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AFL-CIO delays an endorsement

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From Times Wire Reports

The AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest federation of labor unions, has postponed making an endorsement in the Democratic presidential primaries, freeing its 55 unions to choose for themselves from the eight contenders.

“There is not a consensus candidate,” Karen Ackerman, political director of the AFL-CIO, said in Chicago, one day after the candidates tried to impress union leaders at a presidential forum.

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