Saluting Labor on Labor Day | Hillary Clinton

So if anyone asks you if labor will have a seat at the table in my white house, I hope

you know the answer...Of course you will, labor built the table and there is going to

be enough chairs around it for everybody to have a place.

Because you cannot have a strong government, and economy, and society without manufacturing;

and I am proud to be the New York AFL-CIO's favorite sister

because of all the work that I have done, and I will take that same commitment to the white house.

Mr. President I believe in the basic bargain and I believe that unions

help keep that bargain for America's working people. That's why it's so important to pass

the Employee Free Choice Act. Now it's now secret that on equal pay and many other issues

we're up against some pretty powerful forces, and I am here to tell you I am not afraid to take them on.

America is a land of builders and doers, there is hardly a square foot of

America that doesn't have your fingerprints on it; from the roads we drive on, to the

buildings we work it. And none of that would have been possible without your unions.

No one knows better than our unions what it means to fight for the underdog. Everyday, you are

are standing up for workers who need someone to stand up with them, and I am in this race