Reid thanks organized labor for re-election push

Sen. Harry Reid thanked organized labor for its help in getting him re-elected, in a call to the AFL-CIO executive council Tuesday in which he said "we still have a lot of unfinished business."

Mike Hall, a blogger for the AFL-CIO, posted a report on the conversation on the federation's website.   Reid, newly elected Sen. Joe Manchin. D-W.Va., and Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn called in to a post-election council meeting.

“We still have a lot of unfinished business and we are still in the majority," Reid said on the call. "We aren’t going to take a backseat to anybody on anything.”

In a morning-after analysis of the election last week, AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka said organized labor deserved some credit for Reid's victory, a point he repeated on Tuesday and that was seconded by Reid.

According to Hall, Reid said the union get-out-the-vote effort was "exemplary."

"We won by five-and-a-half points because the ground game we had in Nevada was exemplary… [and] the three issues I talked about incessantly—jobs, jobs and jobs….I wouldn’t be here in the Senate for this new term but for you," Reid said.