Kamala Harris LIVE: Harris Speaks with Union Members at Labor Day Campaign Event in Detroit | N18G

oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] n yeah [Music] [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] [Applause] sh [Music] [Music] good afternoon [Applause] Detroit so if you don't know who I am my name is Tyrese West I'm a proud member of Labor's International Union of North America [Applause] and I'm here because I believe that we have to elect KLA Harris as our next president now for the past six years I've worked with Luna to provide training for Di group diverse groups of members of my union in the Metro Detroit area so I'm a proud member of the union and I think it's beneficial that we help our union members um I've done so by helping get all of my students an opportunity to have good paying union jobs across the [Applause] state and the thing is that's why the stakes are so high right now um my students have opportunities to work because of leaders like KLA Harris um we are committed to ensuring folks uh like you and I have access to a union when it comes to lifting the middle class she doesn't just talk to talk she walks to [Applause] walk unlike other people like Donald [Applause] Trump now let me tell you what it's like being a union member under Donald Trump he told us he wouldn't allow factories to shut down and and then guess what happened factories across Michigan closed their doors Tom said he was going to protect our jobs and then lost nearly 300,000 jobs on his watch including more than 30,000 of these manufacturing [Music] jobs and then with the project 2025 agenda it will give him power to go after the right to organize and it would try to dismantle our unions and then make life even more expensive for us so that's the choice we're looking at in November we have him and we have KLA [Applause] Harris and unlike Trump she doesn't have a massive wealth she understands the dignity Dignity of work she understands what we fight for and she's laser focused on building up the middle class because that's where she comes from w [Applause] with kamla Harris as the vice president we've passed the biggest in infrastructure bill in Generations which created millions of good paying union jobs we've seen Auto jobs return to the state in fact under her leadership we've gained more than 420,000 jobs including 25,000 of those manufacturing jobs [Applause] it was kamla Harris who helped pass the tying vote to save pensions for our workers and as union members we all need those [Applause] pensions kamla Harris is a fighter for the people and that's been true her entire career vice vice president Harris is fighting for the future of every working worker to join a union and bargain for better wages better benefits and Better Lives the Harris walls Administration will work with Congress to pass the proa and when it reaches the vice president's desk she will sign [Applause] it so to sum it up there is only one candidate on the ballot for president who has the backs of the working people in Michigan and we now have to have her back now I'm I am proud to welcome her to the stage a true Fighter for us everyone vice president kamla Harris [Music] Meed I needed to I'm great CH about myself let my fre R in hell hey I'mma keep running cuz wi don't quit on themselves 10 hell mares I meditate for practice Channel 9 News tell me I'm moving back with eight blacks left de around the corner seven six heading in my direction 5 a hi everyone [Applause] good afternoon Detroit oh it's good to be in the house of Labor can we hear for [Applause] Tyrese tyres I want to thank you for your extraordinary leadership and all of your words and the heart and soul that you put into your work like I know all the members of Luna and everyone here does every day because we love our country and we know it is at stake thank you tyr thank you so it is so good to be with so many incredible leaders and elected officials who are here Governor Whitmer was here earlier senator staban now your next United States Senator representative Elisa slin [Applause] and I always want to thank representatives dingles there is she there she there she is stepen stinar all of you for the work that you do every day and to all the labor leaders who are here I thank you all for your extraordinary work don't we love Labor Day we love Labor Day it's always been that way right the way way we celebrate Labor Day is we know that hard work is good work we know that when we organize when we bring everyone together it's a joyful moment where we are committed to doing the hard work of lifting up America's families and I want to thank everyone here for that work and the way you do it every day including General president Booker of the [Applause] laborers president Fain of UAW president Pringle of Nea president s of the utility workers and president Wine Garden of the AFT and thank you to all of the union members who are here this afternoon so on Labor Day and every day we celebrate the Dignity of work the Dignity of work we celebrate unions because unions helped build America and unions helped build America's middle class it is true across our nation and it is true here in Detroit nearly 140 years ago in this very City 10,000 people marched in one of our nation's first Labor Day [Music] parades many held signs that read divided we can beg united we can demand for Generations in Detroit and across our nation the brothers and sisters of labber have stood together to righteously demand Fair pay better benefits and safe working conditions and let me say every person in our nation has benefited from that [Applause] work everywhere I go I tell people look you may not be a union member you better thank a union member for the 5 day work week you better thank a union member for sick leave you better thank a Union member for paid leave you better thank a union member for vacation time because what we know is when union wages go up everybody's wages go up when Union workplaces are safer every workplace is safer when unions are strong America is strong we know what we're talking about the labor movement has always understood the power of the collective and the power of unity the power of unity and while we are fighting so much nonsense that is about trying to divide our country trying to pull us apart look to what the history and the present of Labor tells us about the power of the collective and unity the spirit of that work as much as the product of that work is very telling and gives us really good lessons about what creates strength and you know many of you know my parents met while they were at active in the Civil Rights Movement so when I was young my parents I see some young leaders here today when I was young my parents would take me to the meetings I see our young leaders and and and take me to the marches I was in a stroller and from a very young age I learned that when people stand together when we join voices knowing that the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us when we join those voices we can drive extraordinary change which is why I believe in my heart and soul no one should ever be made to fight alone we are all in this together we are all in this together [Applause] but I'll tell you I think that there has been a certain backward thinking approach over the last several years which is to suggest some folks them folks to suggest that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down instead of what we know the true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up who you lift up that's the measure of the strength of a leader let's stop with the nonsense and in this election we all here know there are two very different Visions for our nation ours focused on the future the other focused let's just get through the next 64 days [Applause] H and ours yes my dear brother is focused on the future and theirs is focused on the past and we fight for the future we fight for a future where all people receive dignity and respect and opportunity for not just for some but for all that's what we are fighting for and so we are 64 days out from the election day and in Michigan mail and absentee voting starts in 24 days 24 [Applause] days so this election this election and our fight is a fight for the promise of America a promise I love you and ours is a fight for the promise the promise of America a promise of freedom of opportunity and Justice not just for some but for all but what we know is as we fight to move our nation forward Donald Trump intends to pull us back to the past but we're not going back we are not going back we're not going back we're not going back we not going so andless and and and we know we know what that would look like right so intends to pull us back including back to a time before workers had the freedom to organize as President we will always remember Donald Trump blocked overtime benefits from millions of workers Tyrese talked a bit about this and opposed efforts to raise the minimum wage he appointed Union Busters to the National Labor Relations Board and he supported so-called right to work laws and well here's the thing here's the thing we have a choice here right and and we're not going back because we also know that if Donald Trump were reelected he intends to give tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations he intends to cut Social Security and Medicare he wants to impose what in effect is a national sales tax on everyday products and basic necessities that will cost an economist of said this that will cost a typical American Family almost $4,000 a year he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act and take us back to a time in our country which most of us remember when insurance companies you remember had the power to deny people coverage based on a pre-existing condition remember that deny people the children who had asthma a surviv of breast cancer a grandparent with diabetes look America has tried those failed policies before and they are failed policies and we are not going back we are not going back we are not going back and instead and instead we fight for a future a future where no person has to go broke just cuz they got sick and so when I am President we will continue to strengthen the Affordable Care Act we will bring down the cost of prescription drugs not only for some but for all [Applause] Americans we we fight for a future where every worker has the freedom to organize [Applause] and so when I am President we will pass the pro act and end union busting once and for all and I'll remind everybody on all these bills we got to elect the Congress who supports that to be able to actually get that work done we fight for future where every person has the opportunity not just to get by but to get ahead and so when I am President we will continue to build what I call an opportunity economy so that every American has an opportunity to own a home to start a business to build intergenerational wealth for their fam we fight for a future where every senior can retire with dignity and so when I am President we will continue to defend Social Security Medicare and pensions just like we have [Applause] done 64 days 64 days the most important election of our lives and probably one of the most important in the life of our nation and here's what I'd say to all the brothers and sisters assembled we know this is going to be a very tight race to the very end we know we know and I got your back but I'm telling you we know how they play we know what they do so let's not pay too much attention to the polls let's know like labor always does we are out here running like we are the underdog in this race because we know what we are fighting for we know what we stand for and that's why we know what we fight for and we got some hard work ahead of us but again we all like hard work cuz hard work is good [Applause] work and to do that hard work I'm going to count on everyone here all the leaders here for your work we organizing knocking on doors and getting folks to the polls cuz put bluntly Michigan y'all know how to win you know how to win you know how to win so today I ask Detroit Michigan are you ready to have your voices heard do we believe in Freedom do we believe in Opportunity do we believe in the promise of America and are we ready to fight for it and when we fight we win God bless you Detroit oh it's good to be in the house of Labor can we hear for [Applause] Tyrese tyres I want to thank you for your extraordinary leadership and all all of your words and the heart and soul that you put into your work like I know all the members of Luna and everyone here does every day because we love our country and we know it is at stake thank you tyr thank you so it is so good to be with so many incredible leaders and elected officials who are here Governor Whitmer was here earlier senator staban now your next United States Senator representative Elisa slin and I always want to thank Representatives dingles where is she there she there she is Step stinar all of you for the work that you do every day and to all the labor leaders who are here I thank you all for your extraordinary work don't we love Labor Day we love Labor Day it's always been that way right the way we celebrate Labor Day is we know that hard work is good work we know that when we organize when we bring everyone together it's a joyful moment where we are committed to doing the hard work of lifting up America's families and I want to thank everyone here for that work and the way you do it every day including General president Booker of the labors president Fain of UAW president Pringle of Nea president s of the utility workers and president weine Garden of the AFT and thank you to all of the union members who are here this afternoon so on Labor Day and every day we celebrate the Dignity of work yes the Dignity of work we celebrate unions because unions helped build America and unions helped build America's middle class it is true across our nation and it is true here in Detroit nearly 104 40 years ago in this very City 10,000 people marched in one of our nation's first Labor Day [Music] parades many hell signs that read divided we can beg united we can demand for Generations in Detroit and across our nation the brothers and sisters of lab have stood together to righteously demand Fair pay better benefits and safe working conditions and let me say every person in our nation has benefited from that [Applause] work everywhere I go I tell people look you may not be a union member you better thank a union member for the 5 day work week you better thank a union member for sick leave you better thank a union member for paid leave you better thank a union member for vacation time because what we know is when union wages go up everybody's wages go up when Union workplaces are safer every workplace is safer when unions are strong America is strong we know what we're talking about the labor movement has always understood the power of the collective and the power of unity the power of unity and while we are fighting so much nonsense that is about trying to divide our country trying to pull us apart look to what the history and the present of Labor tells us about the power of the collective and unity the spirit of that work as much as the product of that work is very telling and gives us really good Lon lessons about what creates strength and you know many of you know my parents met while they were active in the Civil Rights Movement so when I was young my parents I see some young leaders here today when I was young my parents would take me to the meetings I see our young leaders and and and take me to the marches I was in a stroller and from a very young age I learned that when people stand together when we join voices knowing that the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us when we join those voices we can drive extraordinary change which is why I believe in my heart and soul no one should ever be made to fight alone we are all in this together we are all in this [Applause] together but I'll tell you I think that there has been a certain backward thinking approach over the last several years which is to suggest some folks them folks to suggest that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down instead of what we know the truth true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up who you lift up that's the measure of the strength of a leader let's stop with the nonsense and in this election we all here know there are two very different Visions for our nation ours focused on the future the other focused let's just get through the next 64 [Applause] days and ours yes my dear brother is focused on the future and theirs is focused on the past and we fight for the future we fight for a future where all people receive dignity and respect and opportunity for not just for some but for all that's what we are fighting for and so we are 64 days out from the election day and in Michigan mail and absentee voting starts in 24 days 24 [Applause] days so this election this election and our fight is a fight for the promise of America America a promise I love you and ours is a fight for the promise the promise of America a promise of freedom of opportunity and Justice not just for some but for all but what we know is as we fight to move our nation forward Donald Trump intends to pull us back to the past but we're not going back we are not going back we're not going back we not going we going we going so andless and and and we know we know what that would look like right so intends to pull us back including back to a time before workers had the freedom to organize as President we will always remember Donald Trump blocked overtime benefits from millions of workers Tyrese talked a bit about this and opposed efforts to raise the minimum wage he appointed Union Busters to the National Labor Relations Board and he supported so-called right to work laws and here's the thing here's the thing we have a choice here right and and we're not going back because we also know that if Donald Trump were reelected he intends to give tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations he intends to cut Social Security and Medicare he wants to impose what in effect is a national sales tax on everyday products and basic necessities that will cost an economist have said this that will cost a typical American Family almost $4,000 a year he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act and take us back to a time in our country which most of us remember when insurance companies you remember had the power to deny people coverage based on a pre-existing condition remember that deny people children who had asthma a survivor of breast cancer a grandparent with diabetes look America has tried those failed policies before and they are failed policies and we are not going back we are not going back we are not going back and instead and instead we fight for a future a future where no person has to go broke just cuz they got sick and so when I am President we will continue to strengthen the Affordable Care Act we will bring down the cost of prescription drugs not only for some but for all [Applause] Americans we we fight for future where every worker has the freedom to [Applause] organize and so when I am President we will pass the proa and end union busting once and for all and I'll remind everybody on all these bills we got to elect the Congress who supports that to be able to actually get that work done we fight for a future where every person has the opportunity not just to get by but to get ahead and so when I am President we will continue to build what I call an opportunity economy so that every American has an opportunity to own a home to start a business to to build intergenerational wealth for their fam we fight for a future where every senior can retire with dignity and so when I am President we will continue to defend Social Security Medicare and pensions just like we have done [Applause] [Applause] 64 days 64 days the most important election of our lives and probably one of the most important in the life of our nation and here's what I'd say to all the brothers and sisters assembled we know this is going to be a very tight race to the very end we know we know and I got your back but I'm telling you we know how they play we know what they do so let's not pay too much attention to the polls let's know like labor always does we are out here running like we are the underdog in this race because we know what we are fighting for we know what we stand for and that's why we know what we fight for [Applause] and we got some hard work ahead of us but again we all like hard work cuz hard work is good [Applause] work and to do that hard work I'm going to count on everyone here all the leaders here for your work for your organizing knocking on doors and getting folks to the polls cuz put bluntly Michigan y'all know how to win you know how to win you know how to win so today I ask Detroit Michigan are you ready to have your voices heard do we believe in Freedom do we believe in Opportunity do we believe in the promise of America and all we ready to fight for it and when we fight we win God bless you good afternoon Detroit oh it's good to be in the house of Labor can we hear for [Applause] Tyrese tyres I want to thank you for for your extraordinary leadership and all of your words and the heart and soul that you put into your work like I know all the members of Luna and everyone here does every day because we love our country and we know it is at stake thank you tyr thank you so it is so good to be with so many incredible leaders and elected officials who are here Governor Whitmer was here earlier senator staban now [Applause] your next United States Senator representative Elisa [Applause] sloin and I always want to thank representatives dingles there where is she there she there she is stepen stinar all of you for the work that you do every day and to all the labor leaders who are here I thank you all for your extraordinary work don't we love Labor Day we we love Labor Day it's always been that way right the way we celebrate Labor Day is we know that hard work is good work we know that when we organize when we bring everyone together it's a joyful moment where we are committed to doing the hard work of lifting up America's families and I want to thank everyone here for that work and the way you do it every day including General president Booker of the laborers president Fain of UAW president Pringle of Nea president s of the utility workers and president Wine Garden of the AFT and thank you to all of the union members who are are here this afternoon so on Labor Day and every day we celebrate the Dignity of work the Dignity of work we celebrate unions because unions helped build America and unions helped build America's middle class it is true across our nation and it is true here in Detroit nearly 140 years ago in this very City 10,000 people marched in one of our nation's first Labor Day [Music] parades many held signs that read divided we can beg united we can demand for Generations in Detroit and across our nation the brothers and sisters of Labor have stood together to righteously demand Fair pay better benefits and safe working conditions and let me say every person in our nation has benefited from that [Applause] work everywhere I go I tell people look you may not be a union member you better thank a union member for the 5 day work week you better thank a union member for sick leave you better thank a union member for paid leave you better thank a union member for vacation time because what we know is when union wages go up everybody's wages go up when Union workplaces are safer every workplace is safer when unions are strong America is strong we know what we're talking about the labor movement has always understood the power of the collective and the power power of unity the power of unity and while we are fighting so much nonsense that is about trying to divide our country trying to pull us apart look to what the history and the present of Labor tells us about the power of the collective and unity the spirit of that work as much as the product of that work is very telling and gives us really good lessons about what creates strength and you know many of you know my parents met while they were active in the Civil Rights Movement so when I was young my parents I see some young leaders here today when I was young my parents would take me to the meetings I see our young leaders and and and take me to the marches I was in a stroller and from a very young age I learned that when people stand to together when we join voices knowing that the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us when we join those voices we can drive extraordinary change which is why I believe in my heart and soul no one should ever be made to fight alone we are all in this together we are all in this [Applause] together but I'll tell you I think that there has been a certain backward thinking approach over the last several years which is to suggest some folks them folks to suggest that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down instead of what we know the true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up who you lift up that's the measure of the strength of a leader let's stop with the nonsense and in this election we all here know there are two very different Visions for our nation ours focused on the future the other focused let's just get through the next 64 days h [Applause] on and ours yes my dear brother is focused on the future and theirs is focused on the past and we fight for the future we fight for a future where all people receive dignity and respect an opportunity for not just for some but for all that's what we are fighting for and so we are 64 days out from the election day and in Michigan mail and absentee voting starts in 24 days 24 [Applause] days so this election this election and our fight is a fight for the promise of America a promise I love you and ours is a fight for the promise the promise of America a promise of freedom of opportunity and Justice not just for some but for all but what we know is as we fight to move our nation forward Donald Trump intends to pull us back to the past but we're not going back we are not going back we're not going back we not going back we not going so andless and and and we know we know what that would look like right so intends to pull us back in including back to a time before workers had the freedom to organize as President we will always remember Donald Trump blocked overtime benefits from millions of workers Tyrese talked a bit about this and opposed efforts to raise the minimum wage he appointed Union Busters to the National Labor Relations Board and he supported so-called right to work laws and well here's the thing here's the thing we have a choice here right and and we're not going back because we also know that if Donald Trump were reelected he intends to give tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations he intends to cut Social Security and Medicare he wants to impose what in effect is a national sales tax on everyday products and basic necessities that will cost an economist have said this that will cost a typical American Family almost $4,000 a year he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act and take us back to a time in our country which most of us remember when insurance companies you remember had the power to deny people coverage based on on a pre-existing condition remember that deny people children who had asthma a survivor of breast cancer a grandparent with diabetes look America has tried those failed policies before and they are failed policies and we are not going back we are not going back we are not going back and instead and instead we fight for a future a future where no person has to go broke just cuz they got sick and so when I am President we will continue to strengthen the Affordable Care Act we will bring down the cost of prescription drugs not only for some but for all [Applause] Americans we we fight for a future where every worker has the freedom to [Applause] organize and so when I am President we will pass the pro act and end union busting once and for all and I'll remind everybody on all these bills we got to elect the Congress who supports that to be able to actually get that work done we fight for a future where every person has the opportunity not just to get by but to get ahead and so when I am President we will continue to build what I call an opportunity economy so that every American has an opportunity to own a home to start a business to build intergenerational wealth for their family we fight for a future where every senior can retire with dignity and so when I am President we will continue to defend Social Security Medicare and pensions just like we have done [Applause] 64 days 64 days the most important election of our lives and probably one of the most important in the life of our nation and here's what I'd say to all the brothers and sisters assembled we know this is going to be a very tight race to the very end we know we know and I got your back but I'm telling you we know how they play we know what they do so let's not pay too much attention to the polls let's know like labor always does we are out here running like we are the underdog in this race because we know what we are fighting for we know what we stand for and that's why we know what we fight [Applause] for and we got some hard work ahead of us but again we all like hard work cuz hard work is good [Applause] work and to do that hard work I'm going to count on everyone here all the leaders here for your work you're organizing knocking on doors and getting folks to the pole cuz put bluntly Michigan y'all know how to win you know how to win you know how to win so today I ask Detroit Michigan are you ready to have your voices heard do we believe in Freedom do we believe in Opportunity do we believe in the promise of a man America and are we ready to fight for it and when we fight we win God bless you good afternoon Detroit oh it's good to be in the house of Labor can we hear from Tyrese [Applause] tyes I want to thank you for your extraordinary leadership and all of your words and the heart and soul that you put into your work like I know all the members of Luna and everyone here does every day because we love our country and we know it is at stake thank you Ty thank you so it is so good to be with so many incredible leaders and elected officials who are here Governor Whitmer was here earlier senator staban now your next United States Senator representative Elisa slen and I always want to thank representatives dingles there where is she there she there she is stepen stinar all of you for the work that you do every day and to all the labor leaders who are here I thank you all for your extraordin AR work don't we love Labor Day we love Labor Day it's always been that way right the way we celebrate Labor Day is we know that hard work is good work we know that when we organize when we bring everyone together it's a joyful moment where we are committed to doing the hard work of lifting up America's families and I want to thank everyone here for that work and the way you do it every day including General president Booker of the [Applause] laborers president Fain of UAW president Pringle of Nea president seven of the utility workers and president Wine Garden of the AFT and thank you to all of the union members who are here this afternoon so on Labor Day and every day we celebrate the Dignity of work the Dignity of work we celebrate unions because unions helped build America and unions helped build America's middle class it is true across our nation and it is true here in Detroit nearly 140 years ago in this very City 10,000 people marched in one of our nation's first Labor Day [Music] parades many Health signs that read divided we can beg united we can demand for gener s in Detroit and across our nation the brothers and sisters of Labor have stood together to righteously demand Fair pay better benefits and safe working conditions and let me say every person in our nation has benefited from that [Applause] work everywhere I go I tell people look you may not be a union member you better think of Union member for the 5 day work week you better thank a union member for sick leave you better thank a union member for paid leave you better thank a union member for vacation time because what we know is when union wages go up everybody's wages go up when Union workplaces are safer every workplace is safer when unions are strong America is strong we know what we're talking about the labor movement has always understood the power of the collect Ive and the power of unity the power of unity and while we are fighting so much nonsense that is about trying to divide our country trying to pull us apart look to what the history and the present of Labor tells us about the power of the collective and unity the spirit of that work as much as the product of that work is very telling and gives us really good lessons about what creates strength and you know many of you know my parents met while they were active in the Civil Rights Movement so when I was young my parents I see some young leaders here today when I was young my parents would take me to the meetings I see our young leaders and and and take me to the marches I was in a stroller and from a very young age I learned that when people stand together when we join voices knowing that the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us when we join those voices we can drive extraordinary change which is why I believe in my heart and soul no one should ever be made to fight alone we are all in this together we are all in this [Applause] together but I'll tell you I think that there has been a certain backward thinking approach over the last several years which is to suggest some folks them folks to suggest that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down instead of what we know the true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up who you lift up that's the measure of the strength of a leader let's stop with the nonsense and in this election we all here know there are two very different visions for our nation ours focused on the future the other focused let's just get through the next 64 days h [Applause] on and ours yes my dear brother is focused on the future and theirs is focused on the past and we fight for the future we fight for a future where all people receive d it and respect and opportunity for not just for some but for all that's what we are fighting for and so we are 64 days out from the election day and in Michigan mail and absentee voting starts in 24 days 24 [Applause] days so this election this election in our fight is a fight for the promise of America a promise I love you and ours is a fight for the promise the promise of America a promise of freedom of opportunity and Justice not just for some but for all but what we know is as we find fight to move our nation forward Donald Trump intends to pull us back to the past but we're not going back we are not going back we're not going back so and let's and and and we know we know what that would look like right so intends to pull us back including back to a time before workers had the freedom to organize as President we will always remember Donald Trump blocked overtime benefits from millions of workers Tyrese talked a bit about this and opposed efforts to raise the minimum wage he appointed Union Busters to the National Labor Relations Board and he support Ed so-called right to work laws and well here's the thing here's the thing we have a choice here right and and we're not going back because we also know that if Donald Trump were reelected he intends to give tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations he intends to cut Social Security and Medicare he wants to impose what in effect is a national sales tax on everyday products and basic necessities that will cost an economist have said this that will cost a typical American Family almost $4,000 a year he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act and take us back to a time in our country which most of us remember when insurance companies you remember had the power to deny people coverage based on a pre-existing condition remember that deny people children who had asthma a survivor of breast cancer a grandparent with diabetes look America has tried those failed policies before and they are failed policies and we are not going back we are not going back we are not going and instead and instead we fight for a future a future where no person has to go broke just cuz they got sick and so when I am President we will continue to strengthen the Affordable Care Act we will bring down the cost of prescription drugs not only for some but for all Americans we we fight for a future where every worker has the freedom to [Applause] organize and so when I am President we will pass the pro act and and union busting once and for all and I'll remind everybody on all these bills we got to elect the Congress who supports that to be able to actually get that work done we fight for a future where every person has the opportunity not just to get by but to get ahead and so when I am President we will continue to build what I call an opportunity economy so that every American has an opportunity to own a home to start a business to build intergenerational wealth for their family we fight for a future where every senior can retire with dignity and so when I am President we will continue to defend Social Security Medicare and pensions just like we have done [Applause] 64 days 64 days the most important election of our lives and probably one of the most important in the life of our nation and here's what I'd say to all the brothers and sisters assembled we know this is going to be a very tight race to the very end we know we know and I got your back but I'm telling you we know how they play we know what they do so let's not pay too much attention to the polls let's know like labor always does we are out here running like we are the underdog in this race because we know what we are fighting for we know what we stand for and that's why we know what we fight for and we got some hard work ahead of us but again we all like hard work cuz hard work is good [Applause] work and to do that hard work I'm going to count on everyone here all the leaders here for your work for your organizing knocking on doors and getting folks to the polls cuz put bluntly Michigan y'all know how to win you know how to win you know how to win so today I ask Detroit Michigan are you ready to have your voices heard do we believe in Freedom do we believe in Opportunity do we believe in the promise of America and are we ready to fight for it and when we fight we win God bless you good afternoon Detroit oh it's good to be in the house of Labor can we hear for Tyres [Applause] tyres I want to thank you for your extraordinary leadership and all of your words and the heart and soul that you put into your work like I know all the members of Luna and everyone here does every day because we love our country and we know what is at stake thank you tyr thank you so it is so good to be with so many incredible leaders and elected officials who are here here Governor Whitmer was here earlier senator staban now your next United States Senator representative Elisa slin and I always want to thank representatives dingles there where is she there she there she is Step stinar all of you for the work that you do every day and to all the labor leaders who are here I thank you all for your extraordinary work don't we love Labor Day we love Labor Day it's always been that way right the way we celebrate Labor Day is we know that hard work is good work we know that when we organize when we bring everyone together it's a joyful moment where we are committed to doing the hard work of lifting up America's families and I want to thank everyone here for that work and the way you do it every day including General president Booker of the [Applause] labors president Fain of UAW president Pringle of Nea president s of the utility workers and president wi Garden of the aft and thank you to all of the union members who are here this afternoon so on Labor Day and every day we celebrate the Dignity of work the Dignity of work we celebrate unions because unions helped build America and unions helped build America's middle class it is true across our nation and it is true here in Detroit nearly 140 years ago in this very City 10,000 people marched in one of our nation's first Labor Day [Music] parades many Health signs that read divided we can beg united we can demand for Generations in Detroit and across our nation the brothers and sisters of Labor have stood together to righteously demand Fair pay better benefits and safe working conditions and let me say every person in our nation has benefited from that [Applause] work everywhere I go I tell people look you may not be a union member you better thank a union member for the 5 day work week you better thank a union member for sick leave you better thank a union member for paid leave you better thank a union member for vacation time because what we know is when union wages go up everybody's wages go up when Union workplaces are safer every workplace is safer when unions are strong America is strong we know what we're talking about the labor movement has always understood the power of the collective and the power of unity the power of unity and while we are fighting so much nonsense that is about trying to divide our country trying to pull us apart yes look to what the history and the present of Labor tells us about the power of the collective inunity the spirit of that work as much as the product of that work is very telling and gives us really good lessons about what creates strength and you know many of you know my parents met while they were active in the Civil Rights Movement so when I was young my parents I see some young leaders here today when I was young my parents would take me to the meetings I see our young leaders and and and take me to the marches I was in a stroller and from a very young age I learned that when people stand together when we join voices knowing that the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us when we join those voices we can drive extraordinary change which is why I believe in my heart and soul no one should ever be made to fight alone we are all in this together we are all in this [Applause] together but I'll tell you I think that there has been a certain backward thinking approach over the last several years which is to suggest some folks them folks to suggest that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down instead of what we know the true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up who you lift up that's the measure of the strength of a leader let's stop with the nonsense and in this election we all here know there are two very different Visions for our nation ours focused on the future the other focused let's just get through the next 64 days [Applause] on and ours yes my dear brother is focused on the future and theirs is focused on the past and we fight for the future we fight for a future where all people receive dignity and respect and opportunity for not just for some but for all that's what we are fighting for and so we are 64 days out from the election day and in Michigan mail and absentee voting starts in 24 days 24 [Applause] days so this is election this election and our fight is a fight for the promise of America a promise I love you that and ours is a fight for the promise the promise of America a promise of freedom of opportunity and Justice not just for some but for all but what we know is as we fight to move our nation forward Donald Trump intends to pull us back to the past but we're not going back we are not going back we're not going we going so andless and and and we know we know what that would look like right so intends to pull us back including back to a time before workers had the freedom to organize as President we will always remember Donald Trump blocked overtime benefits from millions of workers Tyrese talked a bit about this and opposed efforts to raise the minimum wage he appointed Union Busters to the National Labor Relations Board and he supported so-called right to work laws and if well here's the thing here's the thing we have a choice here right and and we're not going back because we also know that if Donald Trump were reelected he intends to give tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations he intends to cut Social security and Medicare he wants to impose what in effect is a national sales tax on everyday products and basic necessities that will cost an economist have said this that will cost a typical American Family almost $4,000 a year he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act and take us back to a time in our country which most of us remember when insurance companies you remember had the power to deny people coverage based on a pre-existing condition remember that deny people children who had asthma a survivor of breast cancer a grandparent with diabetes look America has tried those failed policies before and they are failed policies and we are not going back we are not going back we are not going back and instead and instead we fight for a future a future where no person has to go broke just because they got sick and so when I am President we will continue to strengthen the Affordable Care Act we will bring down the cost of prescription drugs not only for some but for all Americans we we fight for a future where every worker has the freedom to [Applause] organize and so when I am President we will pass the proa and end union busting once and for all and I'll remind everybody on all these bills we got to elect the Congress who supports that to be able to actually get that work done we fight for a future where every person has the opportunity not just to get by but to get ahead and so when I am President we will continue to build what I call an opportunity economy so that every American has an opportunity to own a home to start a business to build intergenerational wealth for their family we fight for a future where every senior can retire with dignity and so when I am President we will continue to defend Social Security Medicare and pensions just like we have done [Applause] [Applause] 64 days 64 days the most important election of our lives and probably one of the most important in the life of our nation and here's what I'd say to all the brothers and sisters assemble we know this is going to be a very tight race to the very end we know we know and I got your back but I'm telling you we know how they play we know what they do so let's not pay too much attention to the polls let's know like labor always does we are out here running like we are the underdog in this race because we know what we are fighting for we know what we stand for and that's why we know what we fight for and we got some hard work ahead of us but again we all like hard work cuz hard work is good [Applause] work and to do that hard work I'm going to count on everyone here all the leaders here for your work for your organizing knocking on doors and getting folks to the polls cuz put bluntly Michigan y'all know how to win you know how to win you know how to win so today I ask Detroit Michigan are you ready to have your voices heard do we believe in Freedom do we believe in opportunity do we believe in the promise of America and are we ready to fight for it and when we fight we win God bless you good afternoon Detroit oh it's good to be in the house of labber can we hear for Tyrese [Applause] Ty I want to thank you for your extraordinary leadership and all of your words and the heart and soul that you put into your work like I know all the members of Luna and everyone here does every day because we love our country and we know it is at stake thank you tyr thank you so it is so good to be with so many incredible leaders and elected officials who are here Governor Whitmer was here earlier senator staban now your next United States Senator representative Elisa sloin and I always want to thank representatives dingles there where is she there she there she is Stevens stinar all of you for the work that you do every day and to all the labor leaders who are here I thank you all for your extraordinary work don't we love Labor Day we love Labor Day it's always been that way right the way we celebrate Labor Day is we know that hard work is good work we know that when we organize when we bring everyone together it's a joyful moment where we are committed to doing the hard work of lifting up America's families and I want to thank everyone here for that work and the way you do it every day including General president Booker of the [Applause] laborers president Fain of UAW president Pringle of Nea president s of the utility workers and President we Garden of the aft and thank you to all of the union members who are here this afternoon so on Labor Day and every day we celebrate the Dignity of work the Dignity of work we celebrate unions because unions helped build America and unions help build America's middle class it is true across our nation and it is true here in Detroit nearly 140 years ago in this very City 10,000 people marched in one of our nation's first Labor Day [Music] parades many heal signs that read divided we can beg united we can demand for Generations in Detroit and across our nation the brothers and sisters of Labor have stood together to righteously demand Fair pay better benefits and safe working conditions and let me say every person in our nation has benefited from that [Applause] work everywhere I oh I tell people look you may not be a union member you better thank a union member for the 5 day work week you better thank a union member for sick leave you better thank a union member for paid leave you better thank a union member for vacation time because what we know is when you un wages go up everybody's wages go up when Union workplaces are safer every workplace is safer when unions are strong America is strong we know what we're talking about the labor movement has has always understood the power of the collective and the power of unity the power of unity and while we are fighting so much nonsense that is about trying to divide our country trying to pull us apart look to what the history and the present of Labor tells us about the power of the collective and unity the spirit of that work work as much as the product of that work is very telling and gives us really good lessons about what creates strength and you know many of you know my parents met while they were active in the Civil Rights Movement so when I was young my parents I see some young leaders here today when I was young my parents would take me to the meetings I see our young leaders and and and take me to the marches I was in a stroller and from a very young age I learned that when people stand together when we join voices knowing that the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us when we join those voices we can drive extraordinary change which is why I believe in my heart and soul no one should ever be made to fight alone we are all in this together we are all in this [Applause] together but I'll tell you I think that there has been a certain backward thinking approach over the last several years which is to suggest some folks them folks to suggest that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down instead of what we know the true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up who you lift up that's the measure of the strength of a leader let's stop with the nonsense and in this election we all here know there are two very different Visions for our nation ours focused on the future the other focused let's just get through the next 64 days and ours yes my dear brother is focused on the future and theirs is focused on the past and we fight for the future we fight for a future where all people receive