Speaking To The Washington Post’s Peter Wallsten, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka Said He Has Conversations With President Obama And His Staff About His Potential Second Term Agenda. WALLSTEN:“Have you had specific conversations with President Obama about what his agenda in a second term might be?” TRUMKA: “We have, I have had conversations with the President and I have had conversations with his staff, his cabinet, about things of that sort, yeah.” (C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers,” 5/6/12)

• AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka Said That He Has “Conversations Every Day With Someone In The White House Or The Administration.” “‘I’m at the White House a couple times a week — two or three times a week,’ Trumka boasts in a new video posted by the Workforce Fairness Institute, a foe of organized labor. ‘I have conversations every day with someone in the White House or the administration. Every day,’ he adds. ‘And that includes weekends, by the way.’” (Michael O’Brien, “Video Seizes On Union Leader’s Boast Of Daily Contact With White House,” The Hill, 3/9/11)

·         AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka Has Been To The White House At Least 71 Times Since Obama’s Been In Office. (White House Visitor Access Records, www.whitehouse.gov, Accessed 5/7/12)