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Gómez was the 2011 recipient of the AFL-CIO’s prestigious International Meany-Kirkland Human Rights Award, and in the same year, he was nominated for the Edelstam Prize and the Arthur Svensson International Prize for Trade Union Rights. He is also a member of the executive committee of IndustriALL Global Union, the world’s most powerful union organization. He works closely with leaders of unions around the world, including the United Steelworkers Union of North America.
Napoleón is a hero, because every day he fights for the lives and welfare of the Mexican workers and their families.
— RICHARD TRUMKA, PRESIDENT OF THE AFL-CIO