dignity and respect and opportunity for not just for some but for all that's what we are fighting for and so we are 64 days out from the election day and in Michigan mail and absentee voting starts in 24 days 24 days [Applause] so this election this election and our fight is a fight for the promise of America a promise I love you that and ours is a fight for the promise the promise of America a promise of freedom of opportunity and Justice not just for some but for all [Applause] but what we know is as we fight to move our nation forward Donald Trump intends to pull us back to the past but we're not going back we are not going back we're not going back going not going we not going so unless and and we know we know what that would look like right so intends to pull us back including back to a time before workers had the freedom to organize as President we will always remember Donald Trump blocked overtime benefits from millions of workers Tyrese talked a bit about this and opposed efforts to raise the minimum wage he appointed Union Busters to the National Labor Relations Board and he supported so-called right to work laws here's the thing here's the thing we have a choice here right and and we're not going back because we also know that if Donald Trump were reelected he intends to give tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations he intends to cut Social Security and Medicare he wants to impose what in effect is a national sales tax on everyday products and basic necessities that will cost an economist have said this that will cost a typical American Family almost $4,000 a year he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act and take us back to a time in our country which most of us remember when insurance companies you remember had the power to deny people coverage based on a pre-existing condition remember that deny people the children who had asthma a survivor of breast cancer a grandparent with diabetes look America has tried those failed policies before and they are failed policies and we are not going back we are not going back we are not going back and instead and instead we fight for a future a future where no person has to go broke just cuz they got sick and so when I am President we will continue to strengthen the Affordable Care Act we will bring down the cost of prescription drugs not only for some but for all all [Applause] Americans we we fight for a future where every worker has the freedom to [Applause] organize and so when I am President we will pass the pro act and end union busting once and for all and I'll remind everybody on all these bills we got to elect a congress who supports that to be able to actually get that work done we fight for a future where every person has the opportunity not just to get by but to get ahead and so when I am President we will continue to build what I call an opportunity economy so that every American has an opportunity to own a home to start a business to build intergenerational wealth for their family we fight for a future where every senior can retire with dignity and so when I am President we will continue to defend Social Security Medicare and pensions just like we have done [Applause] [Applause] 64 days 64 days the most important election of our lives and probably one of the most important in the life of our nation and here's what I'd say to all the brothers and sisters assembled we know this is going to be a very tight race to the very end we know we know and I got your back but I'm telling you we know how they play we know what they do so let's not pay too much attention to the polls let's know like labor always does we are out here running like we are the underdog in this race because we know what we are fighting for we know what we stand for and that's why we know what we fight for and we got some hard work ahead of us but again we all like hard work cuz hard work is good [Applause] work and to do that hard work I'm going to count on everyone here all the leaders here for your work for you're organizing knocking on doors and getting folks to the polls cuz put bluntly Michigan y'all know how to win you know how to win you know how to win so today I ask Detroit Michigan are you ready to have your voices heard do we believe in Freedom do we we believe in Opportunity do we believe in the promise of America and are we ready to fight for it and when we fight we win God bless you good afternoon Detroit oh it's good to be in the house of Labor can we hear from [Applause] Tyrese Tyrese I want to thank you for your extraordinary leadership and all of your words and the heart and soul that you put into your work like I know all the members of Luna and everyone here does every day because we love our country and we know it is at stake thank you tyres thank you so it is so good to be with so many incredible leaders and elected officials who are here Governor Whitmer was here earlier senator staban now your next United States Senator representative Elisa [Applause] sloin and I always want to thank representatives dingles there is she there she there she is Steven stinar all of you for the work that you do every every day and to all the labor leaders who are here I thank you all for your extraordinary work don't we love Labor Day we love Labor Day it's always been that way right the way we celebrate Labor Day is we know that hard work is good work we know that when we organize when we bring everyone together it's a joyful moment where we are committed to doing the hard work of lifting up americ families and I want to thank everyone here for that work and the way you do it every day including General president Booker of the [Applause] laborers president Fain of UAW president Pringle of Nea president seven of the utility workers and president Wine Garden of the aft and thank you to all of the union members who are here this afternoon so on Labor Day and every day we celebrate the Dignity of work the Dignity of work we celebrate unions because unions helped build America and unions helped build America's middle class it is true across our nation and it is true here in Detroit nearly 140 years ago in this very City 10,000 people marched in one of our nation's first Labor Day [Music] parades many held signs that read divided we can beg united we can demand for Generations in Detroit and across our nation the brothers and sisters of Labor have stood together to righteously demand Fair pay better benefits and safe working conditions and let me say every person in our nation has benefited from that work everywhere I go I tell people look you may not be a union member you better thank a union member for the 5 day work week you better thank a union member for sick leave you better thank a union member for paid leave you better thank a union member for vacation time because what we know is when union wages go up everybody's wages go up when Union workplaces are safer every workplace is safer when unions are strong America is strong we know what we're talking about the labor movement has always understood the power of the collective and the power of unity the power of unity and while we are fighting so much nonsense that is about trying to divide our country trying to pull us apart look to what the history and the present of Labor tells us about the power of the collective and unity the spirit of that work as much as the product of that work is very telling and gives us really good lessons about what creates strength and you know many of you know my parents met while they were active in the Civil Rights Movement so when I was young my parents I see some young leaders here today when I was young my parents would take me to the meetings I see our young leaders and and and take me to the marches I was an a stroller and from a very young age I learned that when people stand together when we join voices knowing that the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us when we join those voices we can drive extraordinary change which is why I believe in my heart and soul no one should ever be made to fight alone we are all in this together we are all in this [Applause] together but I'll tell you I think that there has been a certain backward thinking approach over the last several years which is to suggest some folks them folks to suggest that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down instead of what we know the true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up who you lift up that's the measure of the strength of a leader let's stop with the nonsense and in this election we all here know there are two very different Visions for our nation ours focused on the future the other focused let's just get through the next 64 days [Applause] H and ours yes my dear brother is focused on the future and theirs is focused on the past and we fight for the future we fight for a future where all people receive dignity and respect an opportunity for not just for some but for all that's what we are fighting for and so we are 64 days out from the election day and in Michigan mail and absentee voting starts in 24 days 24 days [Applause] so this election this election and our fight is a fight for the promise of America a promise I love you and ours is a fight for the promise the promise of America a promise of freedom of opportunity and Justice not just for some but for all [Applause] but what we know is as we fight to move our nation forward Donald Trump intends to pull us back to the past but we're not going back we are not going back we're not going back we're not going back we're not so andless and and and we know we know what that would look like right so intends to pull us back including back to a time before workers had the freedom to organize as President we will always remember Donald Trump blocked overtime benefits from millions of workers Tyrese talked a bit about this and opposed efforts to raise the minimum wage he appointed Union Busters to the National Labor Relations Board and he supported so-called right to work laws and well here's the thing here's the thing we have a choice here right and and we're not going back because we also know that if Donald Trump were reelected he intends to give tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations he intends to cut Social Security and Medicare he wants to impose what in effect is a national sales tax on everyday products and basic necessities that will cost an economist have said this that will cost a typical American Family almost $4,000 a year he wants to repal the Affordable Care Act and take us back to a time in our country which most of us remember when insurance companies you remember had the power to deny people coverage based on a pre-existing condition remember that deny people children who had asthma a survivor of breast cancer a grandparent with diabetes look America has tried those failed policies before and they are failed policies and we are not going back we are not going back we are not going back and instead and instead we fight for a future a future where no person has to go broke just cuz they got sick and so when I am President we will continue to strengthen the Affordable Care Act we will bring down the cost of prescription drugs not only for some but for all [Applause] Americans we we fight for a future where every worker has the freedom to [Applause] organize and so when I am President we will pass the proa and end union busting once and for all and I'll remind everybody on all these bills we got to elect the Congress who supports that to be able to actually get that work done we fight for a future where every person has the opportunity not just to get by but to get ahead and so when I am President we will continue to build what I call an opportunity economy so that every American has an opportunity to own a home to start a business to build intergenerational wealth for their family we fight for a future where every senior can retire with dignity and so when I am President we will continue to defend Social Security Medicare and pensions just like like we have [Applause] done 64 days 64 days the most important election of our lives and probably one of the most important in the life of our nation and here's what I'd say to all the brothers and sisters assembled we know this is going to be a very tight race to the very end we know we know and I got your back but I'm telling you we know how they play we know what they do so let's not pay too much attention to the polls let's know like labor always does we are out here running like we are the underdog in this race because we know what we are fighting for we know what we stand for and that's why we know what we fight for and we got some hard work ahead of us but again we all like hard work cuz hard work is good [Applause] work and to do that hard work I'm going to count on everyone here all the leaders here for your work for your organizing knocking on doors and getting folks to the polls cuz put bluntly Michigan y'all know how to win you know how to win you know how to win so today I ask Detroit Michigan are you ready to have your voices heard do we believe in Freedom [Applause] do we believe in Opportunity do we believe in the promise of America and are we ready to fight for it and when we fight we win God bless you good afternoon Detroit oh it's good to be in the house of Labor can we hear for [Applause] Tyrese tyres I want to thank you for your extraordinary leadership and all of your words and the heart and soul that you put into your work like I know all the members of Luna and everyone here does every day because we love our country and we know it is at stake thank you Tyreek thank you so it is so good to be with so many incredible leaders and elected officials who are here Governor Whitmer was here earlier senator staban now your next United States Senator representative Elisa sloin and I always want to thank representatives dingles there is she there she there she is Steven stinar all of you for the work that you do every day and to all the labor leaders who are here I thank you all for your extraordinary work don't we love Labor Day we love Labor Day it's always been that way right the way we celebrate Labor Day is we know that hard work is good work we know that when we organize when we bring everyone together it's a joyful moment where we are committed to doing the hard work of lifting up America's families and I want to thank everyone here for that work and the way you do it every day including General president Booker of the [Applause] laborers president Fain of UAW president pringo of Nea president seven of the utility workers and president Garden of the AFT and thank you to all of the union members who are here this afternoon so on Labor Day and every day we celebrate the Dignity of work the Dignity of work we celebrate unions because unions helped build America and unions helped build America's middle class it is true across our nation and it is true here in Detroit nearly 140 years ago in this very City 10,000 people marched in one of our nation's first Labor Day [Music] parades many Health signs that read divided we can beg you united we can demand for Generations in Detroit and across our nation the brothers and sisters of Labor have stood together to righteously demand Fair pay better benefits and safe working conditions and let me say every person in our nation has benefited from that work everywhere I go I tell people look you may not be a union member you better thank a union member for the 5 day work week you better than a union member for sick leave you better thank a union member for paid leave you better thank a union member for vacation time because what we know is when union wages go up everybody's wages go up when Union workplaces are safer every workplace is safer when unions are strong America is strong we know what we're talking about the labor movement has always understood the power of the collective and the power of unity the power of unity and while we are fighting so much nonsense that is about trying to divide our country trying to pull us apart look to what the history and the present of Labor tells us about the power of the collective and unity the spirit of that work as much as the product of that work is very telling and gives us really good lessons about what creates strength and you know many of you know my parents met while they were active in the Civil Rights Movement so when I was young my parents I see some young leaders here today when I was young my parents would take me to the meetings I see our young leaders and and and take me to the March as I was in a stroller and from a very young age I learned that when people stand together when we join voices knowing that the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us when we join those voices we can drive extraordinary change which is why I believe in my heart and soul no one should ever be made to fight alone we are all in this together we are all in this [Applause] together but I'll tell you I think that there has been a certain backward thinking approach over the last several years which is to suggest some folks FKS them folks to suggest that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down instead of what we know the true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up who you lift up that's the measure of the strength of a leader let's stop with the nonsense [Applause] and in this election we all here know there are two very different Visions for our nation ours focused on the future the other focused let's just get through the next 64 days h [Applause] on and ours yes my dear brother is focused on the future and theirs is focused on the past and we fight for the future we fight for a future where all people receive dignity and respect and opportunity for not just for some but for all that's what we are fighting for and so we are 64 days out from the election day and in Michigan mailan absentee voting starts in 24 days 4 [Applause] days so this election this election and our fight is a fight for the promise of America a promise I love you and ours is a fight for the promise the promise of America a promise of freedom of opportunity and Justice not just for some but for all but what we know is as we fight to move our nation forward Donald Trump intends to pull us back to the past but we're not going back we are not going back we're not going back we not we we we so and let's and and and we know we know what that would look like right so intends to pull us back including back to a time before workers had the freedom to organize as President we will always remember Donald Trump blocked overtime benefits from millions of workers tyes talked a bit about this and opposed efforts to raise the minimum wage he appointed appointed Union Busters to the National Labor Relations Board and he supported so-called right to work laws and well here's the thing here's the thing we have a choice here right and and we're not going back because we also know that if Donald Trump were reelected he intends to give tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations he intends to cut Social Security and Medicare he wants to impose what in effect is a national sales tax on everyday products and basic necessities that will cost an economist have said this that will cost a typical American Family almost $4,000 a year he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act and take us back to a time in our country which most of us remember when insurance companies you remember had the power to deny people coverage based on a pre-existing condition remember that deny people children who had asthma a survivor of breast cancer a grandparent with diabetes look America has tried those failed policies before and they are failed policies yeah and we are not going back we are not going back we are not going back and instead and instead we fight for a future a future where no person has to go broke just cuz they got sick and so when I am President we will continue to strengthen the Affordable Care we will bring down the cost of prescription drugs not only for some but for all [Applause] Americans we we fight for a future where every worker has the freedom to [Applause] organize and so when I am President we will pass the pro act and end union busting once and for all and I'll remind everybody on all these bills we got to elect the Congress who supports that to be able to actually get that work done we fight for a future where every person has the opportunity not just to get by but to get ahead and so when I am President we will continue continue to build what I call an opportunity economy so that every American has an opportunity to own a home to start a business to build intergenerational wealth for their family we fight for a future where every senior can retire with dignity and so when I am President we will continue to defend Social Security Medicare and P ions just like we have [Applause] done 64 days 64 days the most important election of our lives and probably one of the most important in the life of our nation and here's what I'd say to all the brothers and sisters assemble we know this is going to be a very tight race to the very end we know we know and I got your back but I'm telling you we know how they play we know what they do so let's not pay too much attention to the polls let's know like labor always does we are out here running like we are the Underdog in this race because we know what we are fighting for we know what we stand for and that's why we know what we fight for and we got some hard work ahead of us but again we all like hard work cuz hard work is good [Applause] work and to do that hard work I'm going to count on everyone here all the leaders here for your work for your organizing knocking on doors and getting folks to the polls cuz put bluntly Michigan y'all know how to win you know how to win you know how to win so today I ask Detroit Michigan are you ready to have your voices heard do we believe in Freedom do we believe in Opportunity do we believe in the promise of America and are we ready to fight for it and when we fight we win God bless you good afternoon Detroit oh good to be in the house of labor can we hear for [Applause] Tyrese tyres I want to thank you for your extraordinary leadership and all of your words and the heart and soul that you put into your work like I know all the members of Luna and everyone here does every day because we love our country and we know it is at stake thank you tyr thank you so it is so good to be with so many incredible leaders and elected officials who are here Governor Whitmer was here earlier Senator stabenau your next United States Senator representative Elisa [Applause] slin and I always want to thank representatives dingles there is she there she there she is Steven stinar all of you for the work that you do every day and to all the labor leaders who are here I thank you all for your extraordinary work don't we love Labor Day we love Labor Day it's always been that way right the way we celebrate Labor Day is we know that hard work is good work we know that when we organize when we bring everyone together it's a joyful moment where we are committed to doing the hard work of lifting up America's families and I want to thank everyone here for that work and the way you do it every day including General president Booker of the [Applause] labors president Fain of UAW president Pringle of Nea president seven of the utility workers and president Wine Garden of the AFT and thank you to all of the union members who are here this afternoon so on Labor Day and every day we celebrate the Dignity of work the Dignity of work we celebrate unions because unions helped build America and unions help build America's middle class it is true across our nation and it is true here in Detroit nearly 140 years ago in this very City 10,000 people marched in one of our nation's first Labor Day [Music] parades many Health signs that read divided we can beg united we can demand for Generations in Detroit and across our nation the brothers and sisters of Labor have stood together to righteously demand Fair pay better benefits and safe working conditions and let me say every person in our nation has benefited from that [Applause] work everywhere I go I tell people look you may not be a union member you better thank a union member for the 5 day work week you better thank a union member for sick leave you better thank a union member for paid leave you better thank a union member for vacation time because what we know is when union wages go up everybody's wages go up when Union workplaces are safer every workplace is safer when unions are strong America is strong we know what we're talking about the labor movement has always understood the power of the collective and the power of unity the power of unity and while we are fighting so much nonsense that is about trying to divide our country trying to pull us apart look to what the history and the present of tells us about the power of the collective and unity the spirit of that work as much as the product of that work is very telling and gives us really good lessons about what creates strength and you know many of you know my parents met while they were active in the Civil Rights Movement so when I was young my parents I see some young leaders here today when I was young my parents would take me to the meetings I see young leaders and and and take me to the marches I was in a stroller and from a very young age I learned that when people stand together when we join voices knowing that the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us when we join those voices we can drive extreme extraordinary change which is why I believe in my heart and soul no one should ever be made to fight alone we are all in this together we are all in this [Applause] together but I'll tell you I think that there has been a certain backward thinking approach over the last several years which is to suggest some folks them folks to suggest that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down instead of what we know the true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up who you lift up that's the measure of the strength of a leader let's stop with the nonsense and in this election we all here know there are two very different Visions for our nation ours focused on the future the other focused let's just get through the next 64 days [Applause] on and ours yes my dear brother is focused on the future and theirs is focused on the past and we fight for the future we fight for a future where all people receive dignity and respect and opportunity for not just for some but for all that's what we are fighting for and so we are 64 days out from the election day and in Michigan mail and absentee voting starts in 24 days 24 [Applause] days so this election this election and our fight is a fight for the promise of America a promise I love you that and ours is a fight for the promise the promise of America a promise of freedom of opportunity and Justice not just for some but for all but what we know is as we fight to move our nation forward Donald Trump intends to pull us back to the past but we're not going back we are not going back we're not going we're not going back we're not going we're not so andless and and and we know we know what that would look like right so intends to pull us back including back to a time before workers had the freedom to organize as President we will always remember Donald Trump blocked overtime benefits from millions of workers Tyrese talked a bit about this and opposed efforts to raise the minimum wage he appointed Union Busters to the National Labor Relations Board and he supported so-called right to work laws and if well here's the thing here's the thing we have a choice here right and and we're not going back cuz we also know that if Donald Trump were reelected he intends to give tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations he intends to cut Social Security and Medicare he wants to impose what in effect is a national sales tax on everyday products and basic necessities that will cost an economist have said this that will cost a typical American Family almost $4,000 a year he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act and take us back to a time in our country which most of us remember when insurance companies you remember had the power to deny people coverage based on a pre-existing condition remember that deny people children who had asthma a survivor of breast cancer a grandparent with diabetes look America has tried those failed policies before and they are failed policies and we are not going back we are not going back we are not going back and instead and instead we fight for a future a future where no person has to go broke just CU they got sick and so when I am President we will continue to strengthen the Affordable Care Act we will bring down the cost of prescription drugs not only for some but for all [Applause] Americans we we fight for a future where every worker has the freedom to [Applause] organize and so when I am President we will pass the pro act and end union busting once and for all and I'll remind everybody on all these bills we got to elect a congress who supports that to be able to actually get that work done we fight for a future where every person has the opportunity not just to get by but to get ahead and so when I am President we will continue to build what I call an opportunity economy so that every American has an opportunity to own a home to start a business to build intergenerational wealth for their family we fight for a future where every senior can retire with dignity and so when I am President we will continue to defend Social Security Medicare and pensions just like we have [Applause] done 64 days 64 days the most important election of our lives and probably one of the most important life of nation and here's what i' say to all the brothers and sisters assembled we know this is going to be a very tight race to the very end we know we know and I got your back but I'm telling you we know how they play we know what they do so let's not pay too much attention to the polls let's know like labor always does we are out here running like we are the underdog in this race because we know what we are fighting for we know what we stand for and that's why we know what we fight for and we got some hard work ahead of us but again we all like hard work cuz hard work is good [Applause] work and to do that hard work I'm I'm going to count on everyone here all the leaders here for your work for your organizing knocking on doors and getting folks to the polls cuz put bluntly Michigan y'all know how to win you know how to win you know how to win so today I ask Detroit Michigan are you ready to have your voices heard do we believe in Freedom do we believe in Opportunity do we believe in the promise of America and are we ready to fight for it and when we fight we win God bless you good afternoon Detroit [Applause] oh it's good to be in the house of Labor can we hear from [Applause] Tyrese tyres I want to thank you for your extraordinary leadership and all of your words and the heart and soul that you put into your work like I know all the members of Luna and everyone here does every day because we love our country and we know it is at stake thank you tyr thank you so it is so good to be with so many incredible leaders and elected officials who are here Governor Whitmer was here earlier Senator stabenau your next United States Senator representative Elisa sloin and I always want to thank representatives dingles there is she there she is there she is Steven stinar all of you for the work that you do every day and to all the labor leaders who are here I thank you all for your extraordinary work don't we love Labor Day we love Labor Day it's always been that way right the way we celebrate Labor Day is we know that hard work is good work we know that when we organize when we bring everyone together it's a joyful moment where we are committed to doing the hard work of lifting up America's families and I want to thank everyone here for that work and the way you do it every day including General president Booker of the [Applause] labors president Fain of UAW president Pringle of Nea president s of the utility workers and president wi Garden of the AFT and thank you to all of the union members who are here this afternoon so on Labor Day and every day we celebrate the Dignity of work the Dignity of work we celebrate unions because unions helped build America America and unions help build America's middle class it is true across our nation and it is true here in Detroit nearly 140 years ago in this very City 10,000 people marched in one of our nation's first Labor Day [Music] parades many held signs that read divided we can beg united we can demand for Generations in Detroit and across our nation the brothers and sisters of Labor have stood together to righteously demand Fair pay better benefits and safe working conditions and let me say every person in our nation has benefited from that [Applause] work everywhere I go I tell people look you may not be a union member you better thank a union member for the 5 day work week you better thank a union member for sick leave you better thank a union member for paid leave you better thank a union member for vacation time because what we know is when union wages go up everybody's wages go up when Union workplaces are safer every workplace is safer when unions are strong America is strong we know what we're talking about the labor movement has always understood the power of the collective and the power of unity the power of unity and while we are fighting so much nonsense that is about trying to divide our country trying to pull us apart look to what the history and the present of Labor tells us about the power of the collective and unity the spirit of that work as much as the product of that work is very telling and gives us really good lessons about what creates strength and you know many of you know my parents met while they were active in the Civil Rights Movement so when I was young my parents I see some young leaders here today when I was young my parents to take me to the meetings I see our young leaders and and and take me to the marches I was in a stroller and from a very young age I learned that when people stand together when we join voices knowing that the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us when we join those voices we can drive extraordinary change which is why I believe in my heart and soul no one should ever be made to fight alone we are all in this together we are all in this [Applause] together but I'll tell you I think that there has been a certain backward thinking approach over the last several years which is to suggest some folks them folks to suggest that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down instead of what we know the true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up who you lift up that's the measure of the strength of a leader let's stop with the nonsense and in this election we all here know there are two very different Visions for our nation ours focused on the future the other focused let's just get through the next 64 days on [Applause] and ours yes my dear brother is focused on the future and theirs is focused on the past and we fight for the future we fight for a future where all people receive dignity and respect and opportunity for not just for some but for all that's what we are fighting for and so we are 64 days out from the election day and in Michigan mail and absentee voting starts in 24 days 24 [Applause] days so this election this election and our fight is a fight for the promise of America a promise I love you that and ours is a fight for the promise the promise of America a promise of freedom of opportunity and Justice not just for some but for all but what we know is as we fight to move our nation forward Donald Trump intends to pull us back to the past but we're not going back we are not going back we're not going back we're not going back so unless and and and we know we know what that would look like right so intends to pull us back including back to a time before workers had the freedom to organize as President we will always remember Donald Trump blocked overtime benefits from millions of workers Tyrese talked a bit about this and opposed efforts to raise the minimum wage he appointed Union Busters to the National Labor Relations Board and he supported so-called right to work laws and here's the thing here's the thing we have a choice here right and and we're not going back because we also know that if Donald Trump were reelected he intends to give tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations he intends to cut Social Security and Medicare he wants to impose what in effect is a national sales tax on everyday products and basic necessities that will cost an economist have said this that will cost a typical American Family almost $4,000 a year he wants to repeat the Affordable Care Act and take us back to a time in our country which most of us remember when insurance companies you remember had the power to deny people coverage based on a pre-existing condition remember that deny people children who had asthma a survivor of breast cancer a grandparent with diabetes look America has tried those failed policies before and they are failed policies and we are not going back we are not going back we are not going back and instead and instead we fight for a future a future where no person has to go broke just cuz they got sick and so when I am President we will continue to strengthen the Affordable Care Act we will bring down the cost of prescription drugs not only for some but for all [Applause] Americans we we fight for a future where every worker has the freedom to [Applause] organize and so when I am President we will pass the pro act and end union busting once and for all and I'll remind everybody on all these bills we got to elect the Congress who supports that to be able to actually get that work done we fight for a future where every person has the opportunity not just to get by but to get ahead [Applause] and so when I am President we will continue to build what I call an opportunity economy so that every American has an opportunity to own a home to start a business to build intergenerational wealth for their fam we fight for a future where every senior can retire with dignity and so when I am President we will continue to defend Social Security Medicare and pensions just like we have [Applause] done 64 days 64 days the most important election of our lives and probably one of the most important in the life of our nation and here's what I'd say to all the brothers and sisters assembl we know this is going to be a very tight race to the very end we know we know and I got your back but I'm telling you we know how they play we know what they do so let's not pay too much attention to the polls let's know like labor all always does we are out here running like we are the underdog in this race because we know what we are fighting for we know what we stand for and that's why we know what we fight for and we got some hard work ahead of us but again we all like hard work cuz hard work is good work and to do that hard work I'm going to count on everyone here all the leaders here for your work for you're organizing knocking on doors and getting folks to the polls cuz put bluntly Michigan y'all know how to win you know how to win you know how to win so today I ask Detroit Michigan are you ready ready to have your voices heard do we believe in Freedom do we believe in Opportunity do we believe in the promise of America and are we ready to fight for it and when we fight we win God bless you good afternoon Detroit [Applause] oh it's good to be in the house of Labor can we hear from [Applause] Tyrese Tyrese I want to thank you for your extraordinary leadership and all of your words and the heart and soul that you put into your work like I know all the members of Luna and everyone here does every day because we love our country and we know it is at stake thank you K thank you so it is so good to be with so many incredible leaders and elected officials who are here Governor Whitmer was here earlier senator staban now your next United States Senator representative Elisa slin and I always want to thank Representatives Dingle where is she there she there she is Steven stinar all of you for the work that you do every day and to all the labor leaders who are here I thank you all for your extraordinary work don't we love Labor Day we love Labor Day it's always been that way right the way we celebrate Labor Day is we know that hard work is good work we know that when we or oriz when we bring everyone together it's a joyful moment where we are committed to doing the hard work of lifting up America's families and I want to thank everyone here for that work and the way you do it every day including General president Booker of the [Applause] laborers president Fain of UAW president pringo of Nea president seven of the utility workers and president Wine Garden of the AFT and thank you to all of the union members who are here this afternoon so on Labor Day and every day we celebrate the Dignity of work the Dignity of work we celebrate unions because Union helped build America and unions helped build America's middle class it is true across our nation and it is true here in Detroit nearly 140 years ago in this very City 10,000 people marched in one of our nation's first Labor Day parades held signs that read divided we can beg united we can demand for Generations in Detroit and across our nation the brothers and sisters of Labor have stood together to righteously demand Fair pay better benefits and safe working conditions and let me say every person in our nation has benefited from that [Applause] work everywhere I go I tell people look you may not be a union member you better thank a union member for the 5 day work week you better thank a union member for sick leave you better thank a union member for paid leave you better thank a union member for vacation time because what we know is when union wages go up everybody's wages go up when Union workplaces are safer every workplace is safer when unions are strong America is strong we know what we're talking about the labor movement has always understood the power of the collective and the power of unity the power of unity and while we are fighting so much nonsense that is about trying to divide our country trying to pull us apart look to what the history and the present of Labor tells us about the power of the collective and unity the spirit of that work as much as the product of that work is very telling and gives us really good lessons about what creates strength and you know many of you know my parents met while they were active in the Civil Rights Movement so when I was young my parents I see some young leaders here today when I was young my parents would take me to the meetings I see our young leaders and and and take me to the marches I was in a stroller and from a very young age I learned that when people stand together when we join voices knowing that the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us when we join the those voices we can drive extraordinary change which is why I believe in my heart and soul no one should ever be made to fight alone we are all in this together we are all in this [Applause] together but I'll tell you I think that there has been a certain backward thinking approach over the last several years which is to suggest some folks them folks to suggest that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down instead of what we know the true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up who you lift up that's the measure of the strength of a lead let's stop with the nonsense and in this election we all here know there are two very different Visions for our nation ours focused on the future the other focused let's just get through the next 64 days h [Applause] and ours yes my dear brother is focused on the future and theirs is focused on the past and we fight for the future we fight for a future where all people receive dignity and respect an opportunity for not just for some but for all that's what we are fighting for and so we are 64 days out from the election day and in Michigan mailing absentee voting starts in 24 days 24 [Applause] days so this election this election and our fight is a fight for the promise of America a promise I love you and ours is a fight for the promise the promise of America a promise of freedom of opportunity and Justice not just for some but for all but what we know is as we fight to move our nation forward Donald Trump intends to pull us back to the past but we're not going back we are not going back we're not going back so andless and and and we know we know what that would look like right so intends to pull us back including back to a time before workers had the freedom to organize as President we will always remember Donald Trump blocked overtime benefits from millions of workers tyr talked a bit about this and opposed efforts to raise the minimum wage he appointed Union Busters to the National Labor Relations Board and he supported so-called right to work laws and well here's the thing here's the thing we have a choice here right and and we're not going back because we also know that if Donald Trump were reelected he intends to give tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations he intends to cut Social Security and Medicare he wants to impose what in effect is a national sales tax on everyday products and basic necessities that will cost an economist have said this that will cost a typical American Family almost $4,000 a year he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act and take us back to a time in our country which most of us remember when insurance companies you remember had the power to deny people coverage based on a pre-existing condition remember that deny people the children who had asthma a survivor of breast cancer a grandparent with diabetes look America has tried those failed policies before and they are failed policies and we are not going back we are not going back we are not going back and instead and instead we fight for a future a future where no person has to go broke just cuz they got sick and so when I am President we will continue to strengthen the Affordable Care Act we will bring down the cost of prescription drugs not only for some but for all [Applause] Americans we we fight for a future where every worker has the freedom to [Applause] organize and so when I am President we will pass the proa and and union busting once and for all and I'll remind everybody on all these bills we got to elect the Congress who supports that to be able to actually get that work done we fight for a future where every person has the opportunity not just to get by but to to get ahead and so when I am President we will continue to build what I call an opportunity economy so that every American has an opportunity to own a home to start a business to build intergenerational wealth for their family we fight for a future where every senior can retire with dignity and so when I am President we will continue to defend Social Security Medicare and pensions just like we have [Applause] done 64 days 64 days the most important election of our line and probably one of the most important in the life of our nation and here's what I'd say to all the brothers and sisters assembled we know this is going to be a very tight race to the very end we know we know and I got your back but I'm telling you we know how they play we know what they do so let's not pay too much attention to the polls let's know like labor always does we are out here running like we are the underdog in this race because we know what we are fighting for we know what we stand for and that's why we know what we fight for and we got some hard work ahead of us but again we all like hard work cuz hard work is good work and to do that hard work I'm going to count on everyone here all the leaders here for your work you're organizing knocking on doors and getting folks to the polls cuz put bluntly Michigan y'all know how to win you know how to win you know how to win so today I ask did Detroit Michigan are you ready to have your voices heard do we believe in Freedom do we believe in Opportunity do we believe in the promise of America and are we ready to fight for it and when we fight we win God bless you good afternoon Detroit [Applause] oh it's good to be in the house of Labor can we hear for [Applause] Tyrese tyres I want to thank you for your extraordinary leadership and all of your words and the heart and soul that you put into your work like I know all the members of Luna and everyone here does every day because we love our country and we know what is at stake thank you tyr thank you so it is so good to be with so many incredible leaders and elected officials who are here Governor Whitmer was here earlier Senator stabenau your next United States Senator representative Elisa [Applause] slen and I just want to thank representatives dingles there is she there she there she is Steven stinar all of you for the work that you do every day and to all the labor leaders who are here I thank you all for your extraordinary work don't we love Labor Day we love Labor Day it's always been that way right the way we celebrate Labor Day is we know that hard work is good work work we know that when we organize when we bring everyone together it's a joyful moment where we are committed to doing the hard work of lifting up America's families and I want to thank everyone here for that work and the way you do it every day including General president Booker of the [Applause] laborers president Fain of UAW president Pringle of Nea president seven of the utility workers and president Wine Garden of the AFT and thank you to all of the union members who are here this afternoon so on Labor Day and every day we celebrate the Dignity of work the Dignity of work we celebrate unions because unions helped build America and unions helped build America's middle class it is true across our nation and it is true here in Detroit nearly 140 years ago in this very City 10,000 people marched in one of our nation's first Labor Day parades many Health signs that read divided we can beg united we can demand for Generations in Detroit and across our nation the brothers and sisters of Labor have stood together to righteously demand Fair pay better benefits and safe working conditions and let me say every person in our nation has benefited from that [Applause] work everywhere I go I tell people look you may not be a union member you better than a union member for the 5 day work week you better thank a union member for sick leave you better thank a union member for paid leave you better thank a union member for vacation time because what we know is when union wages go up everybody's wages go up when Union workplaces are safer every workplace is safer when unions are strong America is strong we know what we're talking about the labor movement has always understood the power of the collective and the power of unity the power of unity and while we are fighting so much nonsense that is about trying to divide our country trying to pull us apart yes look to what the history and the present of Labor tells us about the power of the collective in unity the spirit of that work as much as the product of that work is very telling and gives us really good lessons about what creates strength and you know many of you know my parents met while they were active in the Civil Rights Movement so when I was young my parents I see some young leaders here today when I was young my parents would take me to the meetings I see our young leaders and and and take me to the marches I was in a stroller and from a very young age I learned that when people stand together when we join voices knowing that the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us when we join those voices we can drive extraordinary change which is why I