The winner of the AFL-CIO Presidential Candidates Forum was not any one of the candidates on stage Tuesday evening, but the 17,500 working men and women who turned out to Soldier Field to interview the next president of the United States.

The forum focused on the issues critical to working families and the middle class in America: good jobs, health care, retirement security, fair trade, the right to join a union, and education.

AFL-CIO top leaders decide to hold on endorsement 

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