Union power puts bread on our tables, roofs over our heads. It sends our children to college, and union power helps us retire with security,

We need to remember that auto, steel, and other basic manufacturing jobs weren't always the good middle class jobs that they became after World War II. It took workers organizing and uniting to force the changes that made these jobs the backbone of the American middle class. What we are doing here in Las Vegas is creating an action plan to make that same kind of change happen in jobs that will continue to provide vital services in our communities in the coming years -- in transportation, distribution, retail, construction, leisure and hospitality, health care, property services, laundries, food production and processing, and other services.

The fight starts here and continues from here.

You have to fight and hold on for all America, to say to all corporations in this country that in this day and age, America owes working families a decent life.

It's quite a transformation,

American workers play by the rules, but the rules no longer work. Wages are down, hours are up and the gap between rich and poor is staggering and growing.