believe in my heart and soul no one should ever be made to fight alone we are all in this together we are all in this [Applause] together but I'll tell you I think that there has been a certain backward thinking approach over the last several years which is to suggest some folks them folks to suggest that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down instead of what we know the true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up who you lift up that's the measure of the strength of a leader let's stop with the nonsense and in this election we all here know there are two very different Visions for our nation ours focused on the future the other focused let's just get through the next 64 days h on [Applause] and ours yes my dear brother is focused on the future and theirs is focused on the past and we fight for the future we fight for a future where all people receive dignity and respect and opportunity for not just for some but for all that's what we are fighting for and so we are 64 days out from the election day and in Michigan mail and absentee voting starts in 24 days 24 [Applause] days so this election this election and our fight is a fight for the promise of America a promise I love you and ours is a fight for the promise the promise of America a promise of freedom of opportunity and Justice not just for some but for all but what we know is as we fight to move our nation forward Donald Trump intends to pull us back to the past but we're not going back we are not going back not going going going going so and let's and and and we know we know what that would look like right so intends to pull us back including back to a time before workers had the freedom to organize as President we will always remember Donald Trump blocked overtime benefits from Millions of workers Tyrese talked a bit about this and opposed efforts to raise the minimum wage he appointed Union Busters to the National Labor Relations Board and he supported so-called right to work laws and well here's the thing here's the thing we have a choice here right and and we're not going back cuz we also know that if Donald Trump were reelected he intends to give tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations he intends to cut Social Security and Medicare he wants to impose what in effect is a national sales tax on everyday products and basic necessities that will cost an economist have said this that will cost a typical American Family almost $4,000 a year he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act and take us back to a time in our country which most of us remember when insurance companies you remember had the power to deny people coverage based on a pre-existing condition remember that deny people children who had asthma a survivor of breast cancer a grandparent with diabetes look look America has tried those failed policies before and they are failed policies and we are not going back we are not going back we are not going back and instead and instead we fight for a future a future where no person has to go broke just cuz they got sick and so when I am President we will continue to strengthen the Affordable Care Act we will bring down the cost of prescription drugs not only for some but for all [Applause] Americans we we fight for a future where every worker has the freedom to [Applause] organize and so when I am President we will pass the proa and end union busting once and for all and I'll remind everybody on all these bills we got to elect the Congress who supports that to be able to actually get that work done we fight for a future where every person has the opportunity not just to get by but to get ahead and so when I am President we will continue to build what I call an opportunity economy so that every American has an opportunity to own a home to start a business to build intergenerational wealth for their family we fight for a future where every senior can retire with dignity and so when I am President we will continue to defend Social Security Medicare and pensions just like we have [Applause] done 64 days 64 days the most in important election of our lives and probably one of the most important in the life of our nation and here's what I'd say to all the brothers and sisters assembled we know this is going to be a very tight race to the very end we know we know and I got your back but I'm telling you we know how they play we know what they do so let's not pay too much attention to the polls let's know like labor always does we are out here running like we are the underdog in this race because we know what we are fighting for we know what we stand for and that's why we know what we fight for and we got some hard work ahead of us but again we all like hard work cuz hard hard work is good [Applause] work and to do that hard work I'm going to count on everyone here all the leaders here for your work for your organizing knocking on doors and getting folks to the polls cuz put bluntly Michigan y'all know how to win you know how to win you know how to win so today I ask Detroit Michigan are you ready to have your voices heard do we believe in Freedom do we believe in Opportunity do we believe in the promise of America and are we ready to fight for it and when we fight we win God bless you good afternoon Detroit oh it's good to be in the house of La can we hear for [Applause] Tyrese tyres I want to thank you for your extraordinary leadership and all of your words and the heart and soul that you put into your work like I know all the members of Luna and everyone here does every day because we love our country and we know it is at stake thank you tyr thank you so it is so good to be with so many incredible leaders and elected officials who are here Governor Whitmer was here earlier senator staban now your next United States Senator representative Elisa slin [Applause] and I always want to thank representatives dingles there is she there she there she is Step stinar all of you for the work that you do every day and to all the labor leaders who are here I thank you all for your extraordinary work don't we love Labor Day we love Labor Day it's always been that way right the way we celebrate Labor Day is we know that hard work is good work we know that when we organize when we bring everyone together it's a joyful moment where we are committed to doing the hard work of lifting up America's families and I want to thank everyone here for that work and the way you do it every day including General president Booker of the [Applause] labors president Fain of UAW president Pringle of Nea president s of the utility workers and president weine Garden of the AFT and thank you to all of the union members who are here this afternoon so on Labor Day and every day we celebrate the Dignity of work yes the Dig of work we celebrate unions because unions helped build America and unions helped build America's middle class it is true across our nation and it is true here in Detroit nearly 140 years ago in this very City 10,000 people marched in one of our nation's first Labor Day [Music] parades many heal signs that read divided we can beg united we can demand for Generations in Detroit and across our nation the brothers and sisters of Labor have stood together to righteously demand Fair pay better benefits and safe working conditions and let me say every person in our nation has benefited from that [Applause] work everywhere I go I tell people look you may not be a union member you better thank a union member for the 5 day work week you better thank a union member for sick leave you better thank a union member for paid leave you better thank a union member for vacation time because what we know is when union wages go up everybody's wages go up when Union workplaces are safer every workplace is safer when unions are strong America is strong we know what we're talking about the labor movement has always understood the power of the collective and the power of unity the power of unity and while we are fighting so much nonsense that is about trying to divide our country trying to pull us apart look to what the history and the present of Labor tells us about the power of the collective and unity the spirit of that work as much as the product of that work is very telling and gives us really good lessons about what creates strength and you know many of you know my parents met while they were active in the Civil Rights Movement so when I was young my parents I see some young leaders here today when I was young my parents would take me to the meetings I see our young leaders and and and take me to the marches I was in a stroller and from a very young age I learned that when people stand together when we join voices knowing that the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us when we join those voices we can drive extraordinary change which is why I believe in my heart and soul no one should ever be made to fight alone we are all in this together we are all in this [Applause] together but our tell you I think that there has been a certain backward thinking approach over the last several years which is to suggest some folks them folks to suggest that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down instead of what we know the true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up who you lift oh that's the measure of the strength of a leader let's stop with the nonsense and in this election we all here know there are two very different Visions for our nation ours focused on the future the other focused let's just get through the next 64 days [Applause] tell and ours yes my dear brother is focused on the future and theirs is focused on the past and we fight for the future we fight for a future where all people receive dignity and respect and opportunity for not just for some but for all that's what we are fighting for and so we are 64 days out from the election day and in Michigan mail and absentee voting starts in 24 days 24 [Applause] days so this election this election and our fight is a fight for the promise of America a promise I love you guys and ours is a fight for the promise the promise of America a promise of freedom of opportunity and jce not just for some but for all but what we know is as we fight to move our nation forward Donald Trump intends to pull us back to the past but we're not going back we are not going back we're not going back we not going we we going so andless and and and we know we know what that would look like right so intends to pull us back including back to a time before workers had the freedom to organize as President we will always remember Donald Trump blocked overtime benefits from millions of workers Tyrese talked a bit about this and opposed efforts to raise the minimum wage he appointed Union Busters to the National Labor Relations Board and he supported so-called right to work laws and if but here's the thing here's the thing we have a choice here right and and we're not going back cuz we also know that if Donald Trump were reelected he intends to give tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations he intends to cut Social Security and Medicare he wants to impose what in effect is a national sales tax on everyday products and basic necessities that will cost an economist have said this that will cost a typical American Family almost $4,000 a year he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act and take us back to a time in our country which most of us remember when insurance companies you remember had the power to deny people coverage based on a pre-existing condition remember that deny people children who had asthma a survivor of breast cancer a grandparent would Di diabetes look America has tried those failed policies before and they are failed policies and we are not going back we are not going back we are not going back and instead and instead we fight for a future a future future where no person has to go broke just cuz they got sick and so when I am President we will continue to strengthen the Affordable Care Act we will bring down the cost of prescription drugs not only for some but for all [Applause] Americans we we fight for a future where every worker has the freedom to [Applause] organize and so when I am President we will pass the pro act and end union busting once and for all and I'll remind everybody on all these bills we got to elect the Congress who supports that to be able to actually get that work done we fight for a future where every person has the opportunity not just to get by but to get ahead and so when I am President we will continue to build what I call an opportunity economy so that every American has an opportunity to own a home to start a business to build intergenerational wealth for their family we fight for our future where every sing can retire with dignity and so when I am President we will continue to defend Social Security Medicare and pensions just like we have [Applause] done 64 days 64 days the most important election of our lives and probably one of the most important in the life of our nation and here's what I'd say to all the brothers and sisters assembled we know this is going to be a very tight race to the very end we know we know and I got your back but I'm telling you we know how they play we know what they do so let's not pay too much attention to the polls let's know like labor always does we are out here running like we are the underdog in this race because we know what we are fighting for we know what we stand for and that's why we know what we fight for and we got some hard work ahead of us but again and we all like hard work cuz hard work is good [Applause] work and to do that hard work I'm going to count on everyone here all the leaders here for your work for your organizing knocking on doors and getting folks to the polls cuz put bluntly Michigan y'all know how to win you know how to win you know how to win so today I ask Detroit Michigan are you ready to have your voices heard do we believe in Freedom do we believe in Opportunity do we believe in the promise of America and are we ready to fight for it and when we fight we win God bless you good afternoon [Applause] Detroit oh it's good to be in the house of Labor can we hear from [Applause] Tyrese tyres I want to thank you for your extraordinary leadership and all of your words and the heart and soul that you put into your work like I know all the members of Luna and every everyone here does every day because we love our country and we know it is at stake thank you tyr thank you so it is so good to be with so many incredible leaders and elected officials who are here Governor Whitmer was here earlier senator staban now your next United States Senator representative Elisa sloin [Applause] and I always want to thank representatives dingles there is she there she there she is stepen stinar all of you for the work that you do every day and to all the labor leaders who are here I thank you all for your extraordinary work don't we love Labor Day we love Labor Day it's always been that way right the the way we celebrate Labor Day is we know that hard work is good work we know that when we organize when we bring everyone together it's a joyful moment where we are committed to doing the hard work of lifting up America's families and I want to thank everyone here for that work and the way you do it every day including General president Booker of the [Applause] labors president Fain of UAW president Pringle of Nea president s of the utility workers and president Wine Garden of the AFT and thank you to all of the union members who are here this afternoon so on Labor Day and every day we celebrate the dignity of work the Dignity of work we celebrate unions because unions helped build America and unions helped build America's middle class it is true across our nation and it is true here in Detroit nearly 140 years ago in this very City 10,000 people marched in one of our nation's first Labor Day [Music] parades many held signs that read divided we can beg united we can demand for Generations in Detroit and across our nation the brothers and sisters of Labor have stood together to righteously demand Fair pay better benefits and safe working conditions and let me say every person in our nation has benefited from that [Applause] work everywhere I go I tell people look you may not be a union member you better thank a union member for the 5 day work week you better thank a union member for sick leave you better thank a union member for paid leave you better thank a union member for vacation time because what we know is when union wages go up everybody's wages go up when Union workplaces are safer every workplace is safer when unions are strong America is strong we know what we're talking about the labor movement has always understood the power of the collective and the power of unity the power of unity and while we are fighting so much nonsense that is about trying to divide our country trying to pull us apart look to what the history and the present of Labor tells us about the power of the collective and unity the spirit of that work as much as the product of that work is very telling and gives us really good lessons about what creates strength and you know many of you know my parents met while they were active in the Civil Rights Movement so when I was young my parents I see some young leaders here today when I was young my parents would take me to the meetings I see our young leaders and and and take me to the marches I was in a stroller and from a very young age I learned that when people stand together when we join voices knowing that the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us when we join those voices we can drive extraordinary change which is why I believe in my heart and soul no one should ever be made to fight alone we are all in this together we are all in this together [Applause] but I'll tell you I think that there has been a certain backward thinking approach over the last several years which is to suggest some folks them folks to suggest that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down instead of what we know the true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up who you lift up that's the measure of the strength of a leader let's stop with the nonsense and in this election we all here know there are two very different Visions for our nation ours focused on the future the other focused let's just get through the next 64 days h [Applause] on and ours yes my dear brother is focused on the future and theirs is focused on the past and we fight for the future we fight for a future where all people receive dignity and respect and opportunity for not just for some but for all that's what we are fighting for and so we are 64 days out from the election day and in Michigan mail and absentee voting starts in 24 days 24 [Applause] days so this election this election and our fight is a fight for the promise of America a promise I love you and ours is a fight for the promise the promise of America a promise of freedom of opportunity and Justice not just for some but for all but what we know is as we fight to move our nation forward Donald Trump intends to pull us back to the past but we're not going back we are not going back we're not going back we're not going back we're not going so andless and and and we know we know what that would look like right so intends to pull us back including back to a time before workers have the freedom to organize as President we will always remember Donald Trump blocked overtime benefits from millions of workers Tyrese talked a bit about this and opposed efforts to raise the minimum wage he appointed Union Busters to the National Labor Relations Board and he supported so-called right to work laws and well here's the thing here's the thing we have a choice here right and and we're not going back because we also know that if Donald Trump were reelected he intends to give tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations he intends to cut Social Security and Medicare he wants to impose what in effect is a national sales tax on everyday products and basic necessities that will cost an economist have said this that will cost a typical American Family almost $44,000 a year he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act and take us back to a time in our country which most of us remember when insurance companies you remember had the power to deny people coverage based on a pre-existing condition remember that deny people the children who had asthma a surviv of breast cancer a grandparent with diabetes look America has tried those failed policies before and they are failed policies and we are not going back we are not going back we are not going back and instead and instead we fight for a future a future where no person has to go broke just because they got sick and so when I am President we will continue to strengthen the Affordable Care Act we will bring down the cost of prescription drugs not only for some but for all [Applause] Americans we we fight for a future where every worker has the freedom to organize [Applause] and so when I am President we will pass the pro act and end union busting once and for all and I'll remind everybody on all these bills we got to elect the Congress who supports that to be able to actually get that work done we fight for a future where every person has the opportunity not just to get by but to get ahead and so when I am President we will continue to build what I call an opportunity economy so that every American has an opportunity to own a home to start a business to build intergenerational wealth for their family we fight for a future where every senior can retire with dignity and so when I am President we will continue to defend Social Security Medicare and pensions just like we have [Applause] done 64 days 64 days the most important election of our lives and probably one of the most important in the life of our nation and here's what I'd say to all the brothers and sisters assembled we know this is going to be a very tight race to the very end we know we know and I got your back but I'm telling you we know how they play we know what they do so let's not pay too much attention to the polls let's know like labor always does we are out here running like we are the underdog in this race because we know what we are fighting for we know what we stand for and that's why we know what we fight for and we got some hard work ahead of us but again we all like hard work cuz hard work is good [Applause] work and to do that hard work I'm going to count on everyone here all the leaders here for your work you're organizing knocking on doors and getting folks to the polls cuz put bluntly Michigan y'all know how to win you know how to win you know how to win so today I ask Detroit Michigan are you ready to have your voices heard do we believe in Freedom do we believe in Opportunity do we believe in the promise of America and are we ready to fight for it and when we fight we win God bless you good afternoon Detroit oh it's good to be in the house of Labor can we hear from [Applause] Tyrese Tyrese I want to thank you for your extraordinary leadership and all of your words and the heart and soul that you put into your work like I know all the members of Luna and everyone here does every day because we love our country and we know it is at stake thank you Ty thank you so it is so good to be with so many incredible leaders and elected officials who are here Governor Whitmer was here earlier senator staban now your next United States Senator representative Elisa locken and I always want to thank representatives dingles there where is she there she there she is stepen stinar all of you for the work that you do every day and to all the labor leaders who are here I thank you all for your extraordinary work don't we love Labor Day we love Labor Day it's always been that way right the way we celebrate Labor Day is we know that hard work is good work we know that when we organize when we bring everyone together it's a joyful moment where we are committed to doing the hard work of lifting up America's families and I want to thank everyone here for that work and the way you do it every day including General president Booker of the [Applause] laborers president Fain of UAW president Pringle of Nea president seven of the utility workers and president Wine Garden of the AFT and thank you to all of the union members who are here this afternoon so on Labor Day and every day we celebrate the Dignity of work the Dignity of work we celebrate unions because unions helped build America and unions helped build America's middle class it is true across our nation and it is true here in Detroit nearly 140 years ago in this very City 10,000 people marched in one of our nation's first Labor Day [Music] parades many Health signs that read divided we can beg united we can demand for Generations in Detroit and across our nation the brothers and sisters of Labor have stood together to righteously demand Fair pay better benefits and safe working conditions and let me say every person in our nation has benefited from that [Applause] work everywhere I go I tell people look you may not be a union member you better thank a union member for the 5 day work week you better thank a union member for sick leave you better thank a union member for paid leave you better thank a union member for vacation time because what we know is when union wages go up everybody's wages go up when Union workplaces are safer every workplace is safer when unions are strong America is strong we know what we're talking about the labor movement has always understood the power of the collective and the power of unity the power of unity and while we are fighting so much nonsense that is about trying to divide our country trying to pull us apart look to what the history and the present of Labor tells us about the power of the collective and unity the spirit of that work as much as the product of that work is very telling and gives us really good lessons about what creates strength and you know many of you know my parents met while they were active in the Civil Rights Movement so when I was young my parents I see some young leaders here today when I was young my parents would take me to the meetings I see our young leaders and and and take me to the marches I was in a stroller and from a very young age I learned that when people stand together when we join voices knowing that the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us when we join those voices we can drive extraordinary change which is why I believe in my heart and soul no one should ever be made to fight alone we are all in this together we are all in this together [Applause] but I'll tell you I think that there has been a certain backward thinking approach over the last several years which is to suggest some folks them folks to suggest that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down instead of what we know the true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you LIF us who you lift up that's the measure of the strength of a leader let's stop with the nonsense and in this election we all here know there are two very different Visions for our nation ours focused on the future the other focused let's just get through the next 64 days [Applause] H and ours yes my dear brother is focused on the future and theirs is focused on the past and we fight for the future we fight for a future where all people receive dignity and respect an opportunity for not just for some but for all that's what we are fighting for and so we are 64 days out from the election day and in Michigan mail and absentee voting starts in 24 days 24 [Applause] days so this election this election and our fight is a fight for the promise of America a promise I love you and ours is a fight for the promise the promise of America a promise of freedom of opportunity and Justice not just for some but for all but what we know is as we fight to move our nation forward Donald Trump intends to pull us back to the past but we're not going back we are not going back we're not going back not so and let's and and and we know we know what that would look like right so intends to pull us back including back to a time before workers had the freedom to organize as president we will always remember Donald Trump blocked overtime benefits from millions of workers Tyrese talked a bit about this and opposed efforts to raise the minimum wage he appointed Union Busters to the National Labor Relations Board and he supported so-called right to work laws and if well here's the thing here's the thing we have a choice here right and and we're not going back because we also know that if Donald Trump were reelected he intends to give tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations he intends to cut Social Security and Medicare he wants to impose what in effect is a national sales tax on everyday products and basic necessi ities that will cost an economist have said this that will cost a typical American Family almost $4,000 a year he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act and take us back to a time in our country which most of us remember when insurance companies you remember had the power to deny people coverage based on a pre-existing condition remember that deny people children who had asthma a survivor of breast cancer a grandparent with diabetes look America has tried those failed policies before and they are failed policies and we are not going back and we are not going back we are not going back and instead and instead we we fight for a future a future where no person has to go broke just cuz they got sick and so when I am President we will continue to strengthen the Affordable Care Act we will bring down the cost of prescription drugs not only for some but for all [Applause] Americans we we fight for a future where every worker has the freedom to organize [Applause] and so when I am President we will pass the proa and and union busting once and for all and I'll remind everybody on all these bills we got to elect the Congress who supports that to be able to actually get that work done we fight for a future where every person has the opportunity not just to get by but to get ahead and so when I am President we will continue to build what I call an opportunity economy so that every American has an opportunity to own a home to start a business to build intergenerational wealth for their family we fight for a future where every senior can retire with dignity and so when I am President we will continue to defend Social Security Medicare and pensions just like we have [Applause] done 64 days 64 days the most important election of our lives and probably one of the most important in the life of our nation and here's what I'd say to all the brothers and sisters assembled we know this is going to be a very tight race to the very end we know we know and I got your back but I'm telling you we know how they play we know what they do so let's not pay too much attention to the polls let's know like labor always does we are out here running like we are the underdog in this race because we know what we are fighting for we know what we stand for and that's why we know what we fight for [Applause] and we got some hard work ahead of us but again we all like hard work cuz hard work is good [Applause] work and to do that hard work I'm going to count on everyone here all the leaders here for your work for you're organizing knocking on doors and getting folks to the polls cuz put bluntly Michigan y'all know how to win you know how to win you know how to win so today I ask Detroit Michigan are you ready to have your voices heard do we believe in Freedom do we believe in Opportunity do we believe in the promise of America and are we ready to fight for it and when we fight we win God bless you good afternoon Detroit oh it's good to be in the house of Labor can we hear for [Applause] tyres tyres I want to thank you for your extraordinary leadership and all of your words and the heart and that you put into your work like I know all the members of Luna and everyone here does every day because we love our country and we know what is at stake thank you tyr thank you so it is so good to be with so many incredible leaders and elected officials who are here Governor Whitmer was here earlier senator staban now your next United States Senator representative Elisa slin and I always want to thank representatives dingles there where is she there she there she is Steven stinar all of you for the work that you do every day and to all the labor leaders who are here I thank you all for your extraordinary work don't we love Labor Day we love Labor Day it's always been that way right the way we celebrate Labor Day is we know that hard work is good work we know that when we organize when we bring everyone together it's a joyful moment where we are committed to doing the hard work of lifting up America's families and I want to thank everyone here for that work and the way you do it every day including General president Booker of the [Applause] laborers president of UAW president Pringle of Nea president seven of the utility workers and president Wine Garden of the AFT and thank you to all of the union members who are here this afternoon so on Labor Day and every day we celebrate the Dignity of work the Dignity of work we celebrate unions because unions helped build America and unions helped build America's middle class it is true across our nation and it is true here in Detroit nearly 140 years ago In This Very City 10,000 people marched in one of our nation's first Labor Day [Music] parades many Health signs that read divided we can beg united we can demand for Generations in Detroit and across our nation the brothers and sisters of Labor have stood together to righteously demand Fair pay better benefits and safe working conditions and let me say every person in our nation has benefited from that [Applause] work everywhere I go I tell people look you may not be a union member you better thank a union member for the 5 day work week you better thank a union member for sick leave you better thank a union member for paid leave you better thank a union member for vacation time because what we know is when union wages go up everybody's wages go up when Union workplaces are safe every workplace is safer when unions are strong America is strong we know what we're talking about the labor movement has always understood the power of the collective and the power of unity the power of unity and while we are fighting so much nonsense that is about trying to divide our country trying to pull us apart yes look to what the history and the present of Labor tells us about the power of the collective inunity the spirit of that work as much as the product of that work is very telling and gives us really good lessons about what creates strength and you know many of you know my parents met while they were active in the Civil Rights Movement so when I was young my parents I see some young leaders here today when I was young my parents would take me to the meetings I see our young leaders and and and take me to the marches I was in a stroller and from a very young age I learned that when people stand together when we join voices knowing that the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us when we join those voices we can drive extraordinary change which is why I believe in my heart and soul no one should ever be made to fight alone we are all in this together all in this [Applause] together but I'll tell you I think that there has been a certain backward thinking approach over the last several years which is to suggest some folks them folks to suggest that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down instead of what we know the true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up who you lift up that's the measure of the strength of a leader let's stop with the nonsense and in this election we all here know there are two very different Visions for our nation ours focused on the future the other focused let's just get through the next 64 days [Applause] H and ours yes my dear brother is focused on the future and theirs is focused on the past and we fight for the future we fight for a future where all people receive dignity and respect and opportunity for not just for some but for all that's what we are fighting for and so we are 64 days out from the election day and in Michigan mail and absentee voting starts in 24 days 24 [Applause] days so this election this election and our fight is a fight for the promise of America a promise promise I love you that and ours is a fight for the promise the promise of America a promise of freedom of opportunity and Justice not just for some but for all but what we know is as we fight to move our nation forward Donald Trump intends to pull us back to the past but we're not going back we are not going back we're not going going going going so and let and and and we know we know what that would look like right so intends to pull us back including back to a time before workers had the freedom to organ organiz as President we will always remember Donald Trump blocked overtime benefits from millions of workers Tyrese talked a bit about this and opposed efforts to raise the minimum wage he appointed Union Busters to the National Labor Relations Board and he supported so-called right to work laws and if well here's the thing here's the thing we have a choice here right and and we're not going back because we also know that if Donald Trump were reelected he intends to give tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations he intends to cut Social Security and Medicare he wants to impose what in effect is a national sales tax on every everyday products and basic necessities that will cost an economist have said this that will cost a typical American Family almost $4,000 a year he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act and take us back to a time in our country which most of us remember when insurance companies you remember had the power to deny people coverage based on a pre-existing condition remember that die people children who had asthma a survivor of breast cancer a grandparent with diabetes look America has tried those failed policies before and they are failed policies and we are not going back we are not going back we are not going and instead and instead we fight for a future a future where no person has to go broke just because they got sick and so when I am President we will continue to strengthen the Affordable Care Act we will bring down the cost of prescription drugs not only for some but for all [Applause] Americans we we fight for a future where every worker has the freedom to [Applause] organize and so when I am President we will pass the proa and end union busting once and for all and I'll remind everybody on all these bills we got to elect the Congress who supports that to be able to actually get that work done we fight for a future where every person has the opportunity not just to get by but to get ahead and so when I am President we will continue to build what I call an opportunity economy so that every American has an opportunity to own a home to start a business to build intergenerational wealth for their family we fight for a future where every senior can retire with dignity and so when I am President we will continue to defend Social Security Medicare and pensions just like we have done [Applause] 64 days 64 days the most important election of our lives and probably one of the most important in the life of our nation and here's what I'd say to all the brothers and sisters assemble we know this is going to be a very tight race to the very end we know we know and I got your back but I'm telling you we know how they play we know what they do so let's not pay too much attention to the polls let's know like labor always does we are out here running like we are the underdog in this race because we know what we are fighting for we know what we stand for and that's why we know what we fight for [Applause] and we got some hard work ahead of us but again we all like hard work cuz hard work is good [Applause] work and to do that hard work I'm going to count on everyone here all the leaders here for your work for your organizing knocking on doors and getting folks to the polls cuz put bluntly Michigan y'all know how to win you know how to win you know how to win so today I ask Detroit Michigan are you ready to have your voices heard do we believe in Freedom do we believe in Opportunity do we believe in the promise of America and are we ready to fight for it and when we fight we win God bless you good afternoon Detroit oh it's good to be in the house of Labor can we hear for [Applause] Tyrese tyres I want to thank you for your extraordinary leadership and all of your words and the heart and soul that you put into your work like I know all the members of Luna and everyone here does every day because we love our country and we know it is at stake thank you tyr thank you so it is so good to be with so many incredible leaders and elected officials who are here Governor Whitmer was here earlier senator staban now your next United States Senator representative Elisa slin and I always want to thank Representatives dingles where is she there she there she is Steven stinar all of you for the work that you do every day and to all the labor leaders who are here I thank you all for your extraordinary work don't we love Labor Day we love Labor Day it's always been that way right the way we celebrate Labor Day is we know that hard work is good work we know that when we organize when we bring everyone together it's a joyful moment where we are committed to doing the hard work of lifting up America's families and I want to thank everyone here for that work and the way you do it every day including General president Booker of the labors president Fain of UAW president Pringle of Nea president seven of the utility workers and president Wine Garden of the AFT and thank you to all of the union members who are here this afternoon so on Labor Day and every day we celebrate the Dignity of work the Dignity of work we celebrate unions because unions helped build America and unions help build America's middle class it is true across our nation and it is true here in Detroit nearly 14 40 years ago in this very City 10,000 people marched in one of our nation's first Labor Day [Music] parades many held signs that read divided we can beg united we can demand for Generations in Detroit and across our nation the brothers and sisters of labor have stood together to righteously demand Fair pay better benefits and safe working conditions and let me say every person in our nation has benefited from that [Applause] work everywhere I go I tell people look you may not be a union member you better thank a union member for the 5 day work week you better thank a union member for sick leave you better thank a union member for paid leave you better thank a union member for vacation time because what we know is when union wages go up everybody's wages go up when you workplaces are safer every workplace is safer when unions are strong America is strong we know what we're talking about the labor movement has always understood the power of the collective and the power of unity the power of unity and while we are fighting so much nonsense that is about trying to divide our country trying to pull us apart look to what the history and the present of Labor tells us about the power of the collective and unity the spirit of that work as much as the product of that work is very telling and gives us really good lessons about what creates strength and you know many of you know my parents met while they were active in the Civil Rights Movement so when I was young my parents I see some young leaders here today when I was young my parents would take me to the meetings I see our young leaders and and and take me to the marches I was in a stroller and from a very young age I learned that when people stand together when we join voices knowing that the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us when we join those voices we can drive extraordinary change which is why I believe in my heart and soul no one should ever be made to fight alone we are all in this together we are all in this [Applause] together but I'll tell you I think that there has been a certain backward thinking approach over the last several years which is to suggest some folks them folks to suggest that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down instead of what we know the true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up who you lift up that's the measure of the strength of a leader let's stop with the nonsense and in this election we all here know there are two very different Visions for our nation ours Focus on the future the other focused let's just get through the next 64 [Applause] days and ours yes my dear brother is focused on the future and theirs is focused on the past and we fight for the future we fight for a future where all people receive dignity and respect and opportunity for not just for some but for all that's what we are fighting for and so we are 64 days out from the election day and in Michigan mail and absentee voting starts in 24 days 24 [Applause] days so this election this election and our fight is a fight for the promise of America a promise I love you that and ours is a fight for the promise the promise of America a promise of freedom of opportunity and Justice not just for some but for all but what we know is as we fight to move our nation forward Donald Trump intends to pull us back to the past but we're not going back we are not going back we're not going back we going going going so and let's and and and we know we know what that would look like right so intends to pull us back including back to a Time before workers had the freedom to organize as President we will always remember Donald Trump blocked overtime benefits from millions of workers Tyrese talked a bit about this and opposed efforts to raise the minimum wage he appointed Union Busters to the National Labor Relations Board and he supported so-called right to work laws and here's the thing here's the thing we have a choice here right and and we're not going back because we also know that if Donald Trump were reelected he intends to give tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations he intends to cut Social Security and Medicare he wants to impose what in effect is a national sales tax on everyday products and basic necessities that will cost an economist have said this that will cost a typical American Family almost $44,000 a year he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act and take us back to a time in our country which most of us remember when insurance companies you remember had the power to deny people coverage based on a pre-existing condition remember that deny people children who had asthma a survivor of breast cancer a grandparent would diabetes look America has tried those failed policies before and they are failed policies and we are not going back we are not going back we are not going back and instead and instead we fight for a future a future where no person has to go broke just cuz they got sick and so when I am President we will continue to strengthen the Affordable Care Act we will bring down the cost of prescription drugs not only for some but for all [Applause] Americans we we fight for future where every worker has the freedom to [Applause] organize and so when I am President we will pass the pro act and end union busting once and for all and I'll remind everybody on all these bills we got to elect the Congress who supports that to be able to actually get that work done we fight for a future where every person has the opportunity not just to get by but to get ahead and so when I am President we will continue to build what I call an opportunity economy so that every American has an opportunity to own a home to start a business to build intergenerational wealth for their family we fight for a future where every Senor can retire with dignity and so when I am President we will continue to defend Social Security Medicare and pensions just like we have done [Applause] [Applause] 64 days 64 days the most important election of our lives and probably one of the most important in the life of our nation and here's what I'd say to all the brothers and sisters assembled we know this is going to be a very tight race to the very end we know we know and I got your back but I'm telling you we know how they play we know what they do so let's not pay too much attention to the polls let's know like labor always does we are out here running like we are the underdog in this race because we know what we are fighting for we know what we stand for and that's why we know what we fight for [Applause] and we got some hard work ahead of us but again we all like hard work cuz hard work is good [Applause] work and to do that hard work I'm going to count on everyone here all the leaders here for your work for your organizing knocking on doors and getting folks to the polls cuz put bluntly Michigan y'all know how to win you know how to win you know how to win so today I ask Detroit Michigan are you ready to have your voices heard do we believe in Freedom do we believe in Opportunity do we believe in the promise of America and all are we ready to fight for it and when we fight we win God bless you good afternoon Detroit oh it's good to be in the house of Labor can we hear from [Applause] Tyrese tyes I want to thank you for your extraordinary leadership and all of your words and the heart and soul that you put into your work like I know all the members of Luna and everyone here does every day because we love our country and we know it is at stake thank you tyr thank you so it is so good to be with so many incredible leaders and elected officials who are here Governor Whitmer was here earlier senator staban now [Applause] your next United States Senator representative Elisa [Applause] sloin and I always want to thank representatives dingles there is she there she there she is Step stinar all of you for the work that you do every day and to all the labor leaders who are here I thank you all for your extraordinary work don't we love Labor Day we we love labor days it's always been that way right the way we celebrate Labor Day is we know that hard work is good work we know that when we organize when we bring everyone together it's a joyful moment where we are committed to doing the hard work of lifting up America's families and I want to thank everyone here for that work and the way you do it every day including General president Booker of the laborers president Fain of UAW president Pringle of Nea president seven of the utility workers and president Wine Garden of the AFT and thank you to all of the union members who are here this afternoon so on Labor Day and every day we celebrate the Dignity of work the Dignity of work we celebrate unions because unions helped build America and unions help build America's middle class it is true across our nation and it is true here in Detroit nearly 140 years ago in this very City 10,000 people marched in one of our nation's first Labor Day [Music] parades many held signs that read divided we can beg united we can demand for Generations in Detroit and across our nation the brothers and sisters of Labor have stood together to righteously demand Fair pay better benefits and safe working conditions and let me say every person in our nation has benefited from that [Applause] work everywhere I go I tell people look you may not be a union member you better thank a union member for the 5 day work week you better thank a union member for sick leave you better thank a union member for paid leave you better thank a union member for vacation time because what we know is when union wages go up everybody's wages go up when Union workplaces are safer every workplace is safer when unions are strong America is strong we know what we're talking about the labor movement has always understood the