WORLD PEACE PRIZE DOUBLE SOLIDARITY PRESENTATION

Posted By: December 07, 2022

 

 
WORLD PEACE PRIZE DOUBLE SOLIDARITY PRESENTATION
To the Trumka Family and General President Christensen, IUEC
The World Peace Prize is honored to announce a Solidarity doubleheader——The Trumka Family will be posthumously presented
with the World Peace Prize For Solidarity at the event in which a top Labor leader will be presented with the re-named “Richard L. Trumka World Peace Prize For Solidarity.”
On January 5, 2023, Mrs. Barbara Trumka, wife of the late, beloved President Trumka, and their son Rich, Jr. will be presented with the World Peace Prize For Solidarity, which President Trumka had agreed to receive. And General President Frank Christensen, International Union of Elevator Constructors (IUEC), will be presented with the re-named “Richard L. Trumka World Peace Prize For Solidarity”—the very first recipient of this re-named Prize.
The Presentation Ceremony will take place on Thursday, January 5, 2023, from 12:30 PM to 4:30 PM in Martin’s West, 6817 Dogwood Road, Baltimore, MD 21244. The IUEC (410-953-6150) is in charge of the invitations to this free event. (All World Peace Prize presentations are free and are not fund-raisers).
Fr. Sean McManus, Chief Judge of the World Peace Prize and President of the Capitol Hill-based Irish National Caucus/Irish Peace Foundation explained: “The late, great President Trumka, God rest him, on February 3, 2016, at his AFL-CIO Headquarters, helped us to launch the World Peace Prize throughout the AFL-CIO and American Organized Labor—https://worldpeaceprizewashington.org/
He also had agreed to receive the World Peace Prize For Solidarity before his death. So, in loving memory, we have renamed the Solidarity Prize in his honor.
In President Trumka’s memory, we, also, refer to American Organized Labor as “Organized Love of Neighbor”—for without social justice there is no love of neighbor.
We are delighted that Mrs. Trumka and Rich, Jr. can join us for this special event and that we can posthumously present them with the World Peace Prize for Solidarity, which President Trumka had agreed to receive.”
The re-naming of the Solidarity Prize has been warmly welcomed by the Trumka Family: “… We are honored that Rich’s name will live on, always linked with solidarity and peace because the World Peace Prize for Solidarity will be re-named in his honor…”
President Liz Shuler, AFL-CIO, said: “Rich Trumka’s contributions to peace and prosperity around the world were countless. He was a global ambassador for worker rights, economic justice, dignity, and respect for all human beings. I can think of no one more deserving of this honor.”
Fr. McManus concluded: “This is truly a special event for the World Peace Prize. We are honoring the memory of the late, beloved President Trumka. And, we are presenting the Prize re-named in his honor to the great Frank Christensen, a most worthy recipient, and the General President of a great Union, IUEC. This double presentation will significantly and beautifully affirm the connection the World Peace Prize has made between Organized Labor and World Peace—a connection that President Trumka profoundly understood, and deeply appreciated. He continually thanked Barbara Flaherty, Chair of the World Peace Prize Presentation Ceremony, and me for making that connection, which meant the world to him. President Trumka knew his endorsement of the World Peace Prize would become an important part of his legacy. His family welcomes that part of his legacy, as does General President Christensen, and all good Labor people who see, as I do, American Organized Labor as Organized Love of Neighbor.”