The A.F.L.-C.I.O. voted to spend 40 million dollars in targeted races for 2006. This will be the most money ever spent by organized labor in a mid-term election and we’ll have to hope their efforts help.

Union leaders said they would concentrate their efforts on 15 Senate races, 40 House races and governors races in California, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

John Sweeney, the head of the A.F.L.-C.I.O insists that his union is nonpartisan but has also called President Bush the most antiworker president ever, citing his tax cuts favoring the wealthy and his efforts to revamp Social Security.

You can read more in the NYTimes…