The general secretary of Unite - the UK's biggest trade union - is to offer financial support to Labour in the run-up to next year's general election.
Len McCluskey will tell the union's national conference that Labour offers the chance to improve jobs and reverse privatisation of health services.
The union has had a series of rows with Labour, but says the party needs enough money to end "mindless austerity".
The Conservatives called it the "same old Labour", dominated by unions.
Unite was one of a number of trade unions that were unhappy with reforms to the historic link with the Labour Party.
In April this year, Mr McCluskey warned Labour leader Ed Miliband - who introduced trade union reforms - that Unite could break its links with Labour if the party lost the next election.
He told reporters he could see the union voting to disaffiliate from a defeated Labour if it ceased to be the voice of working people.
However, in his speech to union members in Liverpool he is expected to say that he believes Labour needs to have enough funding to mount a strong campaign against the Conservative in May 2015's general election.
Writing in the Morning Star, Mr McCluskey said: "For our UK members, there can be no doubt that if a Tory government is returned to power in 2015, the mindless austerity that the coalition has inflicted upon our people will be but child's play; they have worse in store."
'Brave politics'Mr McCluskey said the 2015 election "will shape our destiny more than any other in recent times", adding that Labour "now has to decide which side of the divide it chooses to stand on".
"Ed Miliband has started on this, taking on the fuel price racket, promising a new era of housebuilding, a living wage to lift people out of poverty and social care fit for our elderly," he wrote.
However, he said nothing less than "bold, brave policies that will restore trust and fairness to our battered nation will be acceptable".
Unite is Labour's biggest donor but announced plans to cut the amount it pays the party in affiliation fees by half - to £1.5m - following reforms to the Labour-union funding link.
Mr Miliband's proposals for a "one member, one vote" system for leadership elections and an end to the automatic affiliation of union members were approved at a conference of party members this year.
The union has also been involved in rows with the party over allegations of the rigging of a Labour candidate selection by Unite in Falkirk, central Scotland, as well as Labour's support for public sector pay restraint.
Unite is also set to reveal whether its 70,000 members in local government in Wales, England and Northern Ireland have voted to take industrial action over pay.
The Unison and GMB unions have already held strike ballots, with members voting in favour of a one-day strike on 10 July in protest at a pay offer worth 1% for most workers.
Members of several major unions - including council workers, school support staff and teachers - have already voted to strike on 10 July.
More than a million public sector workers could walk out as part of a protest over government policy on cutting public sector costs and jobs.
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