Joe Biden, Tim Kaine speak downtown before Labor Day parade

[TomCADem]

Source: WTAE

PITTSBURGH —Vice President Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton’s vice-presidential running mate Tim Kaine spoke before Pittsburgh’s Labor Day parade on Monday.

The pair spoke at the intersection of Liberty Avenue and 10th Street prior to the parade.

Tim Kaine spoke on his campaign with HIllary Clinton and their economic agenda, saying Labor Day is “personal” to him.

Joe Biden, a native of Scranton, called Pittsburgh “a second home” during the rally.

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Watch how on Labor Day, the MSM ignores and censors the anti-worker stances of Trump and Pence and lets them lie while still ignoring any proposal offered by Hillary, except to the extent that it pertains to e-mails. This censorship of the real choices being presented is especially true given that Pence was a champion of "right-to-work" laws in Indiana, which were designed to weaken unions.

https://www.thenation.com/article/donald-trump-is-the-anti-labor-day-candidate-running-against-fair-wages-worker-rights-and-unions/

Donald Trump, the billionaire candidate who has argued that “having a low minimum wage is not a bad thing for this country” and complained in a 2015 GOP debate that wages are “too high,” is running for president this fall on the most virulently anti-worker and anti-union platform in the history of his Republican Party.

Trump and the anti-labor partisans who nominated him for the presidency have rejected the legacy of a Grand Old Party that once cheered when Abraham Lincoln declared: “Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”

For more than a century, Republicans made a serious effort to compete with Democrats for the votes of workers. And they did so not just by uttering a few kind words on Labor Day but by supporting and embracing pro-worker and pro-labor policies.

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 This year’s Republican platform is dismissive of the federal minimum wage, declaring (in a stance similar to the one Trump appears to have evolved toward) that decisions about base hourly wages “should be handled at the state and local level.” It endorses the anti-union “right-to-work” laws enacted by Republican governors such as Wisconsin’s Scott Walker, and calls for taking the anti-union crusade national with a proposal “for a national law” along “right-to-work” lines. The 2016 GOP platform also attacks the use of the Fair Labor Standard Act to protect workers; rips the use of Project Labor Agreements to raise wages and improve working conditions; and proposes to gut the 85-year-old Davis-Bacon Act, which guarantees “prevailing wage” pay for workers on federal projects.