Gerald McEntee, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municiple Employees (AFSCME), the 1.4 million-member union that is the largest in the AFL-CIO, has told certain members of AFSCME's executive board that he will not run for re-election. McEntee has been heading AFSCME since 1981 and is the senior member of the AFL-CIO's executive council, as well as the longtime head of its political committee.
In an e-mail yesterday to members of his own executive council, AFSCME Indiana leader David Warrick wrote:
In September, 2009 Atlantic Monthly named 
