Two of America’s largest labor unions have joined forces and have announced a combined $88 million effort to fund Democrats in the upcoming midterm election cycle.

AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka has pledged to put more workers in the field than they did for either 2006 or 2008.

As the journal reports:

Most of the unions’ cash will be spent on behalf of Democrats, despite dissatisfaction among some union leaders and their members with the results of two years of Democratic control in Washington. While labor officials say unions haven’t received everything they’ve wanted from the administration, they blame Republicans and some Democrats for blocking legislative progress.

It is true that unions have not been happy with many Democrats over their inability to get the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) into law but unions have vested themselves in Democrats for 50 years so there is no looking back now, for sure.

The best the right can expect where unions are concerned is to hope that the leftist leadership of these organizations are unable to get enough ground troops out there to affect the election.

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