Joe Biden wins AFL-CIO endorsement as organized labor targets working-class voters

The AFL-CIO, the country’s largest coalition of labor unions, endorsed Joe Biden for president Tuesday, with the organization’s top official vowing to wage an aggressive effort to help him defeat President Trump by reaching out to working-class voters.

Union officials cemented their support for the former vice president in a vote of the organization’s general board, joining a long roster of influential labor groups backing the presumptive Democratic nominee. In an interview with The Washington Post, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said his group will be “playing hard” in about a dozen battleground states where it plans to urge members to support his candidacy.

“Joe Biden has demonstrated his character,” said Trumka. “We look forward to helping him get elected president and changing the direction of the country.”

The endorsement highlights Biden’s consolidation of the support of union leaders in the past two months. The larger test, however, is how strongly the recent string of endorsements will motivate union members, some of whom have been drawn to Trump’s message or preferred other candidates to Biden in the primary.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/joe-biden-wins-afl-cio-endorsement/2020/05/26/5c657c70-9f61-11ea-81bb-c2f70f01034b_story.html

I don't think there will be too many union people drawn to Trump this time around.