AFL-CIO endorses Obama, launches info site

Just got this in my inbox--this is great news. An AFL-CIO endorsement will help bring out the labor voters to support Obama. The labor coalition has also created an info site at MeetObama08.org to introduce the labor population to Obama's issues re: the economy, trade, and worker's rights. (Note: the site redirects to an AFL-CIO-hosted issues page.)

More at the flip.

From the endorsement email I got from the Florida AFL-CIO this a.m.:

With 10.5 million members from every walk of life, the AFL-CIO has endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for president.

Barack Obama’s record demonstrates he is a champion for working families and his proposals will improve life for generations of working people and our children. Barack Obama says, "Politics didn’t lead me to working folks; working folks led me to politics." He was raised by a working mother and grandparents, worked as a community organizer in a Chicago neighborhood devastated by the closing of steel mills, fought for working families in the Illinois State Senate and earned a 98 percent AFL-CIO voting record as a U.S. senator.

Barack Obama is not someone who just talks the talk—he walks the walk with working families, on picket lines, in organizing campaigns and in bargaining for a better life.

As a relative of four firefighters, two police chiefs, and two state detectives, and as a freelance writer with works registered via the WGA (which is a subsidiary union of the AFL-CIO), I couldn't be more thrilled about the AFL-CIO's endorsement. Go Obama '08!