Biden: Unions Created America’s Middle Class

[Omaha Steve]

http://blog.aflcio.org/2007/05/17/biden-unions-created-americas-middle-class/

Biden: Unions Created America’s Middle Class

Steve Smith from the AFL-CIO Media Affairs Department joined union members in Florida for the fourth AFL-CIO town hall forum for 2008 presidential candidates.

Appearing before a packed Pipe Fitters union hall in Opa-Locka, Fla., Sen. Joe Biden set the tone for his 90-minute Working Families Vote 2008 town hall meeting right off the bat.



I’m in the U.S. Senate because of the union movement. I got elected by 3,000 votes in 1972 because of organized labor.

Biden, wearing a suit and a Pipefitters Local 725 hat, spoke with more than 250 boisterous union members who’d gathered to participate in the town hall, part of a series the AFL-CIO is holding with presidential candidates in cities across the nation.



Biden’s appearance combined serious discussion about policy on issues like the war in Iraq, retirement security and the freedom to join and form unions with personal—often poignant—recollections of how the union movement helped shape his career. He also showed a penchant for humor, peppering his remarks with amusing anecdotes that the crowd of union workers clearly enjoyed.

In the neighborhood I grew up in, you either became a fireman, policeman or a priest. I couldn’t do any of those things so I became a U.S. senator.

FULL story at link.

[Deja Q]

1. Wow. I thought he was merely a paid shill for the DMCA.

:applause:

[Hardrada]

2. Was ist "DMCA?"

[RaleighNCDUer]

4. Kinda like the YMCA

but without the good beat?

[Hardrada]

5. Ja, ganz sogleich!

[madrchsod]

3. did`t he vote for the fuck the great unwashed bankruptcy bill?

well well it looks like he did...ya a real good friend of the working class if one has a job.