Tonight, working families across the country celebrate the re-election of President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden—and breathe a sigh of relief that our country will move forward on the path of sanity and shared prosperity. Nothing about the last four years has been easy, from the Great Recession to Hurricane Sandy, from unrelