The Fight for America’s Workers.docx

?Hello，Milwaukee! ?(Applause.) ?Hello,Milwaukee! ?(Applause.) ?Thank you. ?It is good to be back in Milwaukee. ?It is good to be -- I’m almost home. ?(Applause.) I just hop on the 94 and I’m home. ?(Applause.) ?Take it all the way to the South Side.It is good -- it is good to be here on such a beautiful day. ?Happy Labor Day, everybody. ?(Applause.) ?I want to say thank you to the Milwaukee Area Labor Council and all of my brothers and sisters in the AFL-CIO for inviting me to spend this day with you -- (applause) -- a day that belongs to the working men and women of America.I want to acknowledge your outstanding national president, a man who knows that a strong economy needs a strong labor movement: ?Rich Trumka. (Applause.) ?Thank you to the president of Wisconsin AFL-CIO Dave Newby. ?(Applause.) ?Our host, your area Labor Council Secretary-Treasurer Sheila Cochran. ?I hear it’s Sheila’s birthday tomorrow. ?Where is she? ?(Applause.) ?Happy birthday, Sheila. ?(Applause.) ?I’m proud to be here with our Secretary of Labor, a daughter of union members, Hilda Solis. ?(Applause.) ?And our Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood is in the house. ?(Applause.) And I want everybody to give it up for people who are at the forefront of every fight for Wisconsin’s working men and women -- Senator Herb Kohl; Congresswoman Gwen Moore. ?(Applause.) ?Your outstanding mayor and I believe soon to be outstanding governor Tom Barrett is in the house. ?(Applause.) And I know -- I know your other great senator, Russ Feingold, was here earlier standing with you and your families just like he always has. ?Now he’s in his hometown of Janesville to participate in their Labor Day parade.So it is good to be back. ?Now, of course, this isn’t my first time at Laborfest. ?Some of you remember I stood right here with you two years ago when I was still a candidate for this office. ?(Applause.) ?And during that campaign, we talked about how, for years, the values of hard work and responsibility tha