VP Biden delivers at Detroit Labor Day Rally

By Angelina Czarnecki/Tell Us USA News Network

DETROIT (Tell Us USA) - Vice President Joe Biden is using a Labor Day rally in Detroit to portray President Barack Obama's re-election campaign as a battle to defend the interest of working people from a Republican attack.

Thousands of union supporters marched under sunny skies Monday in the annual Metro Detroit AFL-CIO Labor Day parade, leading up to the rally. Within the crowd Senator Carl Levin, NAACP President Reverend Wendell Anthony, U.S. Representative Gary Peters and many others displayed their support.

Reaching the end of the march a count of 3,500 supporters gathered in anticipation for the Vice President to reach the stage and address key issues on the eve of the Democratic National Convention.

Vice President Biden connected with the crowd as he named the working American as the solution to rebuilding our country.

"Folks, you're the reason, you're the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures. Folks -- Your sacrifices -- you sacrificed to keep your companies open," Biden said.

You took a hit. Because of you Chrysler at the Jefferson North Plant just added another 1,100 jobs. ... Because of you and your productivity the combined auto companies have committed to invest another $23 billion dollars in expansion in America. Not the Bain way ... not in Mexico ... not in China ... not in Vietnam but in Detroit, Cleveland ... Right here in America!"

The working American was in high regards at the rally, Vice President Biden supported productive workers also stating his opposition to the Republican parties as working Americans to be the problem.

“ Organized labor are one of the reasons why this country is coming back.” stated Vice President Joe Biden

Biden says Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is out of touch with working people and says Democrats seek to replace "outsourcing with insourcing" to retain U.S. jobs.

A key issue discussed at the rally was on the subject of medicare. The “voucher care” plan implemented by the Republican parties was called out by the Vice President. Vice President Biden informed the crowd “if they win we are in trouble” and the crowds ranted in agreement.

Biden's speech is the latest of several in Michigan this summer. He addressed the American Federation of Teachers' Detroit national convention July 29 and spoke at a rally at Detroit Renaissance High School on Aug. 22. Obama attended at last year's Detroit Labor Day observance.


Krissah Thompson, White House Pool Reporter contributed to this story.