power of the collective and the power power of unity the power of unity and while we are fighting so much nonsense that is about trying to divide our country trying to pull us apart look to what the history and the present of Labor tells us about the power of the collective and unity the spirit of that work as much as the product of that work is very telling and gives us really good lessons about what creates strength and you know many of you know my parents met while they were active in the Civil Rights Movement so when I was young my parents I see some young leaders here today when I was young my parents would take me to the meetings I see our young leaders and and and take me to the marches I was in a stroller and from a very young age I learned that when people stand to together when we join voices knowing that the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us when we join those voices we can drive extraordinary change which is why I believe in my heart and soul no one should ever be made to fight alone we are all in this together we are all in this [Applause] together but I'll tell you I think that there has been a certain backward thinking approach over the last several years which is to suggest some folks them folks to suggest that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down instead of what we know the true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up who you lift up that's the measure of the strength of a leader let's stop with the nonsense and in this election we all here know there are two very different Visions for our nation ours focused on the future the other focused let's just get through the next 64 days [Applause] H and ours yes my dear brother is focused on the future and theirs is focused on the past and we fight for the future we fight for a future where all people receive dignity and respect an opportunity for not just for some but for all that's what we are fighting for and so we are 64 days out from the election day and in Michigan mail and absentee voting starts in 24 days 24 [Applause] days so this election this election and our fight is a fight for the promise of America a promise I love you and ours is a fight for the promise the promise of America a promise of freedom of opportunity and Justice not just for some but for all but what we know is as we fight to move our nation forward Donald Trump intends to pull us back to the past but we're not going back we are not going back we're not going back we're not going back we not so andless and and and we know we know what that would look like right so intends to pull us back including back to a time before workers had the freedom to organize as President we will always remember Donald Trump blocked overtime benefits from millions of workers Tyrese talked a bit about this and opposed efforts to raise the minimum wage he appointed Union Busters to the National Labor Relations Board and he supported so-called right to work laws and well here's the thing here's the thing we have a choice here right and and we're not going back because we also know that if Donald Trump were reelected he intends to give tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations he intends to cut Social Security and Medicare he wants to impose what in effect is a national sales tax on everyday products and basic necessities that will cost an economist have said this that will cost a typical American Family almost $4,000 a year he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act and take us back to a time in our country which most of us remember when insurance companies you remember had the power to deny people coverage based on a pre-existing condition remember that deny people children who had asthma a survivor of breast cancer a grandparent with diabetes look America has tried those failed policies before and they are failed policies and we are not going back we are not going back we are not going back and instead and instead we fight for a future a future where no person has to go broke just cuz they got sick and so when I am President we will continue to strengthen the Affordable Care Act we will bring down the cost of prescription drugs not only for some but for all [Applause] Americans we we we fight for a future where every worker has the freedom to [Applause] organize and so when I am President we will pass the proa and end union busting once and for all and I'll remind everybody on all these bills we got to elect the Congress who supports that to be able to actually get that work done we fight for a future where every person has the opportunity not just to get by but to get ahead and so when I am President we will continue to build what I call an opportunity economy so that every American has an opportunity to own a home to start a business to build intergenerational wealth for their family we fight for a future where every senior can retire with dignity and so when I am President we will continue to defend Social Security Medicare and pensions just like we have done [Applause] 64 days 64 days the most important election of our lives and probably one of the most important in the life of our nation and here's what I'd say to all the brothers and sisters assembled we know this is going to be a very tight race to the very end we know we know and I got your back but I'm telling you we know how they play we know what they do so let's not pay too much attention to the polls let's know like labor always does we are out here running like we are the underdog in this race because we know what we are fighting for we know what we stand for and that's why we know what we fight for and we got some hard work ahead of us but again we all like hard work cuz hard work is good [Applause] work and to do that hard work I'm going to count on everyone here all the leaders here for your work for you're organizing knocking on doors and getting folks to the pole cuz put bluntly Michigan y'all know how to win you know how to win you know how to win so today I ask Detroit Michigan are you ready to have your voices heard do we believe in Freedom do we believe in Opportunity do we believe in the promise of a man America and are we ready to fight for it and when we fight we win God bless you good afternoon Detroit oh it's good to be in the house of Labor can we hear for Tyres [Applause] tyes I want to thank you for your extraordinary leadership and all of your words and the heart and soul that you put into your work like I know all the members of Luna and everyone here does every day because we love our country and we know it is at stake thank you Ty thank you so it is so good to be with so many incredible leaders and elected officials who are here Governor Whitmore was here earlier senator staban now your next United States Senator representative Elisa slen and I always want to thank representatives dingles there where is she there she there she is Step stinar all of you for the work that you do every day and to all the labor leaders who are here I thank you all for your extraordin work don't we love Labor Day we love Labor Day it's always been that way right the way we celebrate Labor Day is we know that hard work is good work we know that when we organize when we bring everyone together it's a joyful moment where we are committed to doing the hard work of lifting up America's families and I want to thank everyone here for that work and the way you do it every day including General president Booker of the [Applause] labors president Fain of UAW president pringo of Nea president s of the utility workers and president Wine Garden of the AFT and thank you to all of the union members who are here this afternoon so on Labor Day and every day we celebrate the Dignity of work the Dignity of work we celebrate unions because unions helped build America and unions helped build America's middle class it is true across our nation and it is true here in Detroit nearly 140 years ago in this very City 10,000 people marched in one of our nation's first Labor Day [Music] parades many Health signs that read divided we can beg united we can demand for generation s in Detroit and across our nation the brothers and sisters of Labor have stood together to righteously demand Fair pay better benefits and safe working conditions and let me say every person in our nation has benefited from that [Applause] work everywhere I go I tell people look you may not be a union member you better than a a union member for the 5 day work week you better thank a union member for sick leave you better thank a union member for paid leave you better thank a union member for vacation time because what we know is when union wages go up everybody's wages go up when Union workplaces are safer every workplace is safer when unions are strong America is strong we know what we're talking about the labor movement has always understood the power of the collect Ive and the power of unity the power of unity and while we are fighting so much nonsense that is about trying to divide our country trying to pull us apart look to what the history and the present of Labor tells us about the power of the collective and unity the spirit of that work as much as the product of that work is very telling and gives us really good lessons about what creates strength and you know many of you know my parents met while they were active in the Civil Rights Movement so when I was young my parents I see some young leaders here today when I was young my parents would take me to the meetings I see our young leaders and and and take me to the marches I was in a stroller and from a very young age I learned that when people stand together when we join voices knowing that the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us when we join those voices we can drive extraordinary change which is why I believe in my heart and soul no one should ever be made to fight alone we are all in this together we are all in this [Applause] together but I'll tell you I think that there has been a certain backward thinking approach over the last several years which is to suggest some folks them folks to suggest that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down instead of what we know the true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up who you lift up that's the measure of the strength of a leader let's stop with the nonsense and in this election we all here know there are two very different visions for our nation ours focused on the future the other focused let's just get through the next 64 days [Applause] H and ours yes my dear brother is focused on the future and theirs is focused on the past and we fight for the future we fight for a future where all people receive dig and respect and opportunity for not just for some but for all that's what we are fighting for and so we are 64 days out from the election day and in Michigan mail and absentee voting starts in 24 days 24 [Applause] days so this election this election in our fight is a fight for the promise of America a promise I love you and ours is a fight for the promise the promise of America a promise of freedom of opportunity and Justice not just for some but for all but what we know is as we find to move our nation forward Donald Trump intends to pull us back to the past but we're not going back we are not going back we're not going back not so andless and and and we know we know what that would look like right so intends to pull us back including back to a time before workers had the freedom to organize as President we will always remember Donald Trump blocked overtime benefits from millions of workers Tyrese talked a bit about this and opposed efforts to raise the minimum wage he appointed Union Busters to the National Labor Relations Board and he support Ed socalled right to work laws and well here's the thing here's the thing we have a choice here right and and we're not going back because we also know that if Donald Trump were reelected he intends to give tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations he intends to cut Social Security and Medicare he wants to impose what in effect is a national sales tax on everyday products and basic necessities that will cost an economist have said this that will cost a typical American Family almost $4,000 a year he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act and take us back to a time in our country which most of us remember when insurance companies you remember had the power to deny people coverage based on a pre-existing condition remember that deny people children who had asthma a survivor of breast cancer a grandparent with diabetes look America has tried those failed policies before and they are failed policies and we are not going back we are not going back we are not going and instead and instead we fight for a future a future where no person has to go broke just because they got sick and so when I am President we will continue to strengthen the Affordable Care Act we will bring down the cost of prescription drugs not only for some but for all Americans we we fight for a future where every worker has the freedom to [Applause] organize and so when I am President we will pass the proa and end union busting once and for all and I'll remind everybody on these bills we got to elect the Congress who supports that to be able to actually get that work done we fight for a future where every person has the opportunity not just to get by but to get ahead and so when I am President we will continue to build what I call an opportunity economy so that every American has an opportunity to own a home to start a business to build intergenerational wealth for their family we fight for a future where every senior can retire with dignity and so when I am President we will continue to defend Social Security Medicare and pensions just like we have done [Applause] [Applause] 64 days 64 days the most important election of our lives and probably one of the most important in the life of our nation and here's what I'd say to all the brothers and sisters assemble we know this is going to be a very tight race at the very end we know we know and I got your back but I'm telling you we know how they play we know what they do so let's not pay too much attention to the polls let's know like labor always does we are out here running like we are the underdog in this race because we know what we are fighting for we know what we stand for and that's why we know what we fight for and we got some hard work ahead of us but again we all like hard work cuz hard work is good [Applause] work and to do that hard work I'm going to count on everyone here all the leaders here for your work for you're organizing knocking on doors and getting folks to the polls cuz put bluntly Michigan y'all know how to win you know how to win you know how to win so today I ask Detroit Michigan are you ready to have your voices heard do we believe in Freedom do we believe in Opportunity do we believe in the promise of America and are we ready to fight for it and when we fight we win God bless you good afternoon Detroit oh it's good to be in the house of Labor can we hear for Tyrese [Applause] tyres I want to thank you for your extraordinary leadership and all of your words and the heart and soul that you put into your work like I know all the members of Luna and everyone here does every day because we love our country and we know what is at stake thank you tyr thank you so it is so good to be with so many incredible leaders and elected officials who are here here Governor Whitmer was here earlier senator staban now your next United States Senator representative Elisa [Applause] sloin and I always want to thank representatives dingles there is she there she there she is Stevens stinar all of you for the work that you do every day and to all the labor leaders who are here I thank you for your extraordinary work don't we love Labor Day we love Labor Day it's always been that way right the way we celebrate Labor Day is we know that hard work is good work we know that when we organize when we bring everyone together it's a joyful moment where we are committed to doing the hard work of lifting up America's families and I want to thank everyone here for that work and the way you do it it every day including General president Booker of the [Applause] labors president Fain of UAW president Pringle of Nea president seven of the utility workers and president wi Garden of the aft and thank you to all of the union members who are here this afternoon so on Labor Day and every day we celebrate the Dignity of work the Dignity of work we celebrate unions because unions helped build America and unions helped build America's middle class it is true across our nation and it is true here in Detroit nearly 140 years ago in this very City 10,000 people marched in one of our nation's first Labor Day [Music] parades many Health signs that read divided we can beg united we can demand for Generations in Detroit and across our nation the brothers and sisters of Labor have stood together to righteously demand Fair pay better benefits and safe working conditions and let me say every person in our nation has benefited from that [Applause] work everywhere I go I tell people look you may not be a union member you better thank a union member for the 5 day work week you better thank a union member for sick leave you better thank a union member for paid leave you better thank a union member for vacation time because what we know is when union wages go up everybody's wages go up when Union workplaces are safer every workplace is safer when unions are strong America is strong we know what we're talking about the labor movement has always understood the power of the collective and the power of unity the power of unity and while we are fighting so much nonsense that is about trying to divide our country trying to pull us apart yes look to what the history and the present of Labor tells us about the power of the collective and unity the spirit of that work as much as the product of that work is very telling and gives us really good lessons about what creates strength and you know many of you know my parents met while they were active in the Civil Rights Movement so when I was young my parents I see some young leaders here today when I was young my parents would take me to the meetings I see our young leaders and and and take me to the March as I was in a stroller and from a very young age I learned that when people stand together when we join voices knowing that the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us when we join those voices we can drive extraordinary change which is why I believe in my heart and soul no one should ever ever be made to fight alone we are all in this together we are all in this [Applause] together but I'll tell you I think that there has been a certain backward thinking approach over the last several years which is to suggest some folks them folks to suggest that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down instead of what we know the true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up who you lift up that's the measure of the strength of a leader let's stop with the nonsense and in this election we all here know there are two very very different Visions for our nation ours focused on the future the other focused let's just get through the next 64 days h [Applause] on and ours yes my dear brother is focused on the future and theirs is focused on the past and we fight for the future we fight for a future we're all people receive dignity and respect and opportunity for not just for some but for all that's what we are fighting for and so we are 64 days out from the election day and in Michigan mail and absentee voting starts in 24 days 24 [Applause] days so this is election this election and our fight is a fight for the promise of America a promise I love you that and ours is a fight for the promise the promise of America a promise of freedom of opportunity and Justice not just for some but for all but what we know is as we fight to move our nation forward Donald Trump intends to pull us back to the past but we're not going back we are not going back we're not so and let's and and and we know we know what that would look like right so intends to pull us back including back to a time before workers had the freedom to organize as President we will always remember Donald Trump blocked overtime benefits from millions of workers Tyrese talked a bit about this and opposed efforts to raise the minimum wage he appointed Union Busters to the National Labor Relations Board and he supported so-called right to work laws and if well here's the thing here's the thing we have a choice here right and and we're not going back because we also know that if Donald Trump were reelected he intends to give tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations he intends to cut Social security and Medicare he wants to impose what in effect is a national sales tax on everyday products and basic necessities that will cost an economist have said this that will cost a typical American Family almost $4,000 a year he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act and take us back to a time in our country which most of us remember when insurance companies you remember had the power to deny people coverage based on a pre-existing condition remember that deny people children who had asthma a survivor of breast cancer a grandparent with diabetes look America has tried those failed policies before and they are failed policies and we are not going back we are not going back we are not going back and instead and instead we fight for a future a future where no person has to go broke just CU they got sick and so when I am President we will continue to strengthen the Affordable Care Act we will bring down the cost of prescription drugs not only for some but for all Americans we we fight for a future where every worker has the freedom to [Applause] organize and so when I am President we will pass the pro act and end union busting once and for all and I'll remind everybody on all these bills we got to elect a congress who supports that to be able to actually get that work done we fight for a future where every person has the opportunity not just to get by but to get ahead and so when I am President we will continue to build what I call an opportunity economy so that every American has an opportunity to own a home to start a business to build intergenerational wealth for their family we fight for a future where every senior can retire with dignity and so when I am President we will continue to defend Social Security Medicare and pensions just like we have done [Applause] [Applause] 64 days 64 days the most important election of our lives and probably one of the most important in the life of our nation and here's what I'd say to all the brothers and sisters assembled we know this is going to be a very tight race to the very end we know we know and I got your back but I'm telling you we know how they play we know what they do so let's not pay too much attention to the polls let's know like labor always does we are out here running like we are the underdog in this race because we know what we are fighting for we know what we stand for and that's why we know what we fight [Applause] for and we got some hard work ahead of us but again we all like hard work cuz hard work is good [Applause] work and to do that hard work I'm going to count on everyone here all the leaders here for your work for your organizing knocking on doors and getting folks to the polls cuz put bluntly Michigan y'all know how to win you know how to win you know how to win so today I ask Detroit Michigan are you ready to have your voices heard do we believe in Freedom do we believe in opportunity do we believe in the promise of America and are we ready to fight for it and when we fight we win God bless you good afternoon Detroit oh it's good to be in the house of Labor can we hear for Tyrese [Applause] Ty I want to thank you for your extraordinary leadership and all of your words and the heart and soul that you put into your work like I know all the members of Luna and everyone here does every day because we love our country and we know what is at stake thank you tyres thank you so it is so good to be with so many incredible leaders and elected officials who are here Governor Whitmer was here earlier senator staban now your next United States Senator representative Elisa sloin and I always want to thank representatives dingles there where is she there she there she is Steven stinar all of you for the work that you do every day and to all the labor leaders who are here I thank you all for your extraordinary work don't we love Labor Day we love Labor Day it's always been that way right the way we celebrate Labor Day is we know that hard work is good work we know that when we organize when we bring everyone together it's a joyful moment where we are committed to doing the hard work of lifting up America's families and I want to thank everyone here for that work and the way you do it every day including General president Booker of the [Applause] labors president Fain of UAW president Pringle of Nea president seven of the utility workers and president Wine Garden of the aft and thank you to all of the union members who are here this afternoon so on Labor Day and every day we celebrate the Dignity of work the Dignity of work we celebrate unions because unions helped build America and unions help build America's middle class it is true across our nation and it is true here in Detroit nearly 140 years ago in this very City 10,000 people marched in one of our nation's first Labor Day [Music] parades many heal signs that read divided we can beg united we can demand for Generations in Detroit and across our nation the brothers and sisters of Labor have stood together to righteously demand Fair pay better benefits and safe working conditions and let me say every person in our nation has benefited from that [Applause] work Everywhere I Go I tell people look you may not be a union member you better thank a union member for the 5 day work week you better thank a union member for sick leave you better thank a union member for paid leave you better thank a union member for vacation time because what we know is when you un wages go up everybody's wages go up when Union workplaces are safer every workplace is safer when unions are strong America is strong we know what we're talking about the labor movement has has always understood the power of the collective and the power of unity the power of unity and while we are fighting so much nonsense that is about trying to divide our country trying to pull us apart look to what the history and the present of Labor tells us about the power of the collective and unity the spirit of that work as much as the product of that work is very telling and gives us really good lessons about what creates strength and you know many of you know my parents met while they were active in the Civil Rights Movement so when I was young my parents I see some young leaders here today when I was young my parents would take me to the meetings I see our young leaders and and and take me to the marches I was in a stroller and from a very young age I learned that when people stand together when we join voices knowing that the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us when we join those voices we can drive extraordinary change which is why I believe in my heart and soul no one should ever be made to fight alone we are all in this together we are all in this [Applause] together but I'll tell you I think that there has been a certain backward thinking approach over the last several years which is to suggest some folks them folks to suggest that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down instead of what we know the true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up who you lift up that's the measure of the strength of a leader let's stop with the nonsense and in this election we all here know there are two very different Visions for our nation ours focused on the future the other focused let's just get through the next 64 [Applause] days and ours yes my dear brother is focused on the future and theirs is focused on the past and we fight for the future we fight for a future where all people receive dignity and respect and opportunity for not just for some but for all that's what we are fighting for and so we are 64 days out from the election day and in Michigan mail and absentee voting starts in 24 days 24 days [Applause] so this election this election and our fight is a fight for the promise of America a promise I love you guys and ours is a fight for the promise the promise of America a promise of freedom of opportunity and Justice not just for some but for all [Applause] but what we know is as we fight to move our nation forward Donald Trump intends to pull us back to the past but we're not going back we are not going back we're not going back we not going we going we going so andless and and we know we know what that would look like right so intends to pull us back including back to a time before workers had the freedom to organize as President we will always remember Donald Trump blocked overtime benefits from millions of workers Tyrese talked a bit about this and opposed efforts to raise the minimum wage he appointed Union Busters to the National Labor Relations Board and he supported so-called right to work laws and here's the thing here's the thing we have a choice here right and and we're not going back because we also know that if Donald Trump were reelected he intends to give tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations he intends to cut Social Security and Medicare he wants to impose what in effect is a national sales tax on everyday products and basic necessities that will cost an economist have said this that will cost a typical American Family almost $4,000 a year he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act and take us back to a time in our country which most of us remember when insurance companies you remember had the power to deny people coverage based on a pre-existing condition remember that deny people children who had asthma a survivor of breast cancer a grandparent with diabetes look America has tried those failed policies before and they are failed policies and we are not going back we are not going back we are not going back and instead and instead we fight for a future a future where no person has to go broke just CU they got sick and so when I am President we will continue to strengthen the Affordable Care Act we will bring down the cost of prescription drugs not only for some but for all all [Applause] Americans we we fight for a future where every worker has the freedom to [Applause] organize and so when I am President we will pass the proa and end union busting once and for all and I'll remind everybody on all these bills we got to elect the Congress who supports that to be able to actually get that work done we fight for a future where every person has the opportunity not just to get by but to get ahead and so when I am President we will continue to build what I call an opportunity economy so that every American has an opportunity to own a home to start a business to build intergenerational wealth for their fam we fight for our future where every senior can retire with dignity and so when I am President we will continue to defend Social Security Medicare and pensions just like we have done [Applause] [Applause] 64 days 64 days the most important election of our lives and probably one of the most important in the life of our nation and here's what I'd say to all the brothers and sisters assembled we know this is going to be a very tight race to the very end we know we know and I got your back but I'm telling you we know how they play we know what they do so let's not pay too much attention to the polls let's know like labor always does we are out here running like we are the underdog in this race because we know what we are fighting for we know what we stand for and that's why we know what we fight for and we got some hard work ahead of us but again we all like hard work cuz hard work is good [Applause] work and to do that hard work I'm going to count on everyone here all the leaders here for your work for you're organizing knocking on doors and getting folks to the polls cuz put bluntly Michigan y'all know how to win you know how to win you know how to win so today I ask Detroit Michigan are you ready to have your voices heard do we believe in Freedom do we we believe in Opportunity do we believe in the promise of America and are we ready to fight for it and when we fight we win God bless you good afternoon Detroit oh it's good to be in the house of Labor can we hear from [Applause] Tyrese Tyrese I want to thank you for your extraordinary leadership and all of your words and the heart and soul that you put into your work like I know all the members of Luna and everyone here does every day because we love our country and we know it is at stake thank you tyr thank so it is so good to be with so many incredible leaders and elected officials who are here Governor Whitmer was here earlier senator staban now your next United States Senator representative Elisa slin and I always want to thank representatives dingles there is she there she there she is Step stinar all of you for the work that you do every every day and to all the labor leaders who are here I thank you all for your extraordinary work don't we love Labor Day we love Labor Day it's always been that way right the way we celebrate Labor Day is we know that hard work is good work we know that when we organize when we bring everyone together it's a joyful moment where we are committed to doing the hard work of lifting up America families and I want to thank everyone here for that work and the way you do it every day including General president Booker of the [Applause] laborers president Fain of UAW president Pringle of Nea president s of the utility workers and President we Garden of the aft and thank you to all of the union members who are here this afternoon so on Labor Day and every day we celebrate the Dignity of work the Dignity of work we celebrate unions because unions helped build America and unions help build America's middle class it is true across our nation and it is true here in Detroit nearly 140 years ago in this very City 10,000 people marched in one of our nation's first Labor Day [Music] parades many held signs that read divided we can beg united we can demand for Generations in Detroit and across our nation the brothers and sisters of Labor have stood together to righteously demand Fair pay better benefits and safe working conditions and let me say every person in our nation has benefited from that work everywhere I go I tell people look you may not be a union member you better thank a union member for the 5 day work week you better thank a union member for sick leave you better thank a union member for paid leave you better thank a union member for vacation time because what we know is when union wages go up everybody's wages go up when Union workplaces are safer every workplace is safer when unions are strong America is strong we know what we're talking about the labor movement has always understood the power of the collective and the power of unity the power of unity and while we are fighting so much nonsense that is about trying to divide our country trying to pull us apart look to what the history and the present of Labor tells us about the power of the collective imunity the spirit of that work as much as the product of that work is very telling and gives us really good lessons about what creates strength and you know many of you know my parents met while they were active in the Civil Rights Movement so when I was young my parents I see some young leaders here today when I was young my parents would take me to the meetings I see our young leaders and and and take me to the marches I an a stroller and from a very young age I learned that when people stand together when we join voices knowing that the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us when we join those voices we can drive extraordinary change which is why I believe in my heart and soul no one should ever be made to fight alone we are all in this together we are all in this [Applause] together but I'll tell you I think that there has been a certain backward thinking approach over the last several years which is to suggest some folks them folks to suggest that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down instead of what we know the true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up who you lift up that's the measure of the strength of a leader let's stop with the nonsense and in this election we all here know there are two very different Visions for our nation ours focused on the future the other focused let's just get through the next 64 days [Applause] H and ours yes my dear brother is focused on the future and theirs is focused on the past and we fight for the future we fight for a future where all people receive dignity and respect an opportunity for not just for some but for all that's what we are fighting for and so we are 64 days out from the election day and in Michigan mail and absentee voting starts in 24 days 24 days [Applause] so this election this election and our fight is a fight for the promise of America a promise I love you and ours is a fight for the promise the promise of America a promise of freedom of opportunity and Justice not just for some but for all [Applause] but what we know is as we fight to move our nation forward Donald Trump intends to pull us back to the past but we're not going back we are not going back we're not going back we're not going back we're not going so andless and and and we know we know what that would look like right so intends to pull us back including back to a time before workers had the freedom to organize as President we will always remember Donald Trump blocked overtime benefits from millions of workers Tyrese talked a bit about this and opposed efforts to raise the minimum wage he appointed Union Busters to the National Labor Relations Board and he supported so-called right to work laws and well here's the thing here's the thing we have a choice here right and and we're not going back because we also know that if Donald Trump were reelected he intends to give tax cuts to Bill Millionaires and big corporations he intends to cut Social Security and Medicare he wants to impose what in effect is a national sales tax on everyday products and basic necessities that will cost an economist have said this that will cost a typical American Family almost $4,000 a year he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act and take us back to a time in our country which most of us remember when insurance companies you remember had the power to deny people coverage based on a pre-existing condition remember that deny people the children who had asthma a survivor of breast cancer a grandparent with diabetes look America has tried those failed policies before and they are failed policies and we are not going back we are not going back we are not going back and instead and instead we fight for a future a future where no person has to go broke just CU they got sick and so when I am President we will continue to strengthen the Affordable Care Act we will bring down the cost of prescription not only for some but for all [Applause] Americans we we fight for a future where every worker has the freedom to [Applause] organize and so when I am President we will pass the proa and end union busting once and for all and I'll remind everybody on all these bills we got to elect the Congress who supports that to be able to actually get that work done we fight for a future where every person has the opportunity not just to get by but to get ahead and so when I am President we will continue to build what I call an opportunity economy so that every American has an opportunity to own a home to start a business to build intergenerational wealth for their family we fight for a future where every senior can retire with dignity and so when I am President we will continue to defend Social Security Medicare and pensions just like we have [Applause] done 64 days 64 days the most important election of our lives and probably one of the most important in the life of our nation and here's what I'd say to all the brothers and sisters assembled we know this is going to be a very tight race to the very end we know we know and I got your back but I'm telling you we know how they play we know what they do so let's not pay too much attention to the polls let's know like labor always does we are out here running like we are the underdog in this race because we know what we are fighting for we know what we stand for and that's why we know what we fight for and we got some hard work ahead of us but again we all like hard work cuz hard work is good [Applause] work and to do that hard work I'm going to count on everyone here all the leaders here for you work you're organizing knocking on doors and getting folks to the polls cuz put bluntly Michigan y'all know how to win you know how to win you know how to win so today I ask Detroit Michigan are you ready to have your voices heard do we believe in Freedom [Applause] do we believe in Opportunity do we believe in the promise of America and are we ready to fight for it and when we fight we win God bless you good afternoon Detroit oh it's good to be in the house of Labor can we hear for [Applause] Tyrese tyres I want to thank you for your extraordinary leadership and all of your words and the heart and soul that you put into your work like I know all the members of Luna and everyone here does every day because we love our country and we know it is at stake thank you Tyreek thank you so it is so good to be with so many incredible leaders and elected officials who are here Governor Whitmer was here earlier senator staban now your next United States Senator representative Elisa slen and I always want to thank representatives dingles there is she there she there she is Steven stinar all of you for the work that you do every day and to all the labor leaders who are here I thank you all for your extraordinary work don't we love Labor Day we love Labor Day it's always been that way right the way we celebrate Labor Day is we know that hard work is good work we know that when we organize when we bring everyone together it's a joyful moment where we are committed to doing the the hard work of lifting up America's families and I want to thank everyone here for that work and the way you do it every day including General president Booker of the [Applause] laborers president Fain of UAW president Pringle of Nea president seven of the utility workers and President W Garden of the AFT and thank you to all of the union members who are here this afternoon so on Labor Day and every day we celebrate the Dignity of work the Dignity of work we celebrate unions because unions helped build America and unions helped build America's middle class it is true across our nation and it is true here in Detroit nearly 140 years ago in this very City 10,000 people marched in one of our nation's first Labor Day [Music] parades many Health signs that read divided we can beg you united we can demand for Generations in Detroit and across our nation the brothers and sisters of Labor have stood together to righteously demand Fair pay better benefits and safe working conditions and let me say every person in our nation has benefited from that work everywhere I go I tell people look you may not be a union member you better than a union member for the 5 day work week you better thank a union member for sick leave you better thank a union member for paid leave you better thank a union member for vacation time because what we know is when union wages go up everybody's wages go up when Union workplaces are safer every workplace is safer when unions are strong America is strong we know what we're talking about the labor movement has always understood the power of the collective and the power of unity the power of unity and while we are fighting so much nonsense that is about trying to divide our country trying to pull us apart look to what the history and the present of Labor tells us about the power of the collective and unity the spirit of that work as much as the product of that work is very telling and gives us really good lessons about what creates strength and you know many of you know my parents met while they were active in the Civil Rights Movement so when I was young my parents I see some young leaders here today when I was young my parents would take me to the meetings I see our young leaders and and and take me to the March as I was in a stroller and from a very young age I learned that when people stand together when we join voices knowing that the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us when we join those voices we can drive extraordinary change which is why I believe in my heart and soul no one should ever be made to fight alone we are all in this together we are all in this [Applause] together but I'll tell you I think that there has been a certain backward thinking approach over the last several years which is to suggest some folks them folks to suggest that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down instead of what we know the true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up who you lift up that's the measure of the strength of a leader let's stop with the nonsense [Applause] and in this election we all here know there are two very different Visions for our nation ours focused on the future the other focused let's just get through the next 64 days h [Applause] on and ours yes my dear brother is focused on the future and theirs is focused on the past and we fight for the future we fight for a future where all people receive dignity and respect and opportunity for not just for some but for all that's what we are fighting for and so we are 64 days out from the election day and in Michigan mail and absentee voting starts in 24 days 4 [Applause] days so this election this election and our fight is a fight for the promise of America a promise I love you and ours is a fight for the promise the promise of America a promise of freedom of opportunity and Justice not just for some but for all but what we know is as we fight to move our nation forward Donald Trump intends to pull us back to the past but we're not going back we are not going back we're not going back we're not we not going we not going we not going so and let's and and and we know we know what that would look like right so intends to pull us back including back to a time before workers had the freedom to organize as President we will always remember Donald Trump blocked overtime benefits from millions of workers Tyrese talked a bit about this and opposed efforts to raise the minimum wage he appointed Union Busters to the National Labor Relations Board and he supported so-called right to work laws and well here's the thing here's the thing we have a choice here right and and we're not going back because we also know that if Donald Trump were reelected he intends to give tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations he intends to cut Social Security and Medicare he wants to impose what in effect is a national sales tax on everyday products and basic necessities that will cost an economist have said this that will cost a typical American Family almost $4,000 a year he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act and take us back to a time in our country which most of us remember when insurance companies you remember had the power to deny people coverage based on a pre-existing condition remember that deny people children who had asthma a survivor of breast cancer a grandparent with diabetes look America has tried those failed policies before and they are failed policies and we are not going back we are not going back we are not going back and instead and instead we fight for a future a future where no person has to go broke just CU they got sick and so when I am President we will continue to strengthen the Affordable Care Act we will bring down the cost of prescription drugs not only for some but for all [Applause] Americans we we fight for a future where every worker has the freedom to [Applause] organize and so when I am President we will pass the pro act and end union busting once and for all and I'll remind everybody on all these bills we got to elect the Congress who supports that to be able to actually get that work done we fight for a future where every person has the opportunity not just to get by but to get ahead and so when I am President we will continue to build what I call an opportunity economy so that every American has an opportunity to own a home to start a business to build intergenerational wealth for their family we fight for a future where every senior can retire with dignity and so when I am President we will continue to defend Social Security Medicare and pension just like we have [Applause] done 64 days 64 days the most important election of our lives and probably one of the most important in the life of our nation and here's what I'd say to all the brothers and sisters assembled we know this is going to be a very tight race to the very end we know we know and I got your back but I'm telling you we know how they play we know what they do so let's not pay too much attention to the polls let's know like labor always does we are out here running like we are the Underdog in this race because we know what we are fighting for we know what we stand for and that's why we know what we fight [Applause] for and we got some hard work ahead of us but again we all like hard work cuz hard work is good [Applause] work and to do that hard work I'm going to count on everyone here all the lead ERS here for your work for your organizing knocking on doors and getting folks to the polls cuz put bluntly Michigan y'all know how to win you know how to win you know how to win so today I ask Detroit Michigan are you ready to have your voices heard do we believe in Freedom do we believe in Opportunity do we believe in the promise of America and are we ready to fight for it and when we fight we win God bless you good afternoon Detroit oh it's good to be in the house of L can we hear for [Applause] Tyrese tyres I want to thank you for your extraordinary leadership and all of your words and the heart and soul that you put into your work like I know all the members of Luna and everyone here does every day because we love our country and we know it is at stake thank you tyr thank you so it is so good to be with so many incredible leaders and elected officials who are here Governor Whitmer was here earlier senator staban now your next United States Senator representative Elisa slin and I always want to thank representatives dingles there is she there she there she is stepen stinar all of you for the work that you do every day and to all the labor leaders who are here I thank you all for your extraordinary work don't we love Labor Day we love Labor Day it's always been that way right the way we celebrate Labor Day is we know that hard work is good work we know that when we organize when we bring everyone together it's a joyful moment we are committed to doing the hard work of lifting up America's families and I want to thank everyone here for that work and the way you do it every day including General president Booker of the [Applause] labors president Fain of UAW president Pringle of Nea president s of the utility workers and president Wine Garden of the AFT and thank you to all of the union members who are here this afternoon so on Labor Day and every day we celebrate the Dignity of work the Dignity of work we celebrate unions because unions helped build America and unions help help build America's middle class it is true across our nation and it is true here in Detroit nearly 140 years ago in this very City 10,000 people marched in one of our nation's first Labor Day [Music] parades many Health signs that read divided we can beg united we can demand for Generations in Detroit and across our nation the brothers and sisters of Labor have stood together to righteously demand Fair pay better benefits and safe working conditions and let me say every person in our nation has benefited from that work [Applause] everywhere I go I tell people look you may not be a union member you better thank a union member for the 5 day work week you better thank a union member for sick leave you better thank a union member for paid leave you better thank a union member for vacation time because what we know is when union wages go up everybody's wages go up when Union workplaces are safer every workplace is safer when unions are strong America is strong we know what we're talking about the labor movement has always understood the power of the collective and the power of unity the power of unity and while we are fighting so much nonsense that is about trying to divide our country trying to pull us apart look to what the history and the present of Labor tells us about the power of the collective and unity the spirit of that work as much as the product of that work is very telling and gives us really good lessons about what creates strength and you know many of you know my parents met while they were active in the Civil Rights Movement so when I was young my parents I see some young leaders here today when I was young my parents would take me to the meetings I see our young leaders and and and take me to the marches I was in a stroller and from a very young age I learned that when people stand together when we join voices knowing that the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us when we join those voices we can drive extraord ordinary change which is why I believe in my heart and soul no one should ever be made to fight alone we are all in this together we are all in this [Applause] together but I'll tell you I think that there has been a certain backward thinking approach over the last several years which is to SU suggest some folks them folks to suggest that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down instead of what we know the true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up who you lift up that's the measure of the strength of a leader that's stop with the nonsense and in this election we all here know there are two very different Visions for our nation ours focused on the future the other focused let's just get through the next 64 days how [Applause] on and ours yes my dear brother is focused on the future and theirs is focused on the past and we fight for the future we fight for a future where all people receive dignity and respect and opportunity for not just for some but for all that's what we are fighting for and so we are 64 days out from the election day and in Michigan mail and absentee voting starts in 24 days 24 [Applause] days so this election this election and our fight is a fight for the promise of America a promise I love you that and ours is a fight for the promise the promise of America a promise of freedom of opportunity and justce is not just for some but for all but what we know is as we fight to move our nation forward Donald Trump intends to pull us back to the past but we're not going back we are not going back we're not going back we're not going back we're not going back we're not going so andless and and and we know we know what that would look like right so intends to pull us back including back to a time before workers had the freedom to organize as President we will always remember Donald Trump blocked overtime benefits from millions of workers Tyrese talked a bit about this and opposed efforts to raise the minimum wage he appointed Union Busters to the National Labor Relations Board and he supported so-called right to work laws and if well here's the thing here's the thing we have a choice here right and and we're not going back cuz we also know that if Donald Trump were reelected he intends to give tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations he intends to cut Social Security and Medicare he wants to impose what in effect is a national sales tax on everyday products and basic necessities that will cost an economist have said this that will cost a typical American Family almost $4,000 a year he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act and take us back to a time in our country which most of us remember when insurance companies you remember had the power to deny people coverage based on a pre-existing condition remember that deny people children who had asthma a survivor of breast cancer a grandparent with diabetes look America has tried those failed policies before and they are fail bu policies and we are not going back we are not going back we are not going back and instead and instead we fight for a future a future where no person has to go broke just cuz they got sick and so when I am President we will continue to strengthen the Affordable Care Act we will bring down the cost of prescription drugs not only for some but for all [Applause] Americans we we fight for a future where every worker has the freedom to [Applause] organize and so when I am President we will pass the proa and end union busting once and for all and I'll remind everybody on all these bills we got to elect the Congress who supports that to be able to actually get that work done we fight for a future where every person has the opportunity not just to get by but to get ahead and so and I am President we will continue to build what I call an opportunity economy so that every American has an opportunity to own a home to start a business to build intergenerational wealth for their family we fight for a future where every senior can retire with dignity and so when I am President we will continue to defend Social Security Medicare and pensions just like we have [Applause] done 64 days 64 days the most important election of our lives and probably one of the most important in the life of our nation and here's what I'd say to all the brothers and sisters assembled we know this is going to be a very tight race to the very end we know we know and I got your back but I'm telling you we know how they play we know what they do so let's not pay too much attention to the polls let's know like labor always does we are out here running like we are the underdog in this race because we know what we are fighting for we know what we stand for and that's why we know what we fight for and we got some hard work ahead of us but again we all like hard work cuz hard work is good [Applause] work and to do that hard work I'm going to count on everyone here all the leaders here for your work for your organizing knocking on doors and getting folks to the polls cuz put bluntly Michigan y'all know how to win you know how to win you know how to win so today I ask Detroit Michigan are you ready to have your voices heard do we believe in Freedom do we believe in Opportunity do we believe in the promise of America and are we ready to fight for it and when we fight we win God bless you good afternoon Detroit [Applause] oh it's good to be in the house of Labor can we hear for [Applause] Tyrese tyres I want to thank you for your extraordinary leadership and all of your words and the heart and soul that you put into your work like I know all the members of Luna and everyone here does every day because we love our country and we know it is at stake thank you tyr thank you so it is so good to be with so many incredible leaders and elected officials who are here Governor Whitmer was here earlier senator staban now your next United States Senator representative Elisa slin and I always want to thank representatives dingles there is she there she there she is Step stinar all of you for the work that you do every day and to all the labor leaders who are here I thank you all for your extraordinary work don't we love Labor Day we love Labor Day it's always been that way right the way we celebrate Labor Day is we know that hard work is good work we know that when we organize when we bring everyone together it's joyful moment where we are committed to doing the hard work of lifting up America's families and I want to thank everyone here for that work and the way you do it every day including General president Booker of the [Applause] laborers president Fain of UAW president Pringle of Nea president seven of the utility work workers and president Wine Garden of the AFT and thank you to all of the union members who are here this afternoon so on Labor Day and every day we celebrate the Dignity of work the Dignity of work we celebrate unions because unions helped build America and unions help build America's middle class it is true across our nation and it is true here in Detroit nearly 140 years ago in this very City 10,000 people marched in one of our nation's first Labor Day [Music] parades many held signs that read divided we can beg united we can demand for Generations in Detroit and across our nation the brothers and sisters of Labor have stood together to righteously demand Fair pay better benefits and safe working conditions and let me say every person in our nation has benefited from that [Applause] work everywhere I go I tell people look you may not be a union member you better thank a union member for the 5 day work week you better thank a union member for sick leave you better thank a union member for paid leave you better thank a union member for vacation time because what we know is when union wages go up everybody's wages go up when Union workplaces are safer every workplace is safer when unions are strong America is strong we know what we're talking about the labor movement has always understood the power of the collective and the power of unity the power of unity and while we are fighting so much nonsense that is about trying to divide our country trying to pull us apart look to what the history and the present of Labor tells us about the power of the collective and unity the spirit of that work as much as the product of that work is very telling and gives us really good lessons about what creates strength and you know many of you know my parents met while they were active in the Civil Rights Movement so when I was young my parents I see some young leaders here today when I was young my parents would take take me to the meetings I see our young leaders and and and take me to the marches I was in a stroller and from a very young age I learned that when people stand together when we join voices knowing that the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us when we join those voices we can drive extraordinary change which is why I believe in my heart and soul no one should ever be made to fight alone we are all in this together we are all in this [Applause] together but I'll tell you I think that there has been a certain backward thinking approach over the last several years years which is to suggest some folks them folks to suggest that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down instead of what we know the true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up who you lift up that's the measure of the strength of a leader let's stop with the nonsense and in this election we all here know there are two very different Visions for our nation ours focused on the future the other focused let's just get through the next 64 dayso and ours yes my dear brother is focused on the future and theirs is focused on the past and we fight for the future we fight for a future where all people receive dignity and respect and opportunity for not just for some but for all that's what we are fighting for and so we are 64 days out from the election day and in Michigan mail and absentee voting starts in 20 24 days 24 [Applause] days so this election this election and our fight is a fight for the promise of America a promise I love you guys and ours is a fight for the promise the promise of America a promise of freedom of opportunity and Justice not just for some but for all but what we know is as we fight to move our nation forward Donald Trump intends to pull us back to the past but we're not going back we are not going back we're not going back we're not going back we're not so andless and and and we know we know what that would look like right so intends to pull us back including back to a time before workers had the freedom to organize as President we will always remember Donald Trump blocked overtime benefits from millions of workers Tyrese talked a bit about this and opposed efforts to raise the minimum wage he appointed Union Busters to the National Labor Relations Board and he supported so-called right to work laws and here's the thing here's the thing we have a choice here right and and we're not going back because we also know that if Donald Trump were reelected he intends to give tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations he intends to cut Social Security and Medicare he wants to impose what in effect is a national sales tax on everyday products and basic necessities that will cost an economist have said this that will cost a typical American Family almost $4,000 a year he wants to repeat the Affordable Care Act and take us back to a time in our country which most of us remember when insurance companies you remember had the power to deny people coverage based on a pre-existing condition remember that deny people the children who had asthma a survivor of breast cancer a grandparent with diabetes look America has tried those failed policies before and they are failed policies and we are not going back we are not going back we are not going back and instead and instead we fight for a future a future where no person has to go broke just cuz they got sick and so when I am President we will continue to strengthen the Affordable Care Act we will bring down the cost of prescription drugs not only for some but for all [Applause] Americans we we fight for a future where every worker has the freedom to [Applause] organize and so when I am President we will pass the proa and end union busting once and for all and I'll remind everybody on all these bills we got to elect a congress who supports that to be able to actually get that work done we fight for a future where every person has the opportunity not just to get by but to get ahead [Applause] and so when I am President we will continue to build what I call an opportunity economy so that every American has an opportunity to own a home to start a business to build intergenerational wealth for their fam we fight for a future where every senior can retire with dignity and so when I am President we will continue to defend Social Security Medicare and pensions just like we have [Applause] done 64 days 64 days the most important election of our lives and probably one of the most important in the life of our nation and here's what I'd say to all the brothers and sisters assembled we know this is going to be a very tight race to the very end we know we know and I got your back but I'm telling you we know how they play we know what they do so let's not pay too much attention to the polls let's know like labor all always does we are out here running like we are the underdog in this race because we know what we are fighting for we know what we stand for and that's why we know what we fight for and we got some hard work ahead of us but again we all like hard work cuz hard work is good work and to do that hard work I'm going to count on everyone here all the leaders here for your work for you're organizing knocking on doors and getting folks to the polls cuz put bluntly Michigan y'all know how to win you know how to win you know how to win so today I ask Detroit Michigan are you ready ready to have your voices heard do we believe in Freedom do we believe in Opportunity do we believe in the promise of America and are we ready to fight for it and when we fight we win God bless you good afternoon Detroit [Applause] oh it's good to be in the house of Labor can we hear from [Applause] Tyrese Tyrese I want to thank you for your extraordinary leadership and all of your words and the heart and soul that you put into your work like I know all the members of Luna and everyone here does every day because we love our country and we know it is at stake thank you s thank you so it is so good to be with so many incredible leaders and elected officials who are here Governor Whitmer was here earlier senator staban now your next United States Senator representative Elisa sloin and I always want to thank Representatives Dingle there is she there she there she is Steven stinar all of you for the work that you do every day and to all the labor leaders who are here I thank you all for your extraordinary work don't we love Labor Day we love Labor Day it's always been that way right the way we celebrate Labor Day is we know that hard work is good work we know that when we or oriz when we bring everyone together it's a joyful moment where we are committed to doing the hard work of lifting up America's families and I want to thank everyone here for that work and the way you do it every day including General president Booker of the [Applause] laborers president Fain of UAW president Pringle of Nea president seven of the utility workers and president Wine Garden of the AFT and thank you to all of the union members who are here this afternoon so on Labor Day and every day we celebrate the Dignity of work the Dignity of work we celebrate unions because unions helped build America and unions helped build America's middle class it is true across our nation and it is true here in Detroit nearly 140 years ago in this very City 10,000 people marched in one of our nation's first Labor Day [Music] parades many any health signs that read divided we can beg united we can demand for Generations in Detroit and across our nation the brothers and sisters of Labor have stood together to righteously demand Fair pay better benefits and safe working conditions and let me say every person in our nation has benefited from that [Applause] work everywhere I go I tell people look you may not be a union member you better thank a union member for the 5 day work week you better thank a union member for sick leave you better thank a union member for paid leave you better thank a union member for vacation time because what we know is when union wages go up everybody's wages go up when Union workplaces are safer every workplace is safer when unions are strong America is strong we know what we're talking about the labor movement has always understood the power of the collective and the power of unity the power of unity and while we are fighting so much nonsense that is about trying to divide our country trying to pull us apart look to what the history and the present of Labor tells us about the power of the collective and unity the spirit of that work as much as the product of that work is very telling and gives us really good lessons about what creates strength and you know many of you know my parents met while they were active in the Civil Rights Movement so when I was young my parents I see some young leaders here today when I was young my parents would take me to the meetings I see our young leaders and and and take me to the marches I was in a stroller and from a very young age I learned that when people stand together when we join voices knowing that the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us when we join the those voices we can drive extraordinary change which is why I believe in my heart and soul no one should ever be made to fight alone we are all in this together we are all in this [Applause] together but I'll tell you I think that there has been a certain backward thinking approach over the last several years which is to suggest some folks them folks to suggest that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down instead of what we know the true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up who you lift up that's the measure of the strength of a lead let's stop with the nonsense and in this election we all here know there are two very different Visions for our nation ours focused on the future the other focused let's just get through the next 64 days h on [Applause] and ours yes my dear brother is focused on the future and theirs is focused on the past and we fight for the future we fight for a future where all people receive dignity and respect an opportunity for not just for some but for all that's what we are fighting for and so we are 64 days out from the election day and in Michigan mailing absentee voting starts in 24 days 24 [Applause] days so this election this election and our fight is a fight for the promise of America a promise I love you and ours is a fight for the promise the promise of America a promise of freedom of opportunity and Justice not just for some but for all but what we know is as we fight to move our nation forward Donald Trump intends to pull us back to the past but we're not going back we are not going back we're not going back so and let's and and and we know we know what that would look like right so intends to pull us back including back to a time before workers had the freedom to organize as President we will always remember Donald Trump blocked overtime benefits from millions of workers Ty talked a bit about this and opposed efforts to raise the minimum wage he appointed Union Busters to the National Labor Relations Board and he supported so-called right to work laws and well here's the thing here's the thing we have a choice here right and and we're not going back because we also know that if Donald Trump were reelected he intends to give tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations he intends to cut Social Security and Medicare he wants to impose what in effect is a national sales tax on everyday products and basic necessities that will cost an economist have said this that will cost a typical American Family almost $4,000 a year he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act and take us back to a time in our country which most of us remember when insurance companies you remember had the power to deny people coverage based on a pre-existing condition remember that deny people children who had asthma a survivor of breast cancer a grandparent with diabetes look America has tried those failed policies before and they are failed policies and we are not going back we are not going back we are not going back and instead and instead we fight for a future a future where no person has to go broke just cuz they got sick and so when I am President we will continue to strengthen the Affordable Care Act we will bring down the cost of prescription drugs not only for some but for all [Applause] Americans we we fight for a future where every worker has the freedom to [Applause] organize and so when I am President we will pass the pro act and and union busting once and for all and I'll remind everybody on all these bills we got to elect the Congress who supports that to be able to actually get that work done we fight for a future where every person has the opportunity not just to get by but to get ahead and so when I am President we will continue to build what I call an opportunity economy so that every American has an opportunity to own a home to start a business to build intergenerational wealth for their family we fight for a future where every senior can retire with dignity and so when I am President we will continue to defend Social Security Medicare and pensions just like we have [Applause] done 64 days 64 days the most important election of our line Liv and probably one of the most important in the life of our nation and here's what I'd say to all the brothers and sisters assembled we know this is going to be a very tight race to the very end we know we know and I got your back but I'm telling you we know how they play we know what they do so let's not pay too much attention to the polls let's know like labor always does we are out here running like we are the underdog in this race because we know what we are fighting for we know what we stand for and that's why we know what we fight [Applause] for and we got some hard work ahead of us but again we all like hard work cuz hard work is good work and to do that hard work I'm going to count on everyone here all the leaders here for your work for you're organizing knocking on doors and getting folks to the polls cuz put bluntly Michigan y'all know how to win you know how to win you know how to win so today I ask did Detroit Michigan are you ready to have your voices heard do we believe in Freedom do we believe in Opportunity do we believe in the promise of America and are we ready to fight for it and when we fight we win God bless you good afternoon Detroit [Applause] oh it's good to be in the house of Labor can we hear for [Applause] Tyrese tyres I want to thank you for your extraordinary leadership and all of your words and the heart and soul that you put into your work like I know all the members of Luna and everyone here does every day because we love our country and we know it is at stake thank you tyr thank you so it is so good to be with so many incredible leaders and elected officials who are here Governor Whitmer was here earlier senator staban now your next United States Senator representative Elisa [Applause] slen and I always want to thank representatives dingles there where is she there she there she is Steven stinar all of you for the work that you do every day and to all the labor leaders who are here I thank you all for your extraordinary work don't we love Labor Day we love Labor Day it's always been that way right the way we celebrate Labor Day is we know that hard work is good work we know that when we organize when we bring everyone together it's a joyful moment where we are committed to doing the hard work of lifting up America's families and I want to thank everyone here for that work and the way you do it every day including General president Booker of the [Applause] laborers president Fain of UAW president Pringle of Nea president s of the utility workers and president wi Garden of the AFT and thank you to all of the union members who are here this afternoon so on Labor Day and every day we celebrate the Dignity of work the Dignity of work we celebrate unions because unions helped build America and unions helped build America's middle class it is true across our nation and it is true here in Detroit nearly 140 years ago in this very City 10,000 people marched in one of our nation's first Labor Day parades many Health signs that read divided we can beg united we can demand for Generations in Detroit and across our nation the brothers and sisters of Labor have stood together to righteously demand Fair pay better benefits and safe working conditions and let me say every person in our nation has benefited from that [Applause] work everywhere I go I tell people look you may not be a union member you better than a union member for the 5 day work week you better thank a union member for sick leave you better thank a union member for paid leave you better thank a union member for vacation time because what we know is when union wages go up everybody's wages go up when Union workplaces are safer every workplace is safer when unions are strong America is strong we know what we're talking about the labor movement has always understood the power of the collective and the power of unity the power of unity and while we are fighting so much nonsense that is about trying to divide our country trying to pull us apart yes look to what the history and the present of Labor tells us about the power of the collective in unity the spirit of that work as much as the product of that work is very telling and gives us really good lessons about what creates strength and you know many of you know my parents met while they were active in the Civil Rights Movement so when I was young my parents I see some young leaders here today when I was young my parents would take me to the meetings I see our young leaders and and and take me to the marches I was in a stroller and from a very young age I learned that when people stand together when we join voices knowing that the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us when we join those voices we can drive extraordinary change which is why I believe in my heart and soul no one should ever be made to fight alone we are all in this together we are all in this [Applause] together but I'll tell you I think that there has been a certain backward thinking approach over the last several years which is to suggest some folks them folks to suggest that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down instead of what we know the true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up who you LIF up that's the measure of the strength of a leader let's stop with the nonsense and in this election we all here know there are two very different Visions for our nation ours focused on the future the other focused let's just get through the next 64 days h [Applause] and ours yes my dear brother is focused on the future and theirs is focused on the past and we fight for the future we fight for a future where all people receive dignity and respect and opportunity for not just for some but for all that's what we are fighting for and so we are 64 days out from the election day and in Michigan mail and absentee voting starts in 24 days 24 [Applause] days so this election this election and our fight is a fight for the promise of America a promise I love you and ours is a fight for the promise the promise of America a promise of freedom of opportunity and Justice not just for some but for all but what we know is as we fight to move our nation forward Donald Trump intends to pull us back to the past but we're not going back we are not going back not so andless and and and we know we know what that would look like right so intends to pull us back including back to a time before workers had the freedom to organize as President we will always remember Donald Trump blocked overtime benefits from Millions of workers Tyrese talked a bit about this and opposed efforts to raise the minimum wage he appointed Union Busters to the National Labor Relations Board and he supported so-called right to work laws and well here's the thing here's the thing we have a choice here right and and we're not going back because we also know that if Donald Trump were reelected he intends to give tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations he intends to cut Social Security and Medicare he wants to impose what in effect is a national sales tax on everyday products and basic necessities that will cost an economist have said this that will cost a typical American Family almost $4,000 a year he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act and take us back to a time in our country which most of us remember when insurance companies you remember had the power to deny people coverage based on a pre-existing condition remember that deny people children who had asthma a survivor of breast cancer a grandparent with diabetes look America has tried those failed policies before and they are failed policies and we are not going back we are not going back we are not going back and instead and instead we fight for a future a future where no person has to to go broke just cuz they got sick and so when I am President we will continue to strengthen the Affordable Care Act we will bring down the cost of prescription drugs not only for some but for all [Applause] Americans we we fight for a future where every worker has the freedom to [Applause] organize and so when I am President we will pass the proa and end union busting once and for all and I'll remind everybody on all these bills we got to elect the Congress who supports that to be able to actually get that work done we fight for a future where every person has the opportunity not not just to get by but to get ahead and so when I am President we will continue to build what I call an opportunity economy so that every American has an opportunity to own a home to start a business to build intergenerational wealth for their family we fight for a future where every senior can retire with dignity and so so when I am President we will continue to defend Social Security Medicare and pensions just like we have [Applause] done 64 days 64 days the most important election of our lives and probably one of the most important in the life of our nation and here's what I'd say to all the brothers and sisters assemble we know this is going to be a very tight race to the very end we know we know and I got your back but I'm telling you we know how they play we know what they do so let's not pay too much attention to the polls let's know like labor always does we are out here running like we are the underdog in this race because we know what we are fighting for we know what we stand for and that's why we know what we fight for and we got some hard work ahead of us but again we all like hard work cuz hard hard work is good [Applause] work and to do that hard work I'm going to count on everyone here all the leaders here for your work for your organizing knocking on doors and getting folks to the polls cuz put bluntly Michigan y'all know how to win you know how to win you know how to win so today I ask Detroit Michigan are you ready to have your voices heard do we believe in Freedom do we believe in Opportunity do we believe in the promise of America and are we ready to fight for it and when we fight we win God bless you good afternoon Detroit oh it's good to be in the house of lab can we hear for [Applause] Tyrese tyres I want to thank you for your extraordinary leadership and all of your words and the heart and soul that you put into your work like I know all the members of Luna and everyone here does every day because we love our country and we know it is at stake thank you tyr thank you so it is so good to be with so many incredible leaders and elected officials who are here Governor Whitmer was here earlier senator staban now your next United States Senator representative Elisa slin [Applause] and I always want to thank representatives dingles there where is she there she there she is Steven stinar all of you for the work that you do every day and to all the labor leaders who are here I thank you all for your extraordinary work don't we love Labor Day we love Labor Day it's always been that way right the way we celebrate Labor Day is we know that hard work is good work we know that when we organize when we bring everyone together it's a joyful moment where we are committed to doing the hard work of lifting up America's families and I want to thank everyone here for that work and the way you do it every day including General president Booker of the [Applause] labors president Fain of UAW president Pringle of Nea president s of the utility workers and president Wine Garden of the AFT and thank you to all of the union members who are here this afternoon so on Labor Day and every day we celebrate the Dignity of work yes the of work we celebrate unions because unions helped build America and unions helped build America's middle class it is true across our nation and it is true here in Detroit nearly 140 years ago in this very City 10,000 people marched in one of our nation's first first Labor Day [Music] parades many heal signs that read divided we can beg united we can demand for Generations in Detroit and across our nation the brothers and sisters of Labor have stood together to righteously demand Fair pay better benefits and safe working conditions and let me say every person in our nation has benefited from that [Applause] work everywhere I go I tell people look you may not be a union member you better thank a union member for the 5 day work week you better thank a union member for sick leave you better thank a union member for paid leave you better thank a union member for vacation time because what we know is when union wages go up everybody's wages go up when Union workplaces are safer every workplace is safer when unions are strong America is strong we know what we're talking about the labor movement has always understood the power of the collective and the power of unity the power of unity and while we are fighting so much nonsense that is about trying to divide our country trying to pull us apart look to what the history and the present of Labor tells us about the power of the collective and unity the spirit of that work as much as the product of that work is very telling and gives us really good lessons about what creates strength and you know many of you know my parents met while they were active in the Civil Rights Movement so when I was young my parents I see some young leaders here today when I was young my parents would take me to the meetings I see our young leaders and and and take me to the marches I was in a stroller and from a very young age I learned that when people stand together when we join voices knowing that the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us when we join those voices we can drive extraordinary change which is why I believe in my heart and soul no one should ever be made to fight alone we are all in this together we are all in this [Applause] together but I'll tell you I think that there has been a certain backward thinking approach over the last several years which is to suggest some folks them folks to suggest that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down instead of what we know the true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up who you lift oh that's the measure of the strength of a leader let's stop with the nonsense and in this election we all here know there are two very different Visions for our nation ours focused on the future the other focused let's just get through the next 64 days come and ours yes my dear brother is focused on the future and theirs is focused on the past and we fight for the future we fight for a future where all people receive dignity and respect and opportunity for not just for some but for all that's what we are fighting for and so we are 64 days out out from the election day and in Michigan mail and absentee voting starts in 24 days 24 [Applause] days so this election this election and our fight is a fight for the promise of America a promise I love you that and ours is a fight for the promise the promise of America a promise of freedom of opportunity and just is not just for some but for all but what we know is as we fight to move our nation forward Donald Trump intends to pull us back to the past but we're not going back we are not going back we not going so and let's and and and we know we know what that would look like right so intends to pull us back including back to a time before workers had the freedom to organized as President we will always remember Donald Trump blocked overtime benefits from millions of workers Tyrese talked a bit about this and opposed efforts to raise the minimum wage he appointed Union Busters to the National Labor Relations Board and he supported so-called right to work laws and if here's the thing here's the thing we have a choice here right and and we're not going back cuz we also know that if Donald Trump were reelected he intends to give tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations he intends to cut Social Security and Medicare he wants to impose what in effect is a national sales tax on everyday products and basic necessities that will cost an economist have said this that will cost a typical American Family almost $4,000 a year he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act and take us back to a time in our country which most of us remember when insurance companies you remember had the power to deny people coverage based on a pre-existing condition remember that deny people children who had asthma a survivor of breast cancer a grandparent would die diabetes look America has tried those failed policies before and they are failed policies and we are not going back we are not going back we are not going back and instead and instead we fight for a future a f future where no person has to go broke just cuz they got sick and so when I am President we will continue to strengthen the Affordable Care Act we will bring down the cost of prescription drugs not only for some but for all [Applause] Americans we we fight for a future where every worker has the freedom to [Applause] organize and so when I am President we will pass the pro act and end union busting once and for all and I'll remind everybody on all these bills we got to elect the Congress who supports that to be able to actually get that work done we fight for a future where every person has the opportunity not just to get by but to get ahead and so when I am President we will continue to build what I call an opportunity economy so that every American has an opportunity to own a home to start a business to build intergenerational wealth for their family we fight for our future where every sing can retire with dignity and so when I am President we will continue to defend Social Security Medicare and pensions just like we have [Applause] done 64 days 64 days the most important election of our lives and probably one of the most important in the life of our nation and here's what I'd say to all the brothers and sisters assembled we know this is going to be a very tight race to the very end we know we know and I got your back but I'm telling you we know how they play we know what they do so let's not pay too much attention to the polls let's know like labor always does we are out here running like we are the underdog in this race because we know what we are fighting for we know what we stand for and that's why we know what we fight for and we got some hard work ahead of us but again we all like hard work cuz hard work is good [Applause] work and to do that hard work I'm going to count on everyone here all the leaders here for your work for your organizing knocking on doors and getting folks to the polls cuz put bluntly Michigan y'all know how to win you know how to win you know how to win so today I ask Detroit Michigan are you ready to have your voices heard do we believe in Freedom do we believe in Opportunity do we believe in the promise of America and are we ready to fight for it and when we fight we win God bless you good afternoon Detroit oh it's good to be in the house of Labor can we hear for [Applause] Tyrese tyres I want to thank you for your extraordinary leadership and all of your words and the heart and soul that you put into your work like I know all the members of Luna and every everyone here does every day because we love our country and we know it is at stake thank you tyr thank you so it is so good to be with so many incredible leaders and elected officials who are here Governor Whitmer was here earlier senator staban now your next United States Senator representative Elisa slin [Applause] and I always want to thank representatives dingles there is she there she there she is stepen stinar all of you for the work that you do every day and to all the labor leaders who are here I thank you all for your extraordinary work don't we love Labor Day we love Labor Day it's always been that way right the the way we celebrate Labor Day is we know that hard work is good work we know that when we organize when we bring everyone together it's a joyful moment where we are committed to doing the hard work of lifting up America's families and I want to thank everyone here for that work and the way you do it every day including General president Booker of the [Applause] labors president Fain of UAW president Pringle of Nea president seven of the utility workers and president Wine Garden of the AFT and thank you to all of the union members who are here this afternoon so on Labor Day and every day we celebrate the dignity of work the Dignity of work we celebrate unions because unions helped build America and unions helped build America's middle class it is true across our nation and it is true here in Detroit nearly 140 years ago in this very City 10,000 people marched in one of our nation's first Labor Day [Music] parades many held signs that read divided we can beg united we can demand for Generations in Detroit and across our nation the brothers and sisters of Labor have stood together to righteously demand Fair pay better benefits and safe working conditions and let me say every person in our nation has benefited from that [Applause] work everywhere I go I tell people look you may not be a union member you better thank a union member for the 5 day work week you better thank a union member for sick leave you better thank a union member for paid leave you better thank a union member for vacation time because what we know is when union wages go up everybody's wages go up when Union workplaces are safer every workplace is safer when unions are strong America is strong we know what we're talking about the labor movement has always understood the power of the collective and the power of unity the power of unity and while we are fighting so much nonsense that is about trying to divide our country trying to pull us apart look to what the history and the present of Labor tells us about the power of the collective and unity the spirit of that work as much as the product of that work is very telling and gives us really good lessons about what creates strength and you know many of you know my parents met while they were active in the Civil Rights Movement so when I was young my parents I see some young leaders here today when I was young my parents would take me to the meetings I see our young leaders and and and take me to the marches I was in a stroller and from a very young age I learned that when people stand together when we join voices knowing that the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us when we join those voices we can drive extraordinary change which is why I believe in my heart and soul no one should ever be made to fight alone we are all in this together we are all in this together [Applause] but I'll tell you I think that there has been a certain backward thinking approach over the last several years which is to suggest some folks them folks to suggest that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down instead of what we know the true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up who you lift up that's the measure of the strength of a leader let's stop with the nonsense and in this election we all here know there are two very different Visions for our nation ours focused on the future the other focused let's just get through the next 64 days [Applause] H and ours yes my dear brother is focused on the future and theirs is focused on the past and we fight for the future we fight for a future where all people receive dignity and respect and opportunity for not just for some but for all that's what we are fighting for and so we are 64 days out from the election day and in Michigan mail and absentee voting starts in 24 days 24 [Applause] days so this election this election and our fight is a fight for the promise of America a promise I love you and ours is a fight for the promise the promise of America a promise of freedom of opportunity and Justice not just for some but for all but what we know is as we fight to move our nation forward Donald Trump intends to pull us back to the past but we're not going back we are not going back we're not going back we're not going back we're not going so andless and and and we know we know what that would look like right so intends to pull us back including back to a time before workers had the freedom to organize as President we will always remember Donald Trump blocked overtime benefits from millions of workers Tyrese talked a bit about this and opposed efforts to raise the minimum wage he appointed Union Busters to the National Labor Relations Board and he supported so-called right to work laws well here's the thing here's the thing we have a choice here right and and we're not going back because we also know that if Donald Trump were reelected he intends to give tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations he intends to cut Social Security and Medicare he wants to impose what in effect is a national sales tax on everyday products and basic necessities that will cost an economist have said this that will cost a typical American Family almost $44,000 a year he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act and take us back to a time in our country which most of us remember when insurance companies you remember had the power to deny people coverage based on a pre-existing condition remember that deny people children who had asthma surv of breast cancer a grandparent with diabetes look America has tried those failed policies before and they are failed policies and we are not going back we are not going back we are not going back and instead and instead we fight for a future a future where no person has to go broke just because they got sick and so when I am President we will continue to strengthen the Affordable Care Act we will bring down the cost of prescription drugs not only for some but for all [Applause] Americans we we fight for a future where every worker has the freedom to organize [Applause] and so when I am President we will pass the pro act and end union busting once and for all and I'll remind everybody on all these bills we got to elect the Congress who supports that to be able to actually get that work done we fight for our future where every person has the opportunity not just to get by but to get ahead and so when I am President we will continue to build what I call an opportunity economy so that every American has an opportunity to own a home to start a business to build intergenerational wealth for their fam we fight for a future where every senior can retire with dignity and so when I am President we will continue to defend Social Security Medicare and pensions just like we have [Applause] done 64 days 64 days the most important election of our lives and probably one of the most important in the life of our nation and here's what I'd say to all the brothers and sisters assembled we know this is going to be a very tight race to the very end we know we know and I got your back but I'm telling you we know how they play we know what do so let's not pay too much attention to the polls let's know like labor always does we are out here running like we are the underdog in this race because we know what we are fighting for we know what we stand for and that's why we know what we fight [Applause] for and we got some hard work ahead of us but again we all like hard work cuz hard work is good [Applause] work and to do that hard work I'm going to count on everyone here all the leaders here for your work for you're organizing knocking on doors and getting folks to the polls cuz put bluntly Michigan y'all know how to win you know how to win you know how to win so today I ask Detroit Michigan are you ready to have your voices heard do we believe in Freedom do we believe in Opportunity do we believe in the promise of America and are we ready to fight for it and when we fight we win God bless you good afternoon Detroit oh it's good to be in the house of Labor can we hear from [Applause] Tyrese Tyrese I want to thank you for your extraordinary leadership and all of your words and the heart and soul that you put into your work like I know all the members of Luna and everyone here does every day because we love our country and we know it is at stake thank you Ty thank you so it is so good to be with so many incredible leaders and elected officials who are here Governor Whitmer was here earlier senator staban now your next United States Senator representative Elisa [Applause] lockin and I always want to thank representatives dingles there where is she there she there she is Step stinar all of you for the work that you do every day and to all the labor leaders who are here I thank you all for your extraordinary work don't we love Labor Day we love Labor Day it's always been that way right the way we celebrate Labor Day is we know that hard work is good work we know that when we organize when we bring everyone together it's a joyful moment where we are committed to doing the hard work of lifting up America's families and I want to thank everyone here for that work and the way you do it every day including General president Booker of the [Applause] laborers president Fain of UAW president Pringle of Nea president seven of the utility workers and president Wine Garden of the AFT and thank you to all of the union members who are here this afternoon so on Labor Day and every day we celebrate the Dignity of work the Dignity of work we celebrate unions because unions helped build America and unions helped build America's middle class it is true across our nation and it is true here in Detroit nearly 140 years ago in this very City 10,000 people marched in one of our nation's first Labor Day parades many Health signs that read divided we can beg united we can demand for Generations in Detroit and across our nation the brothers and sisters of Labor have stood together to righteously demand Fair pay better benefits and safe working conditions and let me say every person in our nation has benefited from that [Applause] work everywhere I go I tell people look you may not be a union member you better thank a union member for the 5 day work week you better thank a union member for sick leave you better thank a union member for paid leave you better thank a union member for vacation time because what we know is when union wages go up everybody's wages go up when Union workplaces are safer every workplace is safer when unions are strong America is strong we know what we're talking about the labor movement has always understood the power of the collective and the power of unity the power of unity and while we are fighting so much nonsense that is about trying to divide our country trying to pull us apart look to what the history and the present of Labor tells us about the power of the collective and unity the spirit of that work as much as the product of that work is very telling and gives us really good lessons about what creates strength and you know many of you know my parents met while they were active in the Civil Rights Movement so when I was young my parents I see some young leaders here today when I was young my parents would take me to the meetings I see our young leaders and and and take me to the marches I was in a stroller and from a very young age I learned that when people stand together when we join voices knowing that the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us when we join those voices we can drive extraordinary change which is why I believe in my heart and soul no one should ever be made to fight alone we are all in this together we are all in this together [Applause] but I'll tell you I think that there has been a certain backward thinking approach over the last several years which is to suggest some folks them folks to suggest that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down instead of what we know the true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you LIF up who you lift up that's the measure of the strength of a leader let's stop with the nonsense and in this election we all here know there are two very different Visions for our nation ours focused on the future the other focused let's just get through the next 64 days h [Applause] on and ours yes my dear brother is focused on the future and theirs is focused on the past and we fight for the future we fight for a future where all people receive dignity and respect an opportunity for not just for some but for all that's what we are fighting for and so we are 64 days out from the election day and in Michigan mail and absentee voting starts in 24 days 24 [Applause] days so this election this election and our fight is a fight for the promise of America a promise I love you and ours is a fight for the promise the promise of America a promise of freedom of opportunity and Justice not just for some but for all but what we know is as we fight to move our nation forward Donald Trump intends to pull us back to the past but we're not going back we are not going back we're not going back not so andless and and and we know we know what that would look like right so intends to pull us back including back to a time before workers had the freedom to organize as president we will always remember Donald Trump blocked overtime benefits from millions of workers Tyrese talked a bit about this and opposed efforts to raise the minimum wage he appointed Union Busters to the National Labor Relations Board and he supported so-called right to work laws and well here's the thing here's the thing we have a choice here right and and we're not going back because we also know that if Donald Trump were reelected he intends to give tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations he intends to cut Social Security and Medicare he wants to impose what in effect is a national sales tax on everyday products and basic necess ities that will cost an economist have said this that will cost a typical American Family almost $4,000 a year he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act and take us back to a time in our country which most of us remember when insurance companies you remember had the power to deny people coverage based on a pre-existing condition remember that deny people children who had asthma a survivor of breast cancer a grandparent with diabetes look America has tried those failed policies before and they are failed policies and we are not going back we are not going back we are not going back and instead and instead we fight for a future a future where no person has to go broke just cuz they got sick and so when I am President we will continue to strengthen the Affordable Care Act we will bring down the cost of prescription drugs not only for some but for all [Applause] Americans we we fight for a future where every worker has the freedom to organize [Applause] and so when I am President we will pass the pro act and and union busting once and for all and I'll remind everybody on all these bills we got to elect the Congress who supports that to be able to actually get that work done we fight for a future where every person has the opportunity not just to get by but to get ahead and so when I am President we will continue to build what I call an opportunity economy so that every American has an opportunity to own a home to start a business to build intergenerational wealth for their family we fight for a future where every senior can retire with dignity and so when I am President we will continue to defend Social Security Medicare and pensions just like we have done [Applause] 64 days 64 days the most important election of our lives and probably one of the most important in the life of our nation and here's what I'd say to all the brothers and sisters assemble we know this is going to be a very tight race to the very end we know we know and I got your back but I'm telling you we know how they play we know what they do so let's not pay too much attention to the polls let's know like labor always does we are out here running like we are the underdog in this race because we know what we are fighting for we know what we stand for and that's why we know what we fight for [Applause] and we got some hard work ahead of us but again we all like hard work cuz hard work is good [Applause] work and to do that hard work I'm going to count on everyone here all the leaders here for your work for you're organizing knocking on doors and getting folks to the polls cuz put bluntly Michigan y'all know how to win you know how to win you know how to win so today I ask Detroit Michigan are you ready to have your voices heard do we believe in Freedom do we believe in Opportunity do we believe in the promise of America and are we ready to fight for it and when we fight we win God bless you good afternoon Detroit oh it's good to be in the house of Labor can we hear for [Applause] Tyrese tyres I want to thank you for your extraordinary leadership and all of your words and the heart and so that you put into your work like I know all the members of Luna and everyone here does every day because we love our country and we know it is at stake thank you tyr thank you so it is so good to be with so many incredible leaders and elected officials who are here Governor Whitmore was here earlier senator staban now your next United States Senator representative Elisa sloin and I always want to thank representatives dingles there where is she there she there she is Steven stinar all of you for the work that you do every day and to all the labor leaders who are here I thank you all for your extraordinary work don't we love Labor Day we love Labor Day it's always been that way right the way we celebrate Labor Day is we know that hard work is good work we know that when we organize when we bring everyone together it's a joyful moment where we are committed to doing the hard work of lifting up America's families and I want to thank everyone here for that work and the way you do it every day including General president Booker of the [Applause] laborers president of UAW president Pringle of Nea president seven of the utility workers and president wi Garden of the AFT and thank you to all of the union members who are here this afternoon so on Labor Day and every day we celebrate the Dignity of work the Dignity of work we celebrate unions because unions helped build America and unions helped build America's middle class it is true across our nation and it is true here in Detroit nearly 140 years ago In This Very City 10,000 people marched in one of our nation's first Labor Day [Music] parades many Health signs that read divided we can beg united we can demand for Generations in Detroit and across our nation the brothers and sisters of Labor have stood together to righteously demand Fair pay better benefits and safe working conditions and let me say every person in our nation has benefited from that [Applause] work everywhere I go I tell people look you may not be a union member you better than a union member for the 5 day work week you better thank a union member for sick leave you better thank a union member for paid leave you better thank a union member for vacation time because what we know is when union wages go up everybody's wages go up when Union workplaces are safe every workplace is safer when unions are strong America is strong we know what we're talking about the labor movement has always understood the power of the collective and the power of unity the power of unity and while we are fighting so much nonsense that is about trying to divide our country trying to pull us apart yes look to what the history and the present of Labor tells us about the power of the collective and unity the spirit of that work as much as the product of that work is very telling and gives us really good lessons about what creates and you know many of you know my parents met while they were active in the Civil Rights Movement so when I was young my parents I see some young leaders here today when I was young my parents would take me to the meetings I see our young leaders and and and take me to the marches I was in a stroller and from a very young age I learned that when people stand together when we join voices knowing that the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us when we join those voices we can drive extraordinary change which is why I believe in my heart and soul no one should ever be made to fight alone we are all in this together we all in this [Applause] together but I'll tell you I think that there has been a certain backward thinking approach over the last several years which is to suggest some folks them folks to suggest that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down instead of what we know the true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up who you lift up that's the measure of the strength of a leader let's stop with the nonsense and in this election we all here know there are two very different Visions for our nation ours focused on the future the other focused let's just get through the next 64 days h on and ours yes my dear brother is focused on the future and theirs is focused on the past and we fight for the future we fight for a future where all people receive dignity and respect and opportunity for not just for for some but for all that's what we are fighting for and so we are 64 days out from the election day and in Michigan mail and absentee voting starts in 24 days 24 [Applause] days so this election this election and our fight is a fight for the promise of America aise promise I love you that and ours is a fight for the promise the promise of America a promise of freedom of opportunity and Justice not just for some but for all but what we know is as we fight to move our nation forward Donald Trump intends to pull us back the past but we're not going back we are not going back we're not going so and let's and and and we know we know what that would look like right so intends to pull us back including back to a time before workers had the freedom to organ organized as President we will always remember Donald Trump blocked overtime benefits from millions of workers Tyrese talked a bit about this and opposed efforts to raise the minimum wage he appointed Union Busters to the National Labor Relations Board and he supported so-called right to work laws and if well here's the thing here's the thing we have a choice here right and and we're not going back because we also know that if Donald Trump were reelected he intends to give tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations he intends to cut Social Security and Medicare he wants to impose what in effect is a national sales tax on every everyday products and basic necessities that will cost an economist have said this that will cost a typical American Family almost $4,000 a year he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act and take us back to a time in our country which most of us remember when insurance companies you remember had the power to deny people coverage based on a pre-existing condition remember that I people children who had asthma a survivor of breast cancer a grandparent with diabetes look America has tried those failed policies before and they are failed policies and we are not going back we are not going back we are not going back and instead and instead we fight for a future a future where no person has to go broke just because they got sick and so when I am President we will continue to strengthen the Affordable Care Act we will bring down the cost of prescription drugs not only for some but for all [Applause] Americans we we fight for our future where every work has the freedom to [Applause] organize and so when I am President we will pass the pro act and end union busting once and for all and I'll remind everybody on all these bills we got to elect the Congress who supports that to be able to actually get that work done we fight for a future where every person has the opportunity not just to get by but to get ahead and so when I am President we will continue to build what I call an opportunity economy so that every American has an opportunity to own a home to start a business to build intergenerational for their family we fight for a future where every senior can retire with dignity and so when I am President we will continue to defend Social Security Medicare and pensions just like we have done [Applause] [Applause] 64 days 64 days the most important election of our lives and probably one of the most important in the life of our nation and here's what I'd say to all the brothers and sisters assemble we know this is going to be a very tight race to the very end we know we know and I got your back but I'm telling you we know how they play we know what they do so let's not pay too much attention to the polls let's know like labor always does we are out here running like we are the underdog in this race because we know what we are fighting for we know what we stand for and that's why we know what we fight for [Applause] and we got some hard work ahead of us but again we all like hard work cuz hard work is good [Applause] work and to do that hard work I'm going to count on everyone here all the leaders here for your work for your organizing knocking on doors and getting folks to the polls cuz put bluntly Michigan y'all know how to win you know how to win you know how to win so today I ask Detroit Michigan are you ready to have your voices heard do we believe in Freedom do we believe in Opportunity do we believe in the promise of America and are we ready to fight for for it and when we fight we win God bless you good afternoon Detroit oh it's good to be in the house of laor can we hear for [Applause] Tyrese tyres I want to thank you for your extraordinary leadership and all of your words and the heart and soul that you put into your work like I know all the members of Luna and everyone here does every day because we love our country and we know it is at stake thank you tyr thank you so it is so good to be with so many incredible leaders and elected officials who are here Governor Whitmer was here earlier senator staban now your next United States Senator representative Elisa slin and I always want to thank representatives dingles there where is she there she there she is stepen stinar all of you for the work that you do every day and to all the labor leaders who are here I thank you all for your extraordinary work don't we love Labor Day we love Labor Day it's always been that way right the way we celebrate Labor Day is we know that hard work is good work we know that when we organize when we bring everyone together it's a joyful moment where we are committed to doing the hard work of lifting up America's families and I want to thank everyone here for that work and the way you do it every day including General president Booker of the labors president Fain of UAW president Pringle of Nea president s of the utility workers and president wi Garden of the AFT and thank you to all of the union members who are here this afternoon so on Labor Day and every day we celebrate the Dignity of work the Dignity of work we celebrate unions because unions helped build America and unions help build America's middle class it is true across our nation and it is true here in Detroit nearly 14 40 years ago in this very City 10,000 people marched in one of our nation's first Labor Day [Music] parades many held signs that read divided we can beg united we can demand for Generations in Detroit and across our nation the brothers and sisters of labor have stood together to righteously demand Fair pay better benefits and safe working conditions and let me say every person in our nation has benefited from that [Applause] work everywhere I go I tell people look you may not be a union member you better thank a union member for the 5 day work week you better thank a union member for sick leave you better thank a union member for paid leave you better thank a union member for vacation time because what we know is when union wages go up everybody's wages go up when you workplaces are safer every workplace is safer when unions are strong America is strong we know what we're talking about the labor movement has always understood the power of the collective and the power of unity the power of unity and while we are fighting so much nonsense that is about trying to divide our country trying to pull us apart look to what the history and the present of Labor tells us about the power of the collective and unity the spirit of that work as much as the product of that work is very telling and gives us really good lessons about what creates strength and you know many of you know my parents met while they were active in the Civil Rights Movement so when I was young my parents I see some young leaders here today when I was young my parents would take me to the meetings I see our young leaders and and and take me to the March as I was in a stroller and from a very young age I learned that when people stand together when we join voices knowing that the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us when we join those voices we can drive extraordinary change which is why I believe in my heart and soul no one should ever be made to fight alone we are all in this together we are all in this [Applause] together but I'll tell you I think that there has been a certain backward thinking approach over the last several years which is to suggest some folks them folks to suggest that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down instead of what we know the true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up who you lift up that's the measure of the strength of a leader let's stop with the nonsense and in this election we all here know there are two very different Visions for our nation ours Focus focused on the future the other focused let's just get through the next 64 [Applause] days and ours yes my dear brother is focused on the future and theirs is focused on the past and we fight for the future we fight for a future where all people receive dignity and respect and opportunity for not just for some but for all that's what we are fighting for and so we are 64 days out from the election day and in Michigan mail and absentee voting starts in 24 days 24 [Applause] days so this election this election and our fight is a fight for the promise of America a promise I love you and ours is a fight for the promise the promise of America a promise of freedom of opportunity and Justice not just for some but for all but what we know is as we fight to move our nation forward Donald Trump intends to pull us back to the past but we're not going back we are not going back we're not going back we going we going we going so and let's and and and we know we know what that would look like right so intends to pull us back including back to a Time before workers had the freedom to organize as President we will always remember Donald Trump blocked overtime benefits from millions of workers Tyrese talked a bit about this and opposed efforts to raise the minimum wage he appointed Union Busters to the National Labor Relations Board and he supported so-called right to work laws and here's the thing here's the thing we have a choice here right and and we're not going back because we also know that if Donald Trump were reelected he intends to give tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations he intends to cut Social Security and Medicare he wants to impose what in effect is a national sales tax on everyday products and basic necessities that will cost an economist have said this that will cost a typical American Family almost $44,000 a year he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act and take us back to a time in our country which most of us remember when insurance companies you remember had the power to deny people coverage based on a pre-existing condition remember that deny people children who had asthma a survivor of breast cancer a grandparent would diabetes look America has tried those failed policies before and they are failed policies and we are not going back we are not going back we are not going back and instead and instead we fight for a future a future where no person has to go broke just cuz they got sick and so when I am President we will continue to strengthen the Affordable Care Act we will bring down the cost of prescription drugs not only for some but for all [Applause] Americans we we fight for for a future where every worker has the freedom to [Applause] organize and so when I am President we will pass the pro act and end union busting once and for all and I'll remind everybody on all these bills we got to elect the Congress who supports that to be able to actually get that work done we fight for a future where every person has the opportunity not just to get by but to get ahead and so when I am President we will continue to build what I call an opportunity economy so that every American has an opportunity to own a home to start a business to build intergenerational wealth for their fam we fight for a future where every Senor can retire with dignity and so when I am President we will continue to defend Social Security Medicare and pensions just like we have done [Applause] [Applause] 64 days 64 days the most important election of our lives and probably one of the most important in the life of our nation and here's what I'd say to all the brothers and sisters assembled we know this is going to be a very tight race to the very end we know we know I got your back but I'm telling you we know how they play we know what they do so let's not pay too much attention to the polls let's know like labor always does we are out here running like we are the underdog in this race because we know what we are fighting for we know what we stand for and that's why we know what we fight for [Applause] and we got some hard work ahead of us but again we all like hard work cuz hard work is good [Applause] work and to do that hard work I'm going to count on everyone here all the leaders here for your work for your organizing knocking on doors and getting folks to the polls cuz put bluntly Michigan y'all know how to win you know how to win you know how to win so today I ask Detroit Michigan are you ready to have your voices heard do we believe in Freedom do we believe in Opportunity do we believe in the promise of America and all are we ready to fight for it and when we fight we win God bless you good afternoon Detroit oh it's good to be in the house of Labor can we hear from [Applause] Tyrese tyes I want to thank you for your extraordinary leadership and all of your words and the heart and soul that you put into your work like I know all the members of Luna and everyone here does every day because we love our country and we know it is at stake thank you tyres thank you so it is so good to be with so many incredible leaders and elected officials who are here Governor Whitmer was here earlier senator staban now [Applause] your next United States Senator representative Elisa [Applause] sloin and I always want to thank representatives dingles there is she there she there she is stepen stinar all of you for the work that you do every day and to all the labor leaders who are here I thank you all for your extraordinary work don't we love Labor Day we love Labor Day it's always been that way right the way we celebrate Labor Day is we know that hard work is good work we know that when we organize when we bring everyone together it's a joyful moment where we are committed to doing the hard work of lifting up America's families and I want to thank everyone here for that work and the way you do it every day including General president Booker of the laborers president Fain of UAW president Pringle of Nea president s of the utility workers and president Wine Garden of the AFT and thank you to all of the union members who are are here this afternoon so on Labor Day and every day we celebrate the Dignity of work the Dignity of work we celebrate unions because unions helped build America and unions help build America's middle class it is true across our nation and it is true here in Detroit nearly 140 years ago in this very City 10,000 people marched in one of our nation's first Labor Day [Music] parades many heal signs that read divided we can beg united we can demand for Generations in Detroit and across our nation the brothers and sisters of Labor have stood together to righteously demand Fair pay better benefits and safe working conditions and let me say every person in our nation has benefited from that [Applause] work everywhere I go I tell people look you may not be a union member you better thank a union member for the 5 day work week you better thank a union member for sick leave you better thank a union member for paid leave you better thank a union member for vacation time because what we know is when union wages go up everybody's wages go up when Union workplaces are safer every workplace is safer when unions are strong America is strong we know what we're talking about the labor movement has always understood the power of the collective and the power power of unity the power of unity and while we are fighting so much nonsense that is about trying to divide our country trying to pull us apart look to what the history and the present of Labor tells us about the power of the collective and unity the spirit of that work as much as the product of that work is very telling and gives us really good lessons about what creates strength and you know many of you know my parents met while they were active in the Civil Rights Movement so when I was young my parents I see some young leaders here today when I was young my parents would take me to the meetings I see our young leaders and and and take me to the marches I was in a stroller and from a very young age I learned that when people stand to together when we join voices knowing that the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us when we join those voices we can drive extraordinary change which is why I believe in my heart and soul no one should ever be made to fight alone we are all in this together we are all in this [Applause] together but I'll tell you I think that there has been a certain backward thinking approach over the last several years which is to suggest some folks them folks to suggest that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down instead instead of what we know the true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up who you lift up that's the measure of the strength of a leader let's stop with the nonsense and in this election we all here know there are two very different Visions for our nation ours focused on the future the other focused let's just get through the next 64 days [Applause] H and ours yes my dear brother is focused on the future and theirs is focused on the past and we fight for the future we fight for a future where all people receive dignity and respect an opportunity for not just for some but for all that's what we are fighting for and so we are 64 days out from the election day and in Michigan mail and absentee voting starts in 24 days 24 [Applause] days so this election this election and our fight is a fight for the promise of America a promise I love you and ours is a fight for the promise the promise of America a promise of freedom of opportunity and Justice not just for some but for all but what we know is as we fight to move our nation forward Donald Trump intends to pull us back to the past but we're not going back we are not going back we're not going back we're not going back we're not going so unless and and and we know we know what that would look like right so intends to pull us back and including back to a time before workers had the freedom to organize as President we will always remember Donald Trump blocked overtime benefits from millions of workers Tyrese talked a bit about this and opposed efforts to raise the minimum wage he appointed Union Busters to the National Labor Relations Board and he supported so-called right to work Applause and well here's the thing here's the thing we have a choice here right and and we're not going back because we also know that if Donald Trump were reelected he intends to give tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations he intends to cut Social Security and Medicare he wants to impose what in effect is a national sales tax on everyday products and basic necessities that will cost an economist have said this that will cost a typical American Family almost $4,000 a year he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act and take us back to a time in our country which most of us remember when insurance companies you remember had the power to deny people coverage based on on a pre-existing condition remember that deny people the children who had asthma a survivor of breast cancer a grandparent with diabetes look America has tried those failed policies before and they are failed policies and we are not going back we are not going back we are not going back and instead and instead we fight for a future a future where no person has to go broke just cuz they got sick and so when I am President we will continue to strengthen the Affordable Care Act we will bring down the cost of prescription drugs not only for some but for all [Applause] Americans we we we fight for a future where every worker has the freedom to [Applause] organize and so when I am President we will pass the pro act and end union busting once and for all and I'll remind everybody on all these bills we got to elect the Congress who supports that to be able to actually get that work done we fight for a future where every person has the opportunity not just to get by but to get ahead and so when I am President we will continue to build what I call an opportunity economy so that every American has an opportunity to own a home to start a business to build intergenerational wealth for their family we fight for a future where every senior can retire with dignity and so when I am President we will continue to defend Social Security Medicare and pensions just like we have done [Applause] [Applause] 64 days 64 days the most important election of our lives and probably one of the most important in the life of our nation and here's what I'd say to all the brothers and sisters assembled we know this is going to be a very tight race to the very end we know we know and I got your back but I'm telling you we know how they play we know what they do so let's not pay too much attention to the polls let's know like labor always does we are out here running like we are the underdog in this race because we know what we are fighting for we know what we stand for and that's why we know what we fight for and we got some hard work ahead of us but again we all like hard work cuz hard work is good [Applause] work and to do that hard work I'm going to count on everyone here all the leaders here for your work for you're organizing knocking on doors and getting folks to the pole cuz put bluntly Michigan y'all know how to win you know how to win you know how to win so today I ask Detroit Michigan are you ready to have your voices heard do we believe in Freedom do we believe in Opportunity do we believe in the promise of a America and are we ready to fight for it and when we fight we win God bless you good afternoon Detroit oh it's good to be in the house of Labor can we hear from Tyres [Applause] tyes I want to thank you for your extraordinary leadership and all of your words and the heart and soul that you put into your work like I know all the members of Luna and everyone here does every day because we love our country and we know it is at stake thank you tyr thank you so it is so good to be with so many incredible leaders and elected officials who are here Governor Whitmore was here earlier senator staban now your next United States Senator representative Elisa slen and I always want to thank Representatives dingles where is she there she there she is stev stinar all of you for the work that you do every day and to all the labor leaders who are here I thank you all for your extraordin work don't we love Labor Day we love Labor Day it's always been that way right the way we celebrate Labor Day is we know that hard work is good work we know that when we organize when we bring everyone together it's a joyful moment where we are committed to doing the hard work of lifting up America's families and I want to thank everyone here for that work and the way you do it every day including General president pres Booker of the [Applause] labors president Fain of UAW president pringo of Nea president seven of the utility workers and president weine Garden of the AFT and thank you to all of the union members who are here this afternoon so on Labor Day and every day we celebrate the Dignity of work the Dignity of work we celebrate unions because unions helped build America and unions helped build America's middle class it is true across our nation and it is true here in Detroit nearly 140 years ago in this very City 10,000 people marched in one of our nation's first Labor Day [Music] parades many Health signs that read divided we can beg united we can demand for generation ations in Detroit and across our nation the brothers and sisters of Labor have stood together to righteously demand Fair pay better benefits and safe working conditions and let me say every person in our nation has benefited from that [Applause] work everywhere I go I tell people look you may not be a union member you better think Union member for the 5ay work week you better thank a union member for sick leave you better thank a union member for paid leave you better thank a union member for vacation time because what we know is when union wages go up everybody's wages go up when Union workplaces are safer every workplace is safer when unions are strong America is strong we know what we're talking about the labor movement has always understood the power of the collect Ive and the power of unity the power of unity and while we are fighting so much nonsense that is about trying to divide our country trying to pull us apart look to what the history and the present of Labor tells us about the power of the collective inunity the spirit of that work as much as the product of that work is very telling and gives us really good lessons about what creates strength and you know many of you know my parents met while they were active in the Civil Rights Movement so when I was young my parents I see some young leaders here today when I was young my parents would take me to the meetings I see our young leaders and and and take me to the marches I was in a stroller and from a very young age I learned that when people stand together when we join voices knowing that the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us when we join those voices we can drive extraordinary change which is why I believe in my heart and soul no one should ever be made to fight alone we are all in this together we are all in this [Applause] together but I'll tell you I think that there has been a certain backward thinking approach over the last several years which is to suggest some folks them folks to suggest that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down instead of what we know the true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up who you lift up that's the measure of the strength of a leader let's stop with the nonsense and in this election we all here know hello hello [Applause] hello hello [Applause] pittburg thank you thank Youk you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank Youk thank you [Applause] thank well I've celebrated many Labor Days in Pittsburgh and it's always good to be back with so many great friends many whom flew with me on Air Force One today represent the Union with me since the beginning of my career they not that old but they since I was a 29y old kid I want to thank Liz Schuler the F [Applause] CIO and Kenny at the ibw for that strong endorsement by the way we have an expression in Delaware ibw when I ran for president they're the ones that BR me to the dance starting off not a joke Dave mcco the steel workers yeah Dave in 1972 still workers of the First Union endorsed a 29-year-old kid named Joe Biden was no want to be Senator when he got elected it mattered guy named UI carcella was a district president because we used to have one of the largest labor forces in Claymont Delaware in North over 4,000 workers and it was anyway it all went law went South but yui yui went to the National president I iwel and he said he wanted me he wanted me to get endorsed everybody thought it was crazy I literally wasn't old enough to be sworn in to day I got elected but guess what president able stuck with me [Applause] and they got stuck with me for the rest of their my career Eric Dean and the iron workers Tim disco the brick players April B the SEIU Lee Saunders rman and a great friend and Jimmy Williams the painters Allied trades and his dad his dad is a really good man Mike Coleman a sheet metal worker we also got some of the best elected FIS of America Governor Josh shapir is doing an incredible job the great lieutenant governor Austin Davis and one of America's best words Ed gy Ed you're doing a hell of a job Sarah Nido County Executive I think it's the hardest job in American politics everybody knows where you live and they think you can solve all the problems you don't have enough money but I tell you one thing I'm the first president ever I used to be a county official when I was 26 years old and always bothered me that count the state the federal government would send money to the state to be distributed to the county what the hell the state going to send the county for all the state reps need the money right but guess what under my Administration it goes straight to this County one of my best friends my name is Joe Biden I'm from Scranton [Applause] Pennsylvania Bobby cas's been a great friend his dad was a great friend as well and by the way we grew up three blocks from one another three blocks and uh they still worry about us by showing up guess what I was on North Washington Avenue he was an Adams guess what they've renamed North Washington Avenue down where I live Biden way worth the effort Bobby B will make sure we that you get reelected again and while we couldn't be here I want to thank his partner in the Senate John fedman but if you're in a foxhole you want Federman in there with you he couldn't be here today but guess what he sent the best part of the family Jazelle she's [Applause] here let me just say it means so much to be with a true friend a true friend the vice president and the next great president of the United States of America come look folks I come from two neighborhoods where it's not hard to say the word Union but you know what fact of the matter is an awful lot of politicians have a trouble saying Union like working people that's guess what I'm not one of them neither is comma we know the Simple Truth Wall Street did not build America the middle class Built America and unions built the middle class that's a [Applause] fact by the [Applause] way that is not a slogan that's a fact I asked the treasury Department to do a study and it shows that when unions do well all workers in America do better that's a fact that's a [Applause] fact it's the biggest reason why our economy is the strongest economy in the world today without question because of unions you [Applause] know my dad like many of his generation going into World War II wasn't able to go to go to college my dad was a really well- read guy and he was always engaged and he come home from work before he'd go back and close up the shop and uh for dinner and the dinner is a place where we had discussions and incidentally eight you know my dad taught me my dad would say this all the time remember Joey a job and I give you my word to this a job is about a lot more than a paycheck it's about your dignity it's about the community it's about your place in the community and it's about being able to look your kidney eye and say honey it's going to to be okay and mean it well that's why that's why K are so proud so proud of the greatest job creation record of any president in a single term in American history 16 million new jobs so far [Applause] 800,000 manufacturing jobs eight years ago how many times you hear about we can no longer be the manufacturing Capital world where the hell is that written we are the greatest manufacturing city county in the world state in the world city in the world I'm going to remain that way I'll tell you something Comm I are damn proud that we Ed the pensions of over 1 million workers retirees remember all those years the promise we're going to do something about it well damn it we finally did with the but Lewis act over 52,000 workers and retirees across penssylvania loone or benefit from that not only did we store the full amount we got them back pay as [Applause] well we made them whole [Applause] again as anyone said to Brock that's a big deal yeah that's a long story yes heard lizen Kenny describe another big deal union workers rebuilding American infrastructure and building new factories here in America they told me we couldn't get any thing done done in infrastructure a trillion $200 billion we got done remember Trump for four years promised every month infrastructure week for four years he promis that he didn't build a damn thing nothing I mean not nothing well thanks to our infrastructure Law Pennsylvania so far has received $17 billion $17 [Applause] billion over 2,000 projects from clean water to affordable highspeed internet for every Pennsylvanian thank you the projects that include $858 million to expand the Montgomery lock better accommodate bigger barges to get millions of tons of good and Sh shelves faster more reliable and create thousands of union jobs I was working on the great lakes and I got a call from Bob from Senator Casey he's been no bigger Champion than Casey for this you know what I call him I call him the Casey locks my Goldilocks the Casey locks Bobby's also a champion of Pennsylvania's energy community communities we passed what's called Casey credit available of 45 Pennsylvania counties where energy jobs such as Co work coal mining and been before disappeared before we came to office the Casey credit provides major incentives for company to build new battery factories wind turbines and more to create high paying jobs in those coal and natural gas communities and on top of that there's over $4 billion in private companies committed to investing clean energy Advanced manufacturing here in Pennsylvania $4 billion and guess what with your support I signed an executive order to make sure large Federal construction projects all use project labor agreements [Applause] Folks at home who maybe watch this and tell them you know what a project labor agreement is is When contractors subcontractors and unions put in place before construction begins what the rules are before it begins these agreements make sure construction is topnotch on time on task and by the way on budget there's another big deal by American that's been the law since 1930 I got to admit I've been around I'm only 40 but I've been around a long time but I quite frankly until 10 years ago wasn't aware you know back in the 30s when they're trying to make sure unions could organize and business couldn't interfere the a law was passed it said every penny the president gets from the Senate the house and Congress to spend on a project he should an American worker and use an American product but past administration right C past administration including my press predecessor failed to buy America they ship jobs overseas where labor was cheaper and brought home the product that was more expensive but not anymore Federal projects build American roads Bridges highways and to be made with American products by American workers that's why that's why we're creating all these I'm serious it's simple and basic that's why we're creating so many good paying jobs in fact we're requiring those kinds of projects to pay Davis bacing prevailing wages so their jobs that can raise a family arm many of those jobs don't require college degree in fact we expanded registered apprenticeships remember all the hell I got for doing that we got for doing that well guess what resulted in hiring over 1 million apprentices since we came to office and lots of folks don't realize getting an apprenticeship is like getting a college degree why you have to train for four or five years to get that and some of the best workers in the world arise we where we are we are you know when you're in Pittsburgh you're standing with steel workers let's be clear I believe in American steel companies American owned and operated steel companies a simple reason it's not hyperbole America the best Ste workers in the world and I made it clear last time I was in BG United States Steel an iconic American company for more than a century is going to remain an American company remember as a young Senator why the National Labor Relations Board was sometimes so anti- labor it was set up to help labor to be Pro labor well guess what that's why one of the most significant things we've done Comm and I is appointing a National Labor Reserve board Relations Board that actually believes in unions and believes in recogniz big deal it's a big deal remember we have short memories I'm all for forgiveness I'm not for this Trump appointed Union Busters on that board no it's a fact but it's real it affects people's lives we going to let that son of a gun do that [Music] again folks made a lot of progress and K and I are going to build on that progress and she's going to build on it I'll be on the sidelines but I'll do everything I can to help but look I'm not joking what I say this is not a joke when I said this when I was going in 2020 a lot of people didn't believe me you did but not didn't believe me it's all at risk because of Donald Trump literally with a stroke of the pen get rid of a lot of this and do you think this guy gives a damn about your pensions no no I'm serious do you think he Lo loses even an instant of sleep over it do you think he cares about all the work you do every day and how hard it is you think he cares about good paying jobs for hardworking people who built this economy hell he regards picket lines he'd rather cross one than walk one but I have no problem walking the pricker line never have me nordis comma we'll always walkside alongside you union workers built this country and again that's not hyperbole that's a fact these are these are facts these not campaign slogans let me close this 5 years ago I began my campaign for President right here in Pittsburgh I said one of the reasons I was running was to rebuild the backbone and spine of America the middle class and working class folks not a joke think about it think about it well five years later we've done just that I'm back back in Pittsburgh on Labor Day again with a simple message as we look at this election I spelled my SP my whole career believing in unions I'm not joking when I say that I'm honored to be considered the most pro-union president ever y by the way remember all the talk Biden got elected he's going to do a planned economy we're going to collapse and there going to be all this caving in and interest rates are going to go through the ceiling come on man I'm here to tell you it's about increasing the strength of your union what this all about if you care about hardworking people just give them a fair shot everyone in America deserves a fair shot no guar a fair [Applause] shot if you care about the Dignity of work you care about the Dignity of work and I mean it matters the Dignity of work the way you're treated the decency yes I remember when my great-grandfather was one of the only the second Catholic elected Statewide to the state senate here in Pennsylvania and I remember they talked about when he when they're running against him in 1906 they said guess what they said he's a Molly Maguire you know what amly Maguire was well those of you who don't am mly McGuire back in the in the old days when we Irish and the Catholic came and then the poles and others that were catholic when they came to the United States of America in the beginning the 1840s and late 1840s they made their way down in the Pennsylvania a lot them and there there's a tear in this in the coal mines those guys who got their last ended up being the last people in the coal mines but a lot of the English own the coal mines and what they did was they'd really beat the hell out of the the mostly Catholic population that was in the mines not not a joke not a joke but there was a group that called the Mal magui and the M magui if they' find out the foreman who was taking advantage of an individual and theyd literally kill him not a joke and they bring him body up and put him on the doorstep of his family kind of crude but I got to admit they accused my great-grandfather being a mod he wasn't but we were so damn disappointed no that's a joke that's a joke it's about the Dignity of work it's about how you're treated and when I met with the ibw when I started off this last campaign first I said there's two things that asking of me and I said two things I'm asking of you one you got to open up your unions to more women not of show and two to more minorities you've done both that and guess what instead of having supported 30% of the American leaders now we're 65% of American support the American union movement it really is all about the Dignity of work then there's only if you care about the Dignity of work there's only one person you have a rational choice with this time that's KL Harris [Applause] not let me tell you about [Applause] this I know her I trust her not a joke I trust her number two the first decision I made to nominee his nominee in 2020 was selecting her as my vice president that's right by the way it was the single best decision I made as president United States of America I was watching something sent to me when they asked Barack they said Barack picked me as vice president because he knew I could be president I know she'll be a good president I know I watch it when all the experts foreign and domestic policy would give us advice then we sit alone in a room and she has a backbone like a ram rod she has the moral compass of a saint this woman knows what she's doing folks I promise you if you elect k say president will be the best is in you will have ever made reasons I do the unions are the spine of this economy she'll be historic pro-union president yeah so folks we got one more job to do together let me ask you are you ready to fight are you ready to win are you ready to let KL Harris our next president United States of America and in the process are you ready to make Donald Trump on loser again I've never been more optimistic about Americans we have to remember who we are we're the United States of America there's nothing nothing I mean this from the bottom of my heart there's nothing beyond our capacity nothing when we do it together and that means elect my friend our great vice president of pres United States Kam Harris you you you good afternoon Pittsburgh thank you [Applause] Joe than you thank you thank you you than Youk you you [Applause] you it is good to be in the house of Labor and it is good to be back at ibw Local 5 and can we please give it up again for our President Joe Biden yeah now I don't have to tell the brothers and sisters of Labor that you really get to know somebody when you're in the middle of a fight that's right when times are hard when the forces are Mighty when people don't believe something can get done and they have a thousand excuses for why it can't get done and I have spent more more time with this extraordinary human being when the cameras were not in the room when the stakes were High when the heat was intense and Joe Biden has always stood with the workers of America and labor unions of America always always I've been with him when he'll bring folks into the noal office and you know how Joe can get sometimes he doesn't spare words it's good that sometimes the cameras are not in the room when he has those conversations because the thing about the Joe Biden I know and I know you know because he has been a friend friend of labor for so long for his whole life Joe Biden can be quite impatient and that's a good thing for that kind of leader quite imp and I say to all of the friends here the Press that's in the room history will show what we here know Joe Biden has been one of the most transformative presidents in the United States that we have ever wited and it comes from his heart [Applause] love you and you know Joe and I talk a lot about the fact that we are so proud to be the most Pro Union Administration in America's history thank and as We Know Joe still got a lot of work to do so let's let's also understand that um so I want to thank all the incredible leaders who are here today um including the governor Shapiro lieutenant governor Davis Senator Casey who we will reelect this November mayor gaining president Schuler president Cooper all the leaders of Labor who are here all the union members who are here so I'll just get right to a few points I love Labor Day I love celebrating Labor Day and Pittsburgh of course is a cradle of the American labor movement it is the birthplace of the AFL headquarters of the steel workers home to Firefighters local one and of course the historic ibw local CL for more than 150 years the brothers and sisters of Labor have helped lead the fight for fair pay better benefits and safe working conditions and every person in our nation has benefited from that work you know everywhere I go I tell people you may not be a union member but you better thank unions for that five-day work week thank unions for sick leave thank unions for pay family leave thank unions for your vacation time because when union wages go up everybody's wages go up when Union workplaces are safer all workplaces are safer when unions are strong America is strong and we are clear not only has Pittsburgh shaped the history of America labor movement today you are also shaping its future in 2021 with my dear friend the secretary Marty Walsh who the president appointed to be Secretary of Labor he and I hosted a meeting right here in this local and it was part of the White House labor task force that I lead that day we met with a group of computer programmers who were working to form a union one month later they signed their contract and became the first one of the first technology unions in our nation standing on the shoulder of all those who have been here and fought the good fight so Pittsburgh I I remind us of that to say together we are fighting to build an economy that works for all working people that's right and that has always been the vision of the labor movement and that is the vision of our campaign you know in this election there are two very different Visions for our nation sure one ours focused on the future the other focused on the past we fight for the future we fight for a future of dignity respect and opportunity for all people we fight knowing it's some backward thinking for those folks who have been suggesting for years that the the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down you know that's the stuff they're pushing right that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down when we know the true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up who you lift up do you fight for workers do you fight for families do you fight for those who must be seen and heard and deserve the dignity that comes with hard work that's what we fight for and when you know what you stand for you know what to fight for so we're 64 days off from this election ballots in Pennsylvania will start dropping in 14 days 14 days and this election is as much as anything else a fight for the promise of America for the promise of America we love our country we love our country and we know it is one of the highest forms of patriotism to fight for the ideals of our country and that's what this election is about and about the promise of America and I don't need to tell unions what the promise looks like it's what you do every day but as we fight to move forward Donald Trump is trying to pull us backward including back to a time before workers had the freedom to organize he's going to jail well the courts will handle that and we will handle November how about that we'll handle November let the courts handle that another thing but we're not going back we're not going we're not going back not going back not going back not going back and one of the ways one of the ways we're going to guarantee we don't go back is that we remember right it is important to remember what that was and what it is remember as president Donald Trump blocked overtime benefits for millions of [Applause] workers he opposed efforts to raise the minimum wage as the president said he appointed Union Busters to the National Labor Relations Board and don't forget he supported so-called right to work laws and if Donald Trump were to be reelected he intends to give more tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations he intends to cut Social Security and Medicare he wants to impose what in effect would be a national sales taag I call it the Trump National sales tag on everyday products and basic necessities that would cost a typical American Family the economists have said this almost $4,000 a [Music] year he intends to repeal the Affordable Care Act and take us back to what we remember cuz it wasn't that long ago was a time when insurance companies could deny people with pre-existing conditions you remember what that was children with asthma breast cancer survivors grandparents with diabetes Well look America has tried those failed policies before and we are not going back we are not going back we're not going back we're not going back not going back we're not going back we're not going back and instead and instead we fight for a future where no person has to go broke just cuz they get sick and so building on the work of President Joe Biden and I and the work we have done in the white house we will continue to strengthen the Affordable Care Act and make prescription drugs affordable for all Americans we we we fight for for a future where every worker has the freedom to organize and we will pass the pro act and end union busting once and for all and Bob Casey will help us do [Applause] that we we see and know and fight for a future where every person has the opportunity not just to get by but to get ahead and so we will continue to build what I call an opportunity economy that's right so that every American has an opportunity to buy a home or start a business or build intergenerational wealth and have a future that matches their dreams and Ambitions and aspirations cuz of course that's the nature of who we are as Americans we have dreams we can see what is possible unburdened by what has been we have aspirations we have Ambitions and the system that is a good system is one that supports that and allows people the opportunity to go where they can see and imagine themselves to be that's what I'm talking about when I talk about an opportunity economy we fight for a future where every senior can retire with dignity and so we will continue to defend Social Security and Medicare and pensions and pensions and pensions and we will continue to strengthen America's manufacturing sector and on that point the president mentioned it us steel is historic American company and it is vital for our nation to maintain strong American steel companies and I couldn't agree more with President Biden us steel should remain American owned and American operated and I will always have the back of America's steel workers and all of America's workers so friends 64 days until the most election of our lives and probably one of the most important in the life of our nation truly it and we know this is going to be a tight race to the very end yes it's going to be a tight race to the very end so let's not pay too much attention to those polls because as unions and labor knows best we know what it's like to be the underdog and we are the underdog in this race and we have some hard work then ahead of us but here's the beauty of us in this room we like hard work hard work is good work hard work is joyful [Applause] work and so in this fight I will continue to count on the thank the determination and the hard work of the leaders in this room to knock on doors to get folks to the polls and bluntly put cuz the people in here do it to help us win Pennsylvania that's [Applause] right so today I ask are you ready to make your voices heard do we believe in Freedom do we believe in Opportunity do we believe in the Pro of America and are we ready to fight for it and when we fight we win God bless you God Bless [Applause] America thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you [Applause] thank well I've celebrated many Labor Days in Pittsburgh and it's always good to be back with so many great friends many whom flew with me on Air Force One today represent the union has been with me since the beginning of my career they not that old but they since I was a 29y old kid I want to thank Liz Schuler the AFL [Applause] CIO and Kenny of the ibw for that strong endorsement by the way we have an expression in Delaware ibw when I ran for president they're the ones that BR me to the dance starting off not a joke and Dave mle Steel Workers yeah Dave in 1972 still workers of the First Union endorsed a 29y old kid named Joe Biden wasn't no want to be Senator when he got elected it mattered guy named UI carcella was the district president because we used to have one of the largest labor forces in Claymont Delaware and North over 4,000 workers and it was anyway it all went law went South but yui yui went to the National president I iwa and he said he wanted me he wanted me to get endorsed everybody thought it was crazy I literally wasn't old enough to be sworn in the day I got elected but guess what president able stuck with me that's right [Applause] they got stuck with me for the rest of their my career Eric Dean the iron workers Tim disco of Bricker April the SEIU Le Saunders rman and a great friend and Jimmy Williams the painters Allied trades and his dad his dad is a really good man Mike Coleman the sheet metal work work we also got some of the best elected officials in America Governor Josh shapir is doing an incredible job the great lieutenant governor Austin Davis and one of America's best words Ed gainy Ed you're doing a hell of a job s nadoo County Executive I think is the hardest job in America politics everybody knows where you live and they think you can solve all the problems you don't have enough money but I tell you one thing I'm the first president ever I used to be a county official when I was 26 years old and always bothered me the count the state the federal government would send money to the state to be distributed to the county what the hell the state going to send it the county for all the state reps need the money right but guess what under my Administration it goes straight to this County one of my best friends my name is Joe B I'm from Scranton [Applause] Pennsylvania Bobby Cas has been a great friend his dad was a great friend as well and by the way we grew up three blocks from one another three blocks and uh they still worry about it's by showing up guess what I was on North Washington Avenue he was an Adam guess what theyve renamed North Washington Avenue down where I live Biden way the effort Bobby B will make sure we get you get reelected again and while we couldn't be here I want to thank his partner in the Senate John fedman if you're in a foxhole you want Federman in there with you he couldn't be here today but guess what he sent the best part of the family Jazelle she's [Applause] here let me just say it means so much to be with a true friend a true friend the vice president and the next great president of the United States of America come on look folks I come from two neighborhoods where it's not hard to say the word Union but you know what fact of the matter is an awful lot of politicians have a trouble saying Union like up working people that's guess what I'm not one of them neither as comma we know the simple truth Wall Street did not build America the middle class build America and unions built the middle class that's a [Applause] fact by the [Applause] way that is not a slogan that's a fact I asked the treasury Department to do a study and it shows that when unions do well all workers in America do better that's a fact that's a fact [Applause] it's the biggest reason why our economy is the strongest economy in the world today without question because of unions you [Applause] know my dad like many of his generation going into World War II wasn't able to go to go to college my dad was a really well- read guy and he was always engaged and he come home from work before he'd go back back close up the shop and uh for dinner and the dinner is a place where we had discussions and incidentally eight you know my dad taught me my dad would say this all the time remember Joey a job and I give you my word of this a job is about a lot more than a paycheck it's about your dignity it's about the community it's about your place in the community and it's about being able to Li your kidney eye and say honey it's going to be okay and mean it well that's why that's why Kai are so proud so proud of the greatest job creation record of any president in a single term in American [Applause] history 16 million new jobs so far 800 ,000 manufacturing jobs eight years ago how many times you hear about we can no longer be the manufacturing Capital world where the hell is that written we are the greatest manufacturing city county in the world state in the world C in the world we going to remain that way I'll tell you something Comm are damn proud that we predicted the pensions of over 1 million workers Ty remember all those years a promise we're going to do something about it well damn it we finally did with the Butch Lewis act over 52,000 workers and retirees across Pennsylvania alone are benefiting from that not only did we store the full amount we got them their back pay as well we made them whole again as everyone said to Brock that's a big deal yeah that's a long story yes heard lizen Kenny describe another big deal union workers rebuilding American infrastructure and building new factories here in America they told me we couldn't get any extend thing done in infrastructure a trillion $200 billion we got done remember Trump for 4 years promised every month infrastructure week for four years he promised that he didn't build a damn thing nothing I mean not nothing thanks to our infrastructure Law Pennsylvania so far has received 17 billion $17 [Applause] billion over 2,000 projects from clean water to affordable highspeed internet for every Pennsylvanian thank you the projects that include $858 million to expand the Montgomery lock better accommodate bigger barges to get millions of tons of goods and Sh shelves faster more B you create thousands of union jobs I was working on the great lakes and I got a call from Bobby from Senator Casey he's been no bigger Champion than Casey for this you know what I call them I call them the Casey locks not Goldilocks the Casey locks Bobby's also a champion of Pennsylvania's energy communities we passed what's called Casey credit available of 45 Pennsylvania counties where energy jobs such as coal where coal mining and have been before disappeared before we came to office the casy credit provides major incentives for companies to build new battery factories wind turbines and more to create high paying jobs in those coal and natural gas communities and on top of that there's over $4 billion and private companies have committed to investing clean energy Advanced Manufacturing here in Pennsylvania [Applause] billion and guess what we your support I signed an executive order to make sure large Federal construction projects all use project labor agreements [Applause] for folks at home who may be watching this and tell them know what a project labor agreement is is When contractors subcontractors and unions put in place before construction begins what the rules are before it begins these agreements make sure construction is topnotch on time on task and by the way on [Applause] budget there's another big deal Buy American that's been the law since 1930 I got to admit I've been around I'm only 40 but I've been around a long time but I quite frankly until 10 years ago wasn't aware you know back in the 30s when they're trying to make sure unions could organize and business couldn't interfere the law was passed that said every penny the president gets from the Senate the house in Congress to spend on a project he should hire an American worker and use an American product but past administration right C past administration including my pre predecessor failed to buy America they shipped jobs overseas where labor was cheaper and brought home the product it was more expensive but not anymore Federal projects build American roads Bridges highways and to be made with American products by American workers that's why that's why we're creating all these I'm serious it's simple and basic that's why we're creating so many good paying jobs in fact we're requiring those kinds of projects to pay Davis Baker prevailing wages so their jobs that can raise a family on many of those jobs don't require college degree in fact we expanded registered apprenticeships remember all the hell I got for doing that we got for doing that well guess what resulted in hiring over 1 million apprentices since we came to office and lots of folks don't realize getting an apprenticeship is like getting a college degree why you have to train for four or five years to get that and some of the best workers in the world arise we where we are where we are you know when you're in Pittsburgh you're standing with steel workers let's be clear I believe in American steel companies American owned and operated steel companies a simple reason it's not hyperbole America still workers of the best steel workers in the world and I made it clear last time I was in Pittsburgh United States Steel an iconic American company for more than a century is going to remain an American company remember as a young Senator why the National Labor Relations Board was sometimes so anti- labor it was set up to help labor to be Pro labor well guess what that's why one of the most significant things we've done Comm and I is appointing a National Labor Reserve board Relations Board that actually believes in unions and believes in recogniz a big deal it's a big deal remember we have short memories I'm all for forgiveness I'm not for this Trump appointed Union Busters on that board no it's a fact but it's real it affects people's lives we going to let that son of a gun do that [Music] again folks made a lot of progress in K I are going to build on that progress and she's going to build on it I'll be on the sidelines but I'll do everything I can to help but look I'm not joking what I say this is not a joke when I said this when I was going in 2020 a lot of people didn't believe me you did but didn't not didn't believe me it's all at risk because of Donald Trump literally stroke of the peny and get rid of a lot of this and do you think this guy gives a damn about your pensions no no I'm serious do you think he Lo loses even an instant of sleep over it you think he cares about all the work you do every day and how hard it is you think he cares about good paying jobs for hardworking people who built this economy hell he regards picket lines he'd rather cross one than walk one yeah yeah well I have no problem walking the pricket line never have nether nor do comma always always walkside alongside you union workers built this country and again that's not hyperbole that's a fact these are these are facts these not campaign slogans let me close this 5 years ago I began my campaign for President right here in Pittsburgh I said one of the reasons I was running was to rebuild the backbone and spine of America the middle class and working class folks not a joke think about it think about it well five years later we've done just that I'm back in Pittsburgh on Labor Day again with a message as you look at this election I spelled my SP my whole career believing in unions I'm not joking when I say that I'm honored to be considered the most pro-union president ever y by the way remember all the talk Biden got elected and he's going to do a planned economy we're going to collapse and there going to be all this caving in interest rates are going to go through the ceiling come on man I'm here to tell you it's about increasing the strength of your unions what is all about if you care about hard working people just give them a fair shot everyone in America deserves a fair shot no guar a fair [Applause] shot if you care about the Dignity of work you care about the Dignity of work and I mean it matters the Dignity of work the way you're treated the decency I remember when my great-grandfather was one of the only the second Catholic elected Statewide to the state senate here in Pennsylvania and I remember they talked about when he when they're running against him in 1906 they said guess what they said he's a Molly Maguire you know what a mly Maguire was well those of you who don't M back in the in the old days when we Irish and Catholics came and then the polles and others that were catholic when they came to the United States of America in the beginning in the 1840s and late 1840s they made their way down in the Pennsylvania a lot of them and there there's a tear in this in the coal mines those guys who got their last ended up being the last people in the coal mines but a lot of the English own the coal mines and what they did was they'd really beat the hell out of the the mostly Catholic population that was in the mines not not a joke not a joke but there was a group that called the Mal magui and the Mala magui if they find find out the foreman who was taking advantage of an individual and they literally kill him not a joke and they bring him body up and put him on the doorstep of his family kind of crude but I got to admit they accused my great-grandfather being a m he wasn't but we were so damn disappointed you know that's a joke that's a joke look it's a about the Dignity of work it's about how you're treated and when I met with the ibw I started off this last campaign first I said there's two things that asking of me and I said two things I'm asking of you one you got to open up your unions to more women not a show and [Applause] two the more minorities you've done both that and guess what instead of having supported 30% of American leaders now we 65% of the American support the American union movement it really is all about the Dignity of work then there's only if you care about the Dignity of work there's only one person you have a rational Choice with this time that's common hire [Applause] let me tell you about [Applause] this I know her I trust her not a joke I trust her number two the first decision I made the nominee his nominee in 2020 was selecting her as my vice president that's by the way it was the single best decision I made as president of the United States of America I was watching something sent to me when they asked barck they said Barack picked me as vice president because he knew I could be president I know she'll be good know I've watched it when all the experts foreign and domestic policy would give us advice then we sit alone in a room and she has a backbone like a ramrod she has the moral compass of a saint this woman knows what she's doing folks I promise you if you elect KL hus as president will be the best is in you will have ever made yeah pleas as I do the unions are the spine of this economy she'll be historic pro-union president yeah so folks we got one more job to do together let me ask you are you ready to fight are you ready to win are you ready to elect KL Harris our next president of United States of America and in the process are you ready to make Donald Trump a loser again I've never been more optimistic about America we have to remember who we are we're the United States of America there's nothing nothing I mean this from the bottom of my heart there's nothing beyond our capacity nothing when we do it together and that means elect my friend our great vice president of pres United States kamla Harris good afternoon Pittsburgh thank you [Applause] Joe thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you you you [Applause] you it is good to be in the house of Labor and it is good to be back at ibw Local 5 and can we please give it up again for our President Joe Biden now I don't have to tell the brothers and sisters of Labor that you really get to know somebody when you're in the middle of a fight that's right when times are hard when the forces are Mighty when people don't believe something can get done and they have a thousand excuses for why it can't get done and I have spent more time with this extraordinary human being when the cameras were not in the room when the stakes were High when the heat was intense and Joe Biden has always stood with the workers of America and labor unions of America always always I've been with him when he'll bring folks into the Oval Office and you know how can get sometimes he doesn't spare words it's good that sometimes the cameras are not in the room when he has those conversations because the thing about that Joe Biden I know and I know you know because he has been a friend friend of labor for so long for his whole life Joe Biden can be quite impatient and that's a good thing for that kind of leader quite impatient and I say to all of the friends here the Press that's in the room history will show what we here know Joe Biden has been one of the most transformative presidents in the United States that we have ever witness and it comes from his heart [Applause] love and you know Joe and I talk a lot about the fact that we are so proud to be the most Pro Union Administration in America's history [Applause] thank and as We Know Joe still got a lot of work to do so let's let's also understand that um so I want to thank all the incredible leaders who are here today um including the governor Shapiro Lieutenant govern Davis Senator Casey who we will reelect this November mayor gaining president Schuler president Cooper all the leaders of Labor who are here all the union members who are here so I'll just get right to a few points I love Labor Day I love celebrating Labor Day and Pittsburgh of course is a cradle of the American labor movement it is the birthplace of the AF fell headquarters of the steel workers home to Firefighters local one and of course the historic ibw local five more than 150 years the brothers and sisters of Labor have helped lead the fight for fair pay better benefits and safe working conditions and every person in our nation has benefited from that work you know everywhere I go I tell people you may not be a union member but you better thank unions for that 5day work week thank unions for sickly thank unions for pay family leave thank unions for your vacation time because when union wages go up everybody's wages go when Union workplaces are safer all workplaces are safer when unions are strong America is strong and we are clear not only has Pittsburgh shaped the history of America's labor movement today you are also shaping its future in 2021 with my dear friend the secretary Marty Walsh who the president appointed to be Secretary of Labor he and I hosted a meeting right here in this local and it was part of the White House labor task force that I lead that day we met with a group of computer programmers who were working to form a union one month later they signed their contract and became the first one of the first technology unions in our nation standing on the shoulder of all those who have been here and fought the good fight so Pittsburgh I I remind us of that to say together we are fighting to build an economy that works for all working people that's right and that has always been the vision of the labor movement and that is the vision of our campaign you know this election there are two very different Visions for our nation sure right one ours focused on the future the other focused on the past we fight for the future we fight for a future of dignity respect and opportunity for all people we fight knowing it's some backward thinking for those folks who have been suggesting for years that the the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down you know that's the stuff they're pushing that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down when we know the true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up who you lift up do you fight for workers do you fight for families do you fight for those who must be seen and heard and deserve the dignity that comes with hard work that's what we fight for and when you know what you stand for you know what to fight for so we're 64 days out from this election ballots in Pennsylvania will start dropping in 14 days 14 days and this election is as much as anything else a fight for the promise of America for the promise of America we love our country we love our country and we know it is one of the highest forms of patriotism to fight for the ideals of our country and that's what this election is about and about the promise of America and I don't need to tell unions what the promise looks like it's what you do every [Applause] day but as we fight to move forward Donald Trump is trying to pull us backward including back to a time before workers had the freedom to organize he's going to jail well the courts will handle that and we will handle November how about that we'll handle November let the courts handle that another thing but we're not going back going back we're not going back we're not going back we not going back we not going back and back and one of the ways one of the ways we're going to guarantee we don't go back is that we remember right it is important to remember what that was and what it is remember as president Donald Trump blocked overtime benefits for millions of [Applause] workers he opposed efforts to raise the minimum wage as the president said he appointed Union Busters to the National Labor Relations Board and don't forget he supported so-called right to work laws and if Donald Trump were to be reelected he intends to give more tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations he intends to cut Social Security and Medicare he wants to impose what in effect would be a national sales tax I call it the Trump National sales tax on everyday products and basic necessities that would cost a typical American Family The Economist have said this almost $4,000 a [Music] year he intends to repeal the Affordable Care Act and take us back to what we remember cuz it wasn't that long ago was a time when insurance companies could deny people with pre-existing conditions you remember what that was children with asthma breast cancer survivors grandparents with diabetes Well look America has tried those failed policies before and we are not going back we are not going back going back not going not going back we're not going back we're not going back and instead going back and in said we fight for a future where no person has to go broke just cuz they get sick and so building on the work of President Joe Biden and I and the work we have done in the white house we will continue to strengthen the Affordable Care Act and make prescription drugs affordable for all Americans we we we fight for a future where every worker has the freedom to organize and we will pass the pro act and end union busting once and for all and Bob Casey will help us do [Applause] that we we see and know and fight for a future where every person has the opportunity not just to get by but to get ahead and so we will continue to build what I call an opportunity economy that's right so that every American has an opportunity to buy a home or start a business or build intergenerational wealth and have a future that matches their dreams and Ambitions and aspirations cuz of course that's the nature of Who We Are As Americans we have dreams we can see what is possible unburdened by what has been we have aspirations we have Ambitions and the system that is a good system is one that supports that and allows people the opportunity to go where they can see and imagine themselves to be that's what I'm talking about when I talk about an opportunity economy we fight for a future where where every senior can retire with dignity and so we will continue to defend Social Security and Medicare and pensions and pensions and pensions and we will continue to strengthen America's manufacturing sector and on that point the president mentioned it us steel is an historic American company and it is vital for our nation to maintain strong American steel companies and I couldn't agree more with President Biden us steel should remain American owned and American operated and I will always have the back of America's steel workers and all of America's workers so friends 64 days until the most election of our lives and probably one of the most important in the life of our nation truly and we know this is going to be a tight race to the very end yes it's going to be a tight race to the very end so let's not pay too much attention to those polls because as unions and labor Knows Best we know what it's like to be the underdog and we are the underdog in this race and we have some hard work then ahead of us but here's the beauty of us in this room we like hard work hard work is good work hard work is joyful [Applause] work and so in this fight I will continue to count on the strength the determination and the hard work of the leader in this room to knock on doors to get folks to the polls and bluntly put cuz the people in here do it to help us win Pennsylvania that's [Applause] right so today I ask are you ready to make your voices heard do we believe in Freedom do we believe in Opportunity do we believe in the promise of America and are we ready to fight for it and when we fight we win God bless [Applause] you you you you Youk you thank you thank you thank you you thank [Applause] you well I've celebrated many Labor Days in Pittsburgh and it's always good to be back with so many great friends many who flew with me on Air Force One today represent the unit has been with me since the beginning of my career they not that old but they since I as a 29y old kid I want to thank Liz Schuler the AFL CIO and Kenny at the ibw for that strong endorsement by the way we have an expression in Delaware ibw when I ran for president they're the ones that BR me to the dance starting off not a joke Dave mcole the steel workers yeah Dave in 1972 still workers of the First Union endorse a 29-year-old kid named Joe Biden was no enough to be Senator when he got elected it mattered guy named UI carella was a district president because we used to have one of the largest labor forces in Claymont Delaware in North over 4,000 workers and it was anyway it all went law went South but UI yui went to the National president I iwel and he said he wanted me he wanted me to get endorsed everybody thought it was crazy I literally wasn't old enough to be sworn in the day I got elected but guess what president able stuck with me that's [Applause] right and they got stuck with me for the rest of their my career Eric Dean the iron workers Tim disco of brick player April the SEIU Lee Saunders rashman and a great friend and Jimmy Williams the painters Allied trades and his dad his dad is a really good man Mike Coleman a sheet metal worker well also got some of the best elected officials in America Governor Josh shapir is doing an incredible job the great lieutenant governor Austin Davis and one of America's best words Ed gainy Ed you're doing a hell of a job s nadoo County Executive I think it's the hardest job in American politics everybody knows where you live and I think you can solve all the problems you don't have enough money but I tell you one thing I'm the first president ever I used to be a county official when I was 26 years old and always bothered me that count the state the federal government would send money to the state to be distributed to the county what the hell the state going to send to the county for All State reps need the money right but guess what under my Administration it goes straight to this County one of my best friends my name is Joe Biden I'm from Scranton [Applause] Pennsylvania Bobby casy's been a great friend his dad was a great friend as well and by the way we grew up three blocks from one another three blocks and uh they still worry about us by showing up guess what I've on North Washington he was an Adams guess what they've renamed North Washington Avenue down where I live Biden way wor the effort Bobby Bob will make sure we that you get reelected again and while we couldn't be here I want to thank his partner in the Senate John fedman but if you're in a foxhole you want fedman in there with you he couldn't be here today but guess what he sent the best part of the family jelle she's [Applause] here let me just say it means so much to be with a true friend a true friend the vice president and the next great president of United States of America look folks I come from two neighborhoods where it's not hard to say the word Union but you know what fact of the matter is an awful lot of politicians have a trouble saying Union like up working people that's guess what I'm not one of them neither as comma we know the simple truth Wall Street did not build America the middle class Built America and unions built class that's a [Applause] fact by the [Applause] way that is not a slogan that's a fact I asked the treasury Department to do a study and it shows that when unions do well all workers in America do better that's a fact that's a fact [Applause] it's the biggest reason why our economy is the strongest economy in the world today without question because of unions you [Applause] know my dad like many of his generation going into World War II wasn't able to go to go to college my dad was a really well- read guy and he was always engaged and he come home from work before he go back and close up the shop and uh for dinner and the dinner was a place where we had discussions and incidentally eight you know my dad taught me my dad would say this all the time remember Joey a job and I give you my word to this a job is about a lot more than a paycheck it's about your dignity it's about the community it's about your place in the community and it's about being able to look your kidney eye and say honey it's going to be okay in mean it well that's why that's why Kai are so proud so proud of the greatest job creation record of any president in a single term in American [Applause] history 16 million new jobs so [Applause] far 800,000 manufacturing jobs eight years ago how many times you hear about we can no longer be the manufacturing Capital world where the hell is that written we are the greatest manufacturing city county in the world state in the world C in the world I'm going to remain that way I'll tell you something Kai are damn proud that we predicted the pensions of over 1 million workers retirees you remember all those years the promis we're going to do something about it well damn it we finally did with the Butch Lewis act over 52,000 workers of retirees across Pennsylvania alone are benefiting from that not only did we store the full amount we got them their back pay as [Applause] well we made them whole again as everyone said to Brock that's a big deal yeah that's a long story yes heard lizen Kenny describe another big deal union workers rebuilding American infrastructure and building new factories here in America they told me we couldn't get any thing done in infrastructure a trillion $200 billion do we got done [Applause] remember Trump for four years promised every month infrastructure week for four years he promised that he didn't build a damn thing nothing I mean not nothing well thanks to our infrastructure Law Pennsylvania so far has received $17 billion $17 billion [Applause] over 2,000 projects from clean water to Affordable high speed internet for every Pennsylvanian thank you the projects that include $858 million to expand the Montgomery lock better to accommodate bigger barges to get millions of tons of goods and Sh shelves FAS and more reliable and create thousands of union jobs I was working on the great lakes and I got a call from Bob from Senator Casey he's been no bigger Champion than Casey for this you know what I call him I call him the Casey locks not Goldilocks the Casey locks Bobby's also a champion of Pennsylvania's energy communities we passed what's called Casey credit available to 45 Pennsylvania counties where energy job such as coal where coal mining and have been before disappeared before we came to office the casy credit provides major incentives or companies to build new battery factories wind turbines and more to create high paying jobs in those coal and natural gas communities and on top of that there's over $4 billion dollar in private companies have committed to investing clean energy Advanced manufacturing here in Pennsylvania for billion and guess what we your support I signed an executive order to make sure large Federal construction projects all use project labor [Applause] agreements Folks at home who may be watching this and tell them know what a project labor agreement is is when contract s subcontractors and unions put in place before construction begins what the rules are before it begins these agreements make sure construction is topnotch on time on task and by the way on budget there's another big deal by americ that's been the law since 1930 I got to admit I've been around I'm only 40 but I've been around a long time but I quite frankly until 10 years ago wasn't aware you know back in the 30s when they're trying to make sure unions could organize and business couldn't interfere the a law was passed that said every penny the president gets from the Senate the house and Congress to spend on a project he should hire an American worker and use an American product but past administration that's right seriously past administration including my press predecessor failed to buy America they shipped jobs overseas where labor was cheaper and brought home the product that was more expensive but not anymore Federal projects build American roads Bridges highways and to be made with American products by American workers that's why that's why we're creating all these serious it's simple and basic that's why we're creating so many good paying jobs in fact we're requiring those kinds of projects to pay Davis Baker prevailing wages so their jobs that can raise a family arm many of those jobs don't require college degree in fact we expanded registered apprenticeships remember all the hell I got for doing that we got for doing that well guess what resulted in hiring over 1 million appr since we came to office and lots of folks don't realize getting an apprenticeship is like getting a college degree why you have to train for four or five years to get that and some of the best workers in the world arise we where we are we are you know when you're in Pittsburgh you're standing with steel workers let's be clear I believe in American steel companies American owned and operated steel companies a simple reason it's not hyperbole America still work of the best steel workers in the world and I made it clear last time I was in Pittsburgh the United States Steel an iconic American company for more than a century is going to remain in amer Amer company remember as a young Senator why the National Labor Relations Board was sometimes so anti- labor it was set up to help labor to be Pro labor well guess what that's why one of the most significant things we've done Comm and I is appointing a National Labor Reserve board Rel board that actually believes in unions and believes in recogniz big deal it's a big deal remember we have short memories I'm all for forgiveness I'm not for this Trump appointed Union Busters on that board no it's a fact but it's real it affects people's lives we going to let that son of a gun do that again folks made a lot of progress and K and I are going to build on that progress and she's going to build on it I'll be on the sidelines but I'll do everything I can to help but look I'm not joking what I say this is not a joke when I said this when I was rning in 2020 a lot of people didn't believe me you did but didn't not didn't believe me it's all at risk because of Donald Trump literally with the stroke of the P he get rid of a lot of this and do you think this guy gives a about your pensions no no I'm serious you think he Lo loses even an instant of sleep over it you think he cares about all the work you do every day and how hard it is you think he cares about good paying jobs for hardworking people who built this economy no hell he regards picket lines he'd rather cross one than walk one but I have no problem walking the pricket line never have M Nord does comma we'll always walk alongside alongside you union workers built this country and again that's not hyperbole that's a fact these are these are facts these not campaign slogans let me close this five years ago I began my campaign for President right here in Pittsburgh I said one of the reason I was running was to rebuild the backbone and spine of America the middle class and working class folks not a joke think about it think about it well 5 years later we've done just that I'm back in Pittsburgh on Labor Day again with a simple message as we look at this election I spelled my SP my whole career believing in unions I'm not joking when I say that I'm honored to be considered the most Pro Union president ever y by the way remember all the talk Biden got elected he's going to do a planned economy we're going to collapse and there's going to be all this caving in interest rates are going to go through the ceiling come on man I'm here to tell you it's about in inreasing the strength of your union is what this all about if you care about hardworking people just give them a fair shot everyone in America deserves a fair shot no gu a fair [Applause] shot if you care about the Dignity of work you care about the Dignity of work and I mean it matters the Dignity of work the way you're treated the decency yes I remember when my great-grandfather was one of the only the second Catholic elected Statewide to the state senate here in p pen Sylvania and I remember they talked about when he when they're running against him in 1906 they said guess what they said he's a Molly Maguire you know what a Molly Maguire was well those of you who don't am Molly Maguire back in the in the old days when we Irish and the Catholics came and then the poles and others that were catholic when they came to the United States of America and it beginning in the 1840s and late 1840s they made their way down in Pennsylvania a lot of them and there there's a tear in this in the coal mines those guys who got their last ended up being the last people in the coal mines but a lot of the English own the coal mines and what they did was they'd really beat the hell out of the the mostly Catholic population was in the mines not not a joke not a joke but there was a group that called the Mala magui and the Mala Maguire if they find out the foreman who was taking advantage of an individual and they literally to kill him not a joke and they bring him body up and put him on the doorstep of his family kind of crude but I got to admit they accused my great-grandfather being a m he wasn't but we were so damn disappointed no that's a joke that's a joke look it's about the Dignity of work it's about how you're treated and when I met with the ibw when I started off this last campaign first I said there's two things that asking of me and I said two things I'm asking of you one you got to open up your unions to more women show and [Applause] two the more minorities you've done both that and guess what instead of having supported 30% of American now we're 65% of American support the American union movement it really is all about the Dignity of work then there's only if you care about the Dignity of work there's only one person you have a rational Choice with this time that's common HS not [Applause] let me tell you about [Applause] this I know her I trust her not a joke I trust her number two the first decision I made to nominate his nominee in 2020 was selecting her as my vice president that's by the way it was a single best decision I made as president of United States of America I was watching something sent to me when they asked Barack