Check out a few news stories covering the endorsement:

AP: AFL-CIO Endorses Obama for President

National Journal: AFL-CIO Launches $53.4M, 24-State Effort for Obama

America's working families are that much closer to a future that includes passing the Employee Free Choice Act, affordable, universal health care and fair trade agreements.

Today, the AFL-CIO pledges to mobilize and educate our 10.5 million working men and women—and millions more union retirees and household members—as never before in our largest-ever political mobilization.

But as you know from the messages I have sent you throughout the year, we have already moved the ball down the field in an unprecedented way.  Sen. John McCain’s favorable ratings with union members have gone down 21 points. That did not happen by accident. Affiliates, state federations, central labor councils and area labor federations are reaching union members like never before—at the workplace, at meetings and at home.
Last month alone, we knocked on 42,000 doors as part of the AFL-CIO’s campaign to educate union households about McCain’s anti-labor and anti-working families record, specifically, regarding health care. This month, we focus on the Employee Free Choice Act and the Million-Member Mobilization.

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From now until Election Day, some 250,000 union volunteers will talk to their colleagues, neighbors and fellow union members about how Sen. Obama will turn around America and ensure that working families make their voices heard by voting in November.

With operations in every state and more than 500 communities, we will reach more than 13 million union voters in battleground states alone through one-on-one conversations at workplaces, by phone and in neighborhood canvasses, as well as through mail and e-mail.

The union vote will be the decisive factor in this election. Union household members make up about one in four voters, and they vote in their economic interest.

We have a tremendous amount of work to do and 131 days to do it in.

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This is our time. Let’s get to work!

In solidarity,
Karen Ackerman
Political Director
AFL-CIO