Here's UAW President Bob King at the Teamsters convention this week in Las Vegas. It's 17 minutes long, but it's worth it. Some favorite lines:
It's not just a war on unions or union workers. There is a war on all workers in the middle class in America...
There is not a democracy that exists today without a strong middle class, and the only thing that ever built a middle class is unions and the institution of collective bargaining...
I am not willing to accept a young man giving his life to protect our freedom and coming back to America and not being guaranteed a job...
The Teamsters and the UAW, together we built the middle class. We built the middle class by having big dreams. We do not dream big enough today...
It is not about a single election. We've got to win in 2012. We can win in 2012, but then we've got to keep alive a social justice movement that will march on Washington if the Democrats don't do what they're supposed to do...
