Mr. Donahue, who started union organizing while in college in New York, rose to become of the power brokers of the AFL-CIO.
Mr. Donahue was a natural in the favor trading and bridge building of retail politics. He had insider credentials from heading labor-management relations as an assistant labor secretary from 1967 to 1969 under President Lyndon B. Johnson, who was urged by Meany to pick Mr. Donahue for the job.
Beyond the world of politics, Mr. Donahue distinguished himself as a theorist on the future of U.S. organized labor and global competition. He was part of a deep soul-searching within the labor movement during the Reagan era of the 1980s, as the percentage of union workers in the U.S. private-sector workforce began to drop sharply.
“I cannot exaggerate the depth of feeling on the issue,” Mr. Donahue said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “It burned very deeply.”with Canada and Mexico that took effect in 2020 to replace NAFTA and that made some changes to reflect the digital economy and push labor reforms in Mexico.“Donahue was a steward of the labor movement during a major transitional period,” said Lane Windham, associate director of Georgetown University’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor.
Mr. Donahue served as a Navy seaman just after World War II, then graduated from Manhattan College in 1949 with a degree in labor relations.While taking night-school classes at Fordham University’s law school — eventually getting his degree in 1956 — he had jobs including doorman at Radio City Music Hall.
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