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The nation's largest federation of unions announced Tuesday that they would be endorsing President Obama's reelection effort, an expected - but welcome - boost for the president's campaign.

The endorsement comes despite recent high-profile rifts between the administration and unions over the president's jobs council and Obama's move to delay construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.

"Although the labor movement has sometimes differed with the president and often pushed his administration to do more and do it faster, we have never doubted his commitment to working families," AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka said in a statement.

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