Last night, I weighed in on the significance of NY Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s endorsement by the huge city workers local, AFSCME DC37. This morning, The New York Times runs with a front-page story main section story on the endorsement this morning, confirming the general perception that it is lights out for any of the Democrats running in the party primary. I don’t know who wins the primary now but it’s not worth much–other than raising ones profile and trying to run a campaign of ideas to avoid being crushed by Bloomberg.

And they add something else I had heard recently: SEIU’s 32BJ, which represents 60,000 janitors and building service workers, is likely to get on-board the Bloomberg election wagon pretty soon.

How bad is the Democratic Party when it cannot field a candidate who can garner the endorsements of the largest unions? And, as well, how bad is the labor movement when it can’t get its act together to try to speak with one voice and/or recruit and support a pro-labor candidate?