The national AFL-CIO voted Thursday to endorse Senator Barack Obama for president in the November election.

The endorsement throws the weight of the federation’s massive national grassroots mobilization capacity—with more than 13 million union voters in 24 priority states—to the Illinois senator. AFL-CIO President John Sweeney says Obama “has proven from his days as an organizer, to his time in the Senate and his historic run for the presidency, that he’s leading the fight to turn around America.”

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