This is the only Labor Day message I received today from any of the Democratic candidates for president :
Today, I’m asking you to do one thing, and it has nothing to do with donating money to this campiagn.
When you cross paths with someone working a job that makes your day-to-day life better — and I promise you will, it will happen many times today — tell them “thank you.”
Tell them you appreciate the work that they do. That it matters to you, and to your community.
That’s it.
Say thank you to the people that build our roads and bridges. Keep our water systems working. Teach our kids and take care of the sick among us. Race into our burning buildings. Grow our food, build our cars, and pick up the garbage off our streets.
Say thank you — because these are the people who make America run. Not the Wall Street bankers, not the CEOs or hedge fund managers. Ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
Today, you’ll notice that a lot of politicians are afraid to say the word “union.” It’s one of the ugliest things about politics : The tendency to take a concept we all ought to be able to agree on, and contort it into something unrecognizable and divisive. Something false.
Here’s the truth : Unions built the American middle class. With the dues they paid, the picket lines they walked, and the negotiations they sweated through, fighting for rights that benefit every American worker.
Minimum wage. Overtime pay. The 40 – hour workweek. Being able to take weekends off. Non – union workers only have these rights because of the sacrifices made by organized labor.
I promise you if I’m elected president, together, we’ll protect and strengthen the right to organize and collectively bargain.
And, to workers : I’ll never forget the battles you’ve waged and victories you’ve won, and I’ll never forget to stand with you and with labor unions every day.
Joe
fredrichlariccia says
“Capital is the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not existed first! Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.” President Abraham Lincoln
fredrichlariccia says
A CEO, a union member, and a Tea Partier were sitting at a table. In the center of the table was a plate of a dozen cookies. The CEO grabs a dozen cookies for himself, then says to the tea partier, “Watch out for the union guy; he wants a pieces of your cookie.”
fredrichlariccia says
“The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.” Helen Keller
bob-gardner says
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-wont-demonize-the-rich_n_5d09ac63e4b0f7b74428e4c6
Addressing the 100 or so guests at a fundraiser at the swanky Carlyle Hotel in New York City, Biden said he’d gotten into hot soup with “some of the people on my team, on the Democratic side” for his earlier comments about rich people being “just as patriotic as poor people.” . . . .
Appearing to suggest that his tax plan would not include excessive taxes on the rich, Biden said “no one’s standard of living change” if he’s elected.
“The truth of the matter is, you all, you all know, you all know in your gut what has to be done. We can disagree in the margins but the truth of the matter is it’s all within our wheelhouse and nobody has to be punished. No one’s standard of living will change, nothing would fundamentally change,” he said.
fredrichlariccia says
“We must close union offices, confiscate their money and put their leaders in prison. We must reduce workers salaries nd take away their right to strike.” Adolph Hitler on May 2, 1933
fredrichlariccia says
“You can’t make any progress if you stop along the way to engage with every barking dog.” Winston Churchill
Christopher says
Unless Biden’s campaign is the only one for which you signed up for emails this is hardly the only message about Labor Day you received. My inbox was full of Labor Day messages from all the campaigns.
terrymcginty says
Presidential history shows that the candidate with the personal touch wins the presidency. We’ve got a few candidates with the intangible ‘personal touch’. Joe Biden is definitely one of them.
Christopher says
Except the knock on Biden is that he sometimes gets a bit too personal with his touch:)