I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers.

It's a success story here in Michigan. We have hiring going on. We have new industries going on.

Labor Day is seen as a day of rest for many hardworking Americans.

We've got to keep an eye on the battle that we face - a war on workers. And you see it everywhere. It is the Tea Party. And there's only one way to beat and win that war - the one thing about working people is, we like a good fight.

What's going on in this country? Unions stand against those trends. We've got to somehow insulate the robust American economy from this global economy that seems to want to devour our standard of living.

All workers want is a fair shake.

We didn't start this war - the right wing did. We're tired of seeing good-paying jobs shipped overseas. This fight is about the economy, it's about jobs and it's about rebuilding America.