Great summary of the gathering storm leading up to this summer’s selection of the head of the AFL-CIO. Edsall’s article cites $147 million as the amount spent by organized labor in the last election cycle – this still understates the total since it doesn’t fully capture “in-kind” contributions (i.e. door-to-door canvassing, phone banks and the like by people on union salaries) but it gives an idea of the huge resources labor still brings to bear in political elections, notwithstanding its numerical “decline.”