they said Barack picked me as vice president because he knew I could be president I know she'll be a good president I know I've watched it when all the experts foreign and domestic policy would give us advice then we sit alone in a room and she has a backbone like a ram rod she has a moral compass of a saint this woman knows what she's doing folks I promise you if you elect KL Harris as president will be the best DES in you will have ever made pleas as I do the unions are the spine of this economy she'll be historic pro-union president yeah so folks we got one more job to do together let me ask you are you ready to fight are you ready to win are you ready to let KL Harris our next president United States of and in the process are you ready to make Donald Trump a loser again I've never been more optimistic about americ you we have to remember who we are we're the United States of America there's nothing nothing I mean this from the bottom of my heart there's nothing beyond our capacity nothing when we do it together and that means elect my friend our great vice president Pres United States kamla Harris look good afternoon P thank you [Applause] Joe you you you you thank you thank you thank you thank you [Applause] it is good to be in the house of Labor to be in the house of Labor and it is good to be back at ibw Local 5 and can we please give it up again for our President Joe Biden now I don't have to tell the brothers and sisters of Labor that you really get to know somebody when you're in the middle of a fight that's right when times are hard when the forces are Mighty when people don't believe something can get done and they have a thousand excuses for why it can't get done and I have spent more time with this extraordinary human being when the cameras were not in the room when the Stakes were High when the heat was intense and Joe Biden has always stood with the workers of America and labor unions of America always always I've been with him when he'll bring folks into the Oval Office and you know how Joe can get sometimes he doesn't spare words it's good that sometimes the cameras are not in the room when he has those conversations because the thing about the Joe Biden I know and I know you know because he has been a friend friend of labor for so long for his whole life Joe Biden can be quite impatient and that's a good thing for that kind of leader quite impatient and I say to all of the friends here the Press that's in the room history will show what we here know Joe Biden has been one of the most transformative presidents in the United States that we have ever witnessed and it comes from his [Applause] [Applause] heart and you know Joe and I talk a lot about the fact that we are so proud to be the most pro- union Administration in America's history [Applause] thank and as We Know Joe still got a lot of work to do so let's let's also understand that um so I want to thank all the incredible leaders who are here today um including the governor Shapiro lieutenant governor Davis Senator Casey who we will reelect this November mayor gaining president Schuler president Cooper all the leaders of Labor who are here all the union members who are here so I'll just get right to a few points I love Labor Day I love celebrating Labor Day and Pittsburgh of course is a cradle of the American labor movement it is the birthplace of the AFL headquarters of the steel workers home to Firefighters local one and of course the historic ibw Local 5 for more than 150 years the brothers and sisters of Labor have help lead the fight for fair pay better benefits and safe working conditions and every person in our nation has benefited from that work you know everywhere I go I tell people you may not be a union member but you better thank unions for that 5-day work week thank unions for sick leave thank unions for pay family leave thank unions for your vacation time because when union wages go up everybody's wages go up when Union workplaces are safer all workplaces are safer when unions are strong America is strong and we are clear not only has Pittsburgh shaped the history of America's labor movement today you are also shaping its future in 2021 with my dear friend the secretary Marty Walsh who the president appointed to be Secretary of Labor he and I hosted a meeting right here in this local and it was part of the White House labor task force that I lead that day we met with a group of computer programmers who were working to form a union one month later they signed their contract and became the first one of the first technology unions in our nation standing on the shoulder of all those who have been here and fought the good fight so Pittsburgh I I remind us of that to say together we are fighting to build an economy that works for all working people that's right and that has always been the vision of the labor movement and that is the vision of our campaign you know in this election there are two very different Visions for our nation sure right one ours focused on the future the other focused on the past we fight for the future we fight for a future of dignity respect and opportunity for all people we right knowing it's some backward thinking for those folks to have been suggesting for years that the the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down you know that's the stuff they're pushing that's right that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down when we know the true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up who you lift up do you fight for workers do you fight for families do you fight for those who must be seen and heard and deserve the dignity that comes with hard work that's what we fight for and when you know what you stand for you know what to fight for so we're 64 days out from this election [Music] ballots in Pennsylvania will start dropping in 14 days 14 days and this election is as much as anything else a fight for the promise of America for the promise of America we love our country we love our country and we know it is one of the highest forms of patriotism to fight for the ideals of our country and that's what this election is about and about the promise of America and I don't need to tell unions what the promise looks like it's what you do every day but as we fight to move forward Donald Trump is trying to pull us backward including back to to a time before workers had the freedom to organize he's going to jail well the courts will handle that and we will handle November how about that we'll handle November let's the courts handle that another thing but we're not going back we're not going we're not going back we're not going going going back and one of the ways one of the ways we're going to guarantee we don't go back is that we remember right it is important to remember what that was and what it is remember as president Donald Trump blocked overtime benefits for millions of [Applause] workers he opposed efforts to raise the minimum wage as the president said he appointed Union Busters to the National Labor Relations Board and don't forget he supported so-called right to work laws and if Donald Trump were to be reelected he intends to give more tax cuts to billionaires in big corporations he intends to cut Social Security and Medicare he wants to impose what in effect would be a national sales tax I call it the Trump National sales taag on everyday products and basic necessities that would cost a typical American Family The Economist have said this almost $4,000 a [Music] year he intends to repeal the Affordable Care Act and take us back to what we remember cuz it wasn't that long ago was a time when insurance companies could deny people with pre-existing conditions you remember what that was children with asthma breast cancer survivors grandparents with diabetes well look America has tried those failed policies before and we are not going back we are not going back we're not going back we're not going back not going back we're not going back we're not going back and instead and instead we fight for a future where no person has to go broke just because they get sick and so building on the work of President Joe Biden and I and the work we have done in the white house we will continue to strengthen the Affordable Care Act and make prescription drugs affordable for all Americans we we we fight for a future where every worker has the freedom to organize and we will pass the Pro act and end union busting once and for all and Bob Casey will help us do [Applause] that we we see and know and fight for a future where every person has the opportunity not just to get by but to get ahead right and so we will continue to build what I call an opportunity economy that's right so that every American has an opportunity to buy a home or start a business or build intergenerational wealth and have a future that matches their dreams and Ambitions and aspirations cuz of course that's the nature of who we are as Americans we have dreams we can see what is possible unburdened by what has been we have aspirations we have Ambitions and the system that is a good system is one that supports that and allows people the opportunity to go where they can see and imagine themselves to be that's what I'm talking about when I talk about an opportunity economy we fight for a future where every senior can retire with dignity and so we will continue to defend social Social Security and Medicare and pensions and pensions and pensions and we will continue to strengthen America's manufacturing sector and on that point the president mentioned it us steel is an historic American company and it is vital for our nation to maintain strong American steel companies and I couldn't agree more with President Biden us steel should remain American-owned and American operat and I will always have the back of America steel workers and all of America's workers so friends 64 days until the most election of our lives and probably one of the most important in the life of our nation truly and we know this is going to be a tight race to the very end yes it's going to be a tight race to the very end so let's not pay too much attention to those polls because as unions and labor knows best we know what it's like to be the underdog and we are the underdog in this race and we have some hard work then ahead of us but here's the beauty of us in this room we like hard work hard work is good work hard work is joyful [Applause] work and so in this fight I will continue to count on the strength the determination and the hard work of the leaders in this room to knock on doors to get folks to the polls and bluntly put cuz the people in here do it to help us win Pennsylvania that's [Applause] right so today I ask are you ready to make your voices heard do we believe in Freedom do we believe in Opportunity do we believe in the promise of America and are we ready to fight for it and when we fight we win God bless [Applause] you Youk you you you you you than you thank you thank you thank you well I've celebrated many Labor Days in Pittsburgh and it's always good to be back with so many great friends many whom flew with me on Air Force One today represent the UN has been with me since the beginning of my career they not that old but they since I was a 29y old kid I want to thank Liz Schuler the [Applause] CIO and Kenny of the ibw for that strong endorsement by the way we have an expression in Delaware ibw when I ran for president they're the ones that BR me to the dance starting off not a joke and Dave mccole the steel workers yeah Dave in 1972 still workers of the First Union endorse a 29-year-old kid named Joe Biden wasn't no want to be Senator when he got elected it mattered guy named UI carcella was the district president because we used to have one of the largest labor forces in Claymont Delaware and North over 4,000 workers and it was anyway it all went law went South but UI UI went to the National president I iwel and he said he wanted me he wanted me to get endorsed everybody thought it was crazy I literally wasn't old enough to be sworn in the day I got elected but guess what president abble stuck with me that's [Applause] right and they got stuck with me for the rest of their my career Eric Dean the iron workers Tim disco of brick players April the SEIU Le Saunders R and a great friend and Jimmy Williams the painters Alli trades and his dad his dad is a really good man Mike Coleman a sheet metal worker we also got some of the best elected officials of America Governor Josh shapir is doing an incredible job the great lieutenant governor Austin Davis and one of America's best words Ed gainy Ed you're doing a hell of a job s nadoo County Executive I think is the hardest job in American politics everybody knows you live and I think you can solve all the problems you don't have enough money but I tell you one thing I'm the first president ever I used to be a county official when I was 26 years old and always bothered me that count the state the federal government would send money to the state to be distributed to the county what the hell the state going to send the county for all the state reps need the money right but guess what under my Administration it go straight to this County one of my best friends my name is Joe Biden I'm from Scranton [Applause] Pennsylvania Bobby casy has been a great friend his dad was a great friend as well and by the way we grew up three blocks from one another three blocks and uh they still worry about us by showing up guess what I was on North Washington Avenue he was an Adams guess what they renamed North Washington Avenue down where I live Biden way wor the effort Bobby B will make sure we get you get reelected again and while we couldn't be here I want to thank his partner in the Senate John fedman if you're in a foxhole you want Federman in there with you he couldn't be here today but guess what he sent the best part of the family jaelle she's [Applause] here let me just say it means so much to be with a true friend a true friend the vice president and the next great president of United States of America come on I come from two neighborhoods where it's not hard to say the word Union but you know what fact of the matter is an awful lot of politicians have a trouble saying Union like up working people that's guess what I'm not one of them neither as comma we know the simple truth Wall Street did not build America the middle class build America and unions built the middle class that's a [Applause] fact by the [Applause] way that's not slogan that's a fact I asked the treasury Department to do a study and it shows that when unions do well all workers in America do better that's a fact that's a [Applause] fact it's the biggest reason why our economy is the strongest economy in the world today without question because of unions you know my dad like many of his generation going into World War II wasn't able to go to go to college my dad was a really well- R guy and he was always engaged and he come home from work before he'd go back and close up the shop and uh for dinner and the dinner was a place where we had discussions and incidentally ate you know my dad taught me my dad would say this all the time remember Joey a job and I give you my word this a job is about a lot more than a paycheck it's about your dignity it's about the community it's about your place in the community it's about being able to look your kidney eye and say honey it's going to be okay and mean it well that's why that's why Kai are so proud so proud of the greatest job creation record of any president in a single term in American history [Applause] 16 million new jobs so far 800,000 manufacturing jobs eight years ago how many times you hear about what you can no longer be the manufacturing Capital world where the hell is that written we are the greatest manufacturing City County in the world state in the world C the world we going to remain that way I'll tell you something K are damn proud that we protected the pensions of over 1 million workers retire remember all those years of Promise we're going to do something about it well damn it we finally did with the Butch Lewis Act over 52,000 workers and retirees across Pennsylvania alone are benefiting from that not only did we store the full amount we got them their back pay as [Applause] well we made them whole again as anyone said to Brock that's a big deal yeah that's a long story yes heard lizen Kenny describe another big deal union workers rebuilding American infrastructure and building new factories here in America they told me we couldn't get anyt thing done in infrastructure a trillion $200 billion doll we got done remember Trump for four years promised every month infrastructure week for four years he promised that he didn't build a damn damn thing nothing I mean not nothing well thanks our infrastructure Law Pennsylvania so far has received $17 billion $17 [Applause] billion over 2,000 projects from clean water to affordable highspeed internet for every Pennsylvanian thank you the projects in include $858 million to expand the Montgomery lock better accommodate bigger barges to get millions of tons of goods and Sh shelves faster more reliable and create thousands of union jobs I was working on the great lakes and I got a call from Bob from Senator Casey he's been no bigger Champion than Casey this you know what I call them I call them the Casey locks not Goldilocks the Casey locks Bobby's also a champion of Pennsylvania's energy communities we passed what's called Casey credit available of 45 Pennsylvania counties where energy jobs such as coal where coal mining and have been before disappeared before we came to office the Casey credit provides major incentives for companies to build new battery factories wind turbines and more to create high paying jobs in those coal and natural gas communities and on top of that there's over $4 billion and private companies have committed to investing clean energy Advanced manufacturing here in Pennsylvania 4 billion doll and guess what with your support I signed an executive order to make sure large Federal construction projects all use project labor [Applause] agreements Folks at home who maybe watching this and tell them know what a project labor agreement is is When contractors subcontractors and unions put in place before construction begins what the rules are before it begins these agreements make sure construction is topnotch on on time on task and by the way on [Applause] budget there's another big deal by American that's been the law since 1930 I got to admit I've been around I'm only 40 but I've been around a long time but I quite frankly until 10 years ago wasn't aware you know back in the 30s when they're trying to make sure unions could organize and business couldn't interfere the law was passed that said every penny the president gets from the Senate the house and Congress to spend on a project he should hire an American worker and use an American product but past administration seriously past administration including my press pressor failed to buy America they shipped jobs overseas where labor was cheaper and brought home the product that was more expensive but not anymore Federal projects build American roads Bridges highways and to be made with American products by American workers that's why that's why we're creating all these I'm serious it's simple and basic that's why we're creating so many good paying jobs in fact we're requiring those kinds of projects to pay Davis Baker prevailing wages so their jobs that raise a family arm many of those jobs don't require college degree in fact we expanded registered apprenticeships remember all the hell I got for doing that we got for doing that well guess what resulted in hiring over 1 million apprentices since we came to office lots of folks don't realize getting an apprenticeship is like getting on the colle college degree why you have to train for four or five years to get that and some of the best workers in the world we where we are we are you know when you're in Pittsburgh you're standing with steel workers let's be clear I believe in American steel companies American owned and operated Steel company a simple reason it's not hyperbole America still of the best steel workers in the world and I made it clear last time I was in Pittsburgh United States Steel an iconic American company for more than a century is going to remain an American company [Applause] as a young Senator why the National Labor Relations Board was sometimes so anti- labor it was set up to help labor to be Pro labor well guess what that's why one of the most significant things we've done Comm and I is appointing a National Labor Reserve board regation board that actually believes in unions and believes in recogniz big deal it's a big deal remember we have short memories I'm all for forgiveness I'm not for this Trump appointed Union Busters on that board no it's a fact but it's real it affects people's lives we're going to let that son of a gun do that [Music] again folks made a lot of progress and K and I are going to build on that progress and she's going to build on it I'll be on the sidelines but I'll do everything I can to help but look I'm not joking what I say this is not a joke when I said this when I was R in 2020 a lot of people didn't believe me you did but not didn't believe me it's all at risk because of Donald Trump literally with a stroke of the Pand you get rid of a lot of this right and do you think this guy gives a damn about your pensions no no I'm serious do you think he Lo loses even an instant of sleep over it you think he cares about all the work you do every day and how hard it is no you think he cares about good paying jobs for hardworking people who built this economy hell he regards picket lines he'd rather cross one than walk one but I no problem walking the pricket line never have near nor does comma we always walkside alongside you union workers built this country and again that's not hyperbole that's a fact these are these are facts these not campaign slogans let me close with this five years ago I began my campaign for President right here in Pittsburgh I said one of the reasons I was running was to rebuild the backbone and spine of America the middle class and working class folks not a joke think about it think about it well 5 years later we've done just that I'm back in Pittsburgh on Labor Day again with a simple message as we look at this election I spelled my SP my whole career believing in unions I'm not joking when I say that I'm honored to be considered the most pro-union president ever y by the way remember all the talk Biden got elected he's going to do a planned economy we're going to collapse and there going to be the all this caving in interest rates are going to go through the ceiling come on man I'm here to tell you it's about increasing the strength of your unions is is all about if you care about hardworking people just give them a fair shot everyone in America deserves a fair shot no guar a fair shot if you care about the Dignity of work you care about the Dignity of work and I mean it matters the Dignity of work the way you're treated the decency yes I remember when my great-grandfather was one of the only the second Catholic elected Statewide to the state senate here in Pennsylvania and I remember they talked about when he when they're running against him in 1906 they said guess what they said he's a Molly Maguire you know what a Molly Maguire was well those of you don't Amal back in the in the old days when we Irish and Catholics came and then the poles and others that were catholic when they came to the United States of America in the beginning in the 1840s and late 1840s they made their way down in the Pennsylvania a lot of them and there there's a tear in this in the coal mines those guys who got there last ended up being the last people in the coal mines but a lot of the English own the coal mines and what they did was they'd really beat the hell out of the the mostly Catholic population that was in the mines not not a joke not a joke but there was a group that called the mly Maguire and the mly maggu if they find out the foreman who was taking advantage of an individual and they literally kill him not a joke and they bring him body up and put him on the door step of his family kind of crude but I got admit they accused my great-grandfather of being a mod he wasn't but we were so damn disappointed no that's a joke that's a joke look it's about the Dignity of work it's about how you're treated and when I met with the ibw I started off this last campaign first I said there's two things that asking of me and I said two things I'm asking of you one you got to open up your unions to more women not a show and [Applause] two the more minorities you've done both that and guess what instead of having supported 30% of the American leaders now we're 65% of the American support the American union movement it really is all about the Dignity of work then there's only if you care about the Dignity of work there's only one person you have a rational Choice with this time that's kis [Applause] not let me tell you about this [Applause] I know her I trust her not a joke I trust her number two the first decision I made the Nomine his nominee in 2020 was selecting her as my vice president that's right by the way it was the single best decision I made as president of the United States of America I was watching something sent to me when they asked Barack they said Barack pick me as vice president because he knew I could be president I know she'll be a good president know I watched it when all the experts foreign and domestic policy would give us advice then we sit alone in a room and she has a backbone like a ramrod W she has the moral compass of a saint this woman knows what she's doing folks I promise you if you elect KL haris as president will be the best is in you will have ever made pleas as I do the unions are the spine of this economy right she'll be historic pro-union president yeah so folks we got one more job to do together let me ask you are you ready to fight are you ready to win are you ready to let KL Harris our next president United States Amica and in the process are you ready to make Donald Trump a loser again I've never been more optimistic about America we have to remember who we are we're the United States of America there's nothing nothing I mean it's from the bottom of my heart there's nothing beyond our capacity nothing when we do it together and that means elect my friend our great vice president of P United States kamla Harris good afternoon Pittsburgh thank you [Applause] Joe thank Youk you thank you thank you thank you thank you you you [Applause] you it is good to be in the house of Labor and it is good to be back at ibw Local 5 and can we please give it up again for our President Joe Biden now I don't have to tell the brothers and sisters of Labor that you really get to know somebody when you're in the middle of a fight that's right when times are hard when the forces are Mighty when people don't believe something can get done and they have a thousand excuses for why it can't get done and I have spent more time with this extraordinary human being when the cameras were not in the room when the stakes were High when the heat was intense and Joe Biden has always stood with the workers of America and labor unions of America always always I've been with him when he'll bring folks into the Oval Office and you know how Joe can get sometimes he doesn't spare words it's good that sometimes the cameras are not in the room when he has those conversations because the thing about the Joe Biden I know and I know you know because he has been a friend friend of labor for so long for his whole life Joe Biden can be quite impatient and that's a good thing for that kind of leader quite impatient and I say to all of the friends here the Press that's in the room history will show what we here know Joe Biden has been one of the most transformative presidents in the United States that we have ever witnessed and it comes from his [Applause] [Applause] heart love and you know Joe and I talk a lot about the fact that we are so proud to be the most Pro Union Administration in America's history thank and as We Know Joe still got a lot of work to do so let's let's also understand that um so I want to thank all the incredible leaders who are here today um including the governor Shapiro lieutenant governor Davis Senator Casey who we will reelect this November mayor gaining president Schuler president Cooper all the leaders of Labor who are here all the union members who are here so I'll just get right to a few points I love Labor Day I love celebrating Labor Day and Pittsburgh of course is a cradle of the American labor movement it is the birthplace of the AFL headquarters of the steel workers home to Firefighters local one and of course the historic ibw Local 5 good morning than 150 years the brothers and sisters of Labor have helped lead the fight for fair pay better benefits and safe working conditions and every person in our nation has benefited from that work you know everywhere I go I tell people you may not be a union member but you better thank unions for that five-day work week thank unions forly thank Union for pay family leave thank unions for your vacation time because when union wages go up everybody's wages go up when Union workplaces are safer all workplaces are safer when unions are strong America is strong and we are clear not only has Pittsburgh shaped the history of America's labor movement today you are also shaping its future in 2021 with my dear friend the secretary Marty Walsh who the president appointed to be Secretary of Labor he and I hosted a meeting right here in this local and it was part of the White House labor task force that lead that day we met with a group of computer programmers who were working to form a union one month later they signed their contract and became the first one of the first technology unions in our nation standing on the shoulder of all those who have been here and fought the good fight so Pittsburgh I I remind us of that to say together we are fighting to build an economy that works for all working people that's right and that has always been the vision of the labor movement and that is the vision of our campaign you know in this election there are two very different Visions for our nation sure right one ours focused on the future the other focused on the past we fight for the future we fight for a future of dignity respect and opportunity for all people we fight knowing it's some backward thinking for those folks to have been suggesting for years that the the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down you know that's the stuff they're pushing that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down when we know the true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up who you lift up do you fight for workers do you fight for families do you fight for those who must be seen and heard and deserve the dignity that comes with hard work that's what we fight for and when you know what you stand for you know what to fight for so we're 64 days out from this election ballots in Pennsylvania will start dropping in 14 days 14 days and this election is as much as anything else a fight for the promise of America for the promise of America we love our country we love our country and we know it is one of the highest forms of patriotism to fight for the ideals of our country and that's what this election is about and about the promise of America and I don't need to tell unions what the promise looks like it's what you do every day but as we fight to move forward Donald Trump is trying to pull us backward yeah including back to a time before workers had the freedom to organize he's going to jail well the courts will handle that and we will handle November how about that we'll handle November let the courts handle that another thing but we're not going back going we're not going back we're not going back we're not going back we not going back we're not going back and one of the ways one of the ways we're going to guarantee we don't go back is that we remember right it is important to remember what that was and what it is remember as president Donald Trump blocked overtime benefits for millions of [Applause] workers he opposed efforts to raise the minimum wage as the president said he appointed Union Busters to the National Labor Relations Board and don't forget he supported so-called right to work laws and if Donald Trump were to be reelected he intends to give more tax cuts to billionaires in big corporations he intends to cut Social Security and Medicare he wants to impose what in effect would be a national sales taag I call it the Trump National sales taag on everyday products and basic necessities that would cost a typical American Family The Economist have said this almost $4,000 a [Music] year he intends to repeal the Affordable Care Act and take take us back to what we remember cuz it wasn't that long ago was a time when insurance companies could deny people with preexisting conditions you remember what that was children with asthma breast cancer survivors grandparents with diabetes Well look America has tried those failed policies before and we are not going back not going back we are not going back going back not going going back we're not going back we're not going back and instead and instead we fight for a future where no person has to go broke just cuz they get sick and so building on the work of President Joe Biden and I and the work we have done in the white house we will continue to strengthen the Affordable Care Act and make prescription drugs affordable for all Americans we we we fight for a future where every worker has the freedom to organize and we will pass the pro act and end union busting once and for all and Bob Casey will help us do that we we see and know and fight for a future where every person has the opportunity not just to get by but to get ahead and so we will continue to build what I call an opportunity economy that's right so that every American has an opportunity to buy a home or start a business or build intergenerational wealth and have a future that matches their dreams and Ambitions and aspirations cuz of course that's the nature of who we are as Americans we have dreams we can see what is possible unburdened by what has been we have aspirations we have Ambitions and the system that is a good system is one that supports that and allows people the opportunity to go where they can see and imagine themselves to be that's what I'm talking about when I talk about an opportunity economy we fight for a future where every senior can retire with dignity and so we will continue to defend Social Security and Medicare and pensions and pensions and pensions and we will continue to strengthen America's manufacturing sector and on that point the president mentioned it us steel is an historic American company and it is vital for our nation to maintain strong American steel companies and I couldn't agree more with President Biden us steel should remain American owned and American operated and I will always have the back of America steel workers and all of America's workers so friends 64 days until the most election of our lives and probably one of the most important in the life of our nation truly it and we know this is going to be a tight race to the very end yes it's going to be a tight race to the very end so let's not pay too much attention to those polls because as unions and labor knows best we know what it's like to be the underdog and we are the underdog in this race and we have some hard work then ahead of us but here's the beauty of us in this room we like hard work hard work is good work hard work is joyful work and so in this fight I will continue to count on the strength the determination and the hard work of the leaders in this room to knock on doors to get folks to the polls and bluntly put cuz the people in here do it to help us win Pennsylvania that's [Applause] right so today I ask are you ready to make your voices heard do we believe in Freedom do we believe in Opportunity do we believe in the promise of America and are we ready to fight for it and when we fight we win God bless you [Applause] thank you thank Youk you thank Youk you thank you thank Youk you than you thank you thank [Applause] you folks I've celebrated many Labor Days in Pittsburgh and it's always good to be back with so many great friends [Music] many whom flew with me on Air Force One today representive Union has been with me since the beginning of my career they not that old but they since I was a 29y old kid I want to thank Liz Schuler the F [Applause] CIO and Kenny of the ibw for that strong endorsement by the way we have't expression in Delaware ibw when I ran for president they're the ones that BR me to the dance starting off not a joke Dave mcco the steel workers yeah Dave in 1972 still workers of the First Union Endor a 29-year-old kid named Joe Biden was no want to be Senator when he got elected it mattered guy named UI carcel was a district president because we used to have one of the largest labor forces in Claymont Delaware in North over 4,000 workers and it was anyway it all went law went South but yui yui went to the National president I iwel and he said he wanted me he wanted me to get endorsed everybody thought it was crazy I literally wasn't old enough to be sworn in the day I got elected but guess what president able stuck with me that's [Applause] right and they got stuck with me for the rest of their my career Eric Dean the iron workers Tim D of brick player April the SEIU Le Saunders rashman and a great friend and Jimmy Williams the painters Allied trades and his dad his dad is a really good man Mike Coleman a sheet metal worker we also got some of the best elected officials in America Governor Josh shapir is doing an incredible job the great lieutenant governor Austin Davis and one of America's best words Ed gainy Ed you're doing a hell of a job s Nido County Executive I think it's the hardest job in American politics everybody knows where you live and they think you can solve all the problems you don't have enough money but I tell you one thing I'm the first president ever I used to be a county official when I was 26 years old and always bothered me that count the state the federal government would send money to the state to be distributed to the county what the hell the state going to send to the county County for all the state reps need the money right but guess what under my Administration it go straight to this County one of my best friends my name is Joe Biden I'm from Scranton [Applause] Pennsylvania Bobby K has been a great great friend his dad was a great friend as well and by the way we grew up three blocks from one another three blocks and uh they still worry about us by showing up guess what I was on North Washington Avenue he was an Adams guess what they renamed North Washington Avenue down where I live Biden way wor the effort Bobby Bob will make sure we get you get reelected again and while we couldn't be here I want to thank his partner in the Senate John fedman but if you're in a foxhole you want fedman in there with you he couldn't be here today but guess what he sent the best part of the family jaelle she's [Applause] here let me just say it means so much to be with a true fan a true friend the vice president and the next great president of the United States of America look folks I come from two neighborhoods where it's not hard to say the word Union but you know what fact of the matter is an awful lot of politicians have a trouble Sayan Union like up working people that's guess what I'm not one of them neither as comma we know the simple truth Wall Street did not build America the middle class Built America and unions built the middle class that's a fact by the [Applause] way that is not a slogan that's a fact I asked the treasury Department to do a study and it shows that when unions do well all workers in America do better that's a fact that's a [Applause] fact it's the biggest reason why our economy is the strongest economy in the world today without question because of unions you [Applause] know my dad like many of his generation going to in the World War II wasn't able to go to go to college my dad was a really well- read guy and he was always engaged and he come home from work before he' go back close up the shop and uh for dinner and the dinner is a place where we had discussions and incidentally eight you know my dad taught me my dad would say this all the time remember Joey a job and I give you my word to this a job is about a lot more than a paycheck it's about your dignity it's about the community it's about your place in the community and it's about being able to look your kidney eye and say honey it's going to be okay and mean it well that's why that's why K are so proud so proud of the greatest job creation record of any president in a single term in American history [Applause] 16 million new jobs so far 800,000 manufacturing jobs eight years ago how many times you hear about we can no longer be the manufacturing Capital world where the hell is that written we are the greatest manufacturing city county in the world state in the world city in the world I'm going to remain that way I'll tell you something Kamai are damn proud that we predicted the pensions of over 1 million workers entire age remember all those years the promis we're going to do something about it well damn it we finally did with the Butch Lewis act over 52,000 workers of reti across Pennsylvania alone are benefited from that not only did we store the full amount we got them their back pay as [Applause] well we made them whole again as everyone said to Brock that's a big deal yeah that's a long story yes heard lizen Kenny describe another big deal union workers rebuilding American infrastructure and building new factories here in America they told me we couldn't get any thing done in infrastructure a trillion 20000 billion do we got G remember Trump for four years promised every month infrastructure week for four years he promised that he didn't build a damn thing nothing I mean not nothing well thanks to our infrastructure Law Pennsylvania so far has received $17 billion $17 [Applause] billion over 2,000 projects from clean water to Affordable highs speeded internet for every Pennsylvanian the projects that include $858 million to expand the Montgomery lock better accommodate bigger barges to get millions of tons of goods and Sh shelves fast and more reliable and create thousands of union jobs I was working on the great lakes and I got a call from Bob from Senator Casey he's been no bigger Champion than Casey for this you know what I call him I call him the Casey locks not Goldilocks the Casey locks Bobby is also a champion of Pennsylvania's energy communities we passed what's called casy credit available of 45 Pennsylvania counties where energy jobs such as coal where coal mining and have been before it disappeared before we came to office the Casey credit provides major incentives for companies to build new battery factories wind turbines and more to create high paying jobs in those coal and natural gas communities and on top of that there's over $4 billion in private companies have committed to investing clean energy Advanced manufacturing here in Pennsylvania for billion and guess what we here support I signed an executive order to make sure large Federal construction projects all use project labor agreement [Applause] Folks at home who may be watching this and tell them know what a project labor agreement is is When contractors subcontractors and unions put in place before construction begins what the rules are before it begins these agreements make sure construction is topnotch on time on task and by the way on budget yeah there's another big deal by American that's been the law since 1930 I got to admit I've been around I'm only 40 but I've been around a long time but I quite frankly until 10 years ago wasn't aware you know back in the 30s when they're trying to make sure unions could organize and business couldn't interfere but a law was passed that said every Penny the president gets from the Senate the house and Congress to spend on a project he should hire an American worker and use an American product but past administration right cers past administration including my press predecessor failed to buy America they shipped jobs overseas where labor was cheaper and brought home the product that was more expensive but not anymore Federal projects build American roads Bridges highways and to be made with American products by American workers that's why that's why we're creating all these I'm serious it's simple and basic that's why we're creating so many good paying jobs in fact we're requiring those kinds of projects to pay Davis Baker prevailing wages so their jobs that can raise a family arm many of those jobs don't require a college degree in fact we expanded registered apprenticeships remember all the hell I got for doing that we got for doing that well guess what resulted in hiring over 1 million apprentices since we came to office and lots of folks don't realize getting apprenticeship is like getting a college degree why you have to train for four or five years to get that and some of the best workers in the world rise we where we are we are you know when you're in Pittsburgh you're standing with steel workers let's be clear I believe in American steel companies American owned and operated steel companies a simple reason it's not I terbly America of the best steel workers in the world and I made it clear last time I was in Pittsburgh United States Steel an iconic American company for more than a century is going to remain an American company remember as a young Senator why the National Labor Relations Board was sometime so anti- labor it was set up to help labor to be Pro labor well guess what that's why one the most significant things we've done Comm and I is appointing a National Labor Reser board relation board that actually believes in unions and believes and recogniz a big deal it's a big deal remember we have short memories I'm all for forgiveness I'm not for for this Trump appointed Union Busters on that board no it's a fact but it's real it affects people's lives we going to let that son of a gun do that [Music] again folks made a lot of progress and K and I are going to build on that progress and she's going to build on it I'll be on the sidelines but I'll do everything I can to help but look I'm not joking what I say this is not a joke when I said this when I was rning in 2020 a lot of people didn't believe me you did but not didn't believe me it's all at risk because of Donald Trump literally with the stroke of the pen he get rid of a lot of this and do you think this guy gives a damn about your pensions no I'm serious do you think he Lo loses even an instant of sleep over it you think he cares about all the work you do every day and how hard it is you think he cares about good paying jobs for hardworking people who built this economy hell he regards picket lines he'd rather cross one than walk one but I have no problem walking the pricket line never have me nor ises comma we'll always walkside alongside you union workers built this country and again that's not hyperb that's a fact these are these are facts these not campaign slogans let me close with this five years ago I began my campaign for President right here in Pittsburgh I said one of the reasons I was running was to rebuild the backbone and spine of America the middle class and working class folks not a joke think about it think about it well 5 years later we've done just that I'm back in Pittsburgh on Labor Day again with a simple message as you look at this election I spelled my SP my whole career believing in unions I'm not joking when I say that I'm honored to be considered the most pro-union president ever yeah y by the way remember all the talk Biden got elected he's going to do a planned economy we're going to collapse and there's going to be all this caving in interest rates are going to go through the ceiling come on man I'm here to tell you it's about increasing the strength of your unions this all about if you care about hardworking people just give them a fair shot everyone in America deserves a fair shot no guar a fair [Applause] shot if you care about the Dignity of work you care about the Dignity of work and I mean it matters the Dignity of work the way you're treated the decency I remember when my great-grandfather was one of the only the second Catholic elected Statewide to the state senate here in Pennsylvania and I remember they talked about when he when they're running against him in 1906 they said guess what they said he's a Molly Maguire you know what Amal guire was well those of you who don't Amal aguire back in the in the old days when we Irish and the Catholics came and then the polls and others that were catholic when they came to the United States of America and it beginning in the 1840s and late 1840s they made their way down in the Pennsylvania a lot of them and there there's a tear in this in the co mines those guys who got their last ended up being the last people in the coal mines but a lot of the English own the coal mines and what they did was they'd really beat the hell out of the the mostly C population was in the mines not not a joke not a joke but there was a group that called the Mal magui and the Mala Maguire if they'd find out the foreman who was taking advantage of an individual and they literally kill him not a joke and they bring him body up and put him on the doorstep of his family kind of crude but I got to admit they accused my great-grandfather being a m he wasn't but we were so damn disappointed no that's a joke that's a joke look it's about the Dignity of work it's about how you're treated and when I met with the ibw when I started off this last campaign first I said there's two things that asking of me and I said two things I'm asking of you one you got to open up your unions to more women not a CH and [Applause] two the more minorities you've done both that and guess what instead of having supported 30% of the American leaders now are 65% of the American support the American union movement it really is all about the Dignity of work then there's only if you care about the Dignity of work there's only one person you have a rational Choice with this time that's KL haris [Applause] not let me tell you about this [Applause] I know her I trust her not a joke I trust her number two the first decision I made to Nomine his nominee in 2020 was selecting her as my vice president by the way it was a single best decision I made as president of United States of America I was watching something sent to me when they asked Barack they said Barack picked me as vice president because he knew I could be president I know she'll be a good president I know I've watched them on all the experts foreign and domestic policy would give us advice then we sit alone in a room and she has a backbone like a ramrod she has the moral compass of a saint this woman knows what she's doing folks I promise you if you elect KL hris as president will be the best is in you will have ever Madea as I do the unions are the spine of this economy that's right she'll be a historic pro-union president yeah so folks we got one more job to do together let me ask you are you ready to fight fight are you ready to win are you ready to let KL Harris our next president of United States and in the process are you ready to make Donald Trump a loser again I've never been more optimistic about America we have to remember who we are for the United States of America there's nothing nothing I mean this from the bottom of my heart there's nothing beyond our capacity nothing when we do it together and that means elect my friend our great vice president of President United States Kamala Harris you you you good afternoon Pittsburgh thank you Joe thank you than you thank you than you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you