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The endorsement of the service employees, which with 1.9 million members is seen as the nation's most politically potent union, would be considered a special boon.

Mr. Obama also received the backing of the California chapter of the Service Employees International Union, the nation's most potent union.

A politically potent union has decided not to take sides in the Democratic presidential battle, at least for now, even though many of its leaders support John Edwards's presidential bid.

The service employees are the nation's most politically potent union, having spent more than $80 million in last year's political campaigns, and the nation's fastest growing, with nearly two million members, many of them janitors and health care workers.

But the service employees, the nation's most politically potent union, with more than 1.6 million members, also had some good news for the Democrats, saying it was gearing up a campaign to help defeat Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee.

His likely successor, Anna Burger, the union's secretary-treasurer and Mr. Stern's longtime No. 2, helped devise the strategies that made the service employees what many politicians say is the nation's most politically potent union, with the largest political action committee during the 2008 campaigns.

City Councilwoman Letitia James of Brooklyn has in her corner many of the city's most politically potent unions.

Not only does Mr. McEntee head one of the nation's largest, most politically potent unions, but he also serves as chairman of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s political committee and is a confidant of John Sweeney, the labor federation's president.

The education overhaul, which transfers power from the potent teachers' union to the federal government, proposes periodic teacher evaluations to determine appointments, salaries and dismissals — a major adjustment for workers who are accustomed to buying or inheriting their positions and who have had, until now, virtual immunity from the state.

Driven by the political muscle of retiring U.S. Sen. Harry Reid and Culinary, the state's most potent labor union, Nevada Democrats favored Clinton, seized a U.S. Senate seat and two congressional seats, and flipped the state Legislature.

The GI Bill, affirmative action, and strong unions all helped the "Greatest Generation" establish a potent and stable middle class -- and gave their children tangible hope for the future.