Labor Day 2011

Sept 5, 2011  - Video Link

Last year we worked together to pass a payroll tax cut and because of that, this year the average family has an extra $1,000 in their pocket. But that’s going to expire in a few months if we don’t come together to extend it. I think putting money back in the pockets of working families is the best way to get demand rising, because that then means business is hiring, and that means that the economy is growing.

"When I hear some of these folks trying to take collective bargaining  rights away, trying to pass so-called "right to work" laws for private  sector workers that really mean the right to work for less and  less and less when I hear some of this talk I know this is not about  economics.  This is about politics. And I want everybody here to know, as long as I'm in the White House I'm going to stand up for collective bargaining."

"If you want to know who helped lay these cornerstones of an American middle class you just have to look for the union label."

Republicans in Washington and Columbus are not only making war on organized labor but the middle class itself.  The battles labor won not only raised the standards of labor but for everyone. - V.P. Joe Biden, Cincinnati Labor Day picnic Monday at Coney Island.

Transcript: Teamsters Jim Hoffa's speech on Labor Day - Link