the band Earth, Wind and Fire. Angelus (1994) features appearances by Pat Metheny, Ron Carter, Herbie Hancock, Jack DeJohnette, Nana Vasconcelos, Jon Anderson, James Taylor, and Peter Gabriel. Through his friendship with guitarist Warren Cuccurullo, Nascimento came to work with the pop rock band Duran Duran in 1993. Nascimento co-wrote and performed the song "Breath After Breath", featured on the band's 1993 album Duran Duran.^[4] He also performed with the band in concert when they toured in Brazil in support of that album.

In 1996, Nascimento contributed the song "Dancing" to the AIDS-Benefit Album Red Hot + Rio produced by the Red Hot Organization.

In 2004, he worked with the Brazilian Heavy Metal band Angra, in the song "Late Redemption". The song is in the Temple Of Shadows album.^[5]

He is currently collaborating with Jason Mraz on the latter's upcoming album.

Discography[link]

References[link]

Sources[link]

• Motta, Nelson (2001) (in Portuguese). Noites Tropicais. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Objetiva. ISBN 85-7302-292-2. 
• Dolores, Maria. (2006) (in Portuguese). Travessia: A Vida De Milton Nascimento. RCB. 
• Mei, Giancarlo (2004). Canto Latino: Origine, Evoluzione e Protagonisti della Musica Popolare del Brasile. Viterbo, Italy: Stampa Alternativa-Nuovi Equilibri. 
• McGowan, Chris; Pessanha, Ricardo (1998). The Brazilian Sound: Samba, Bossa Nova and the Popular Music of Brazil (2nd ed. ed.). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press. ISBN 1-56639-545-3. 

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Milton Nascimento

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• Official site
• (Portuguese) Interview with Nascimento, 1988
• Milton Nascimento: 12 Essential Performances by Ted Gioia (jazz.com)