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Vice President Joe Biden’s foreign policy credentials make it easy to overlook another key reason he was picked as Obama’s Veep: His brushes with personal tragedy and good relations with organized labor make him an effective populist messenger on domestic economic issues.

A White House official confirms that Biden will be addressing the AFL-CIO’s big meeting in Miami on Thursday, and labor officials expect him to detail the administration’s strategy for passing the Employee Free Choice Act, a measure to make it easier to unionize that is labor’s top priority.

Labor officials will be hoping to hear a sign from Biden that the administration is fully committed to Employee Free Choice and is preparing to act on it this year. Also, what Biden says will offer clues as to how effectively he’ll make the case for Employee Free Choice if, as seems possible, the White House will let him emerge as a front man for the administration on what promises to be one of the biggest fights of the cycle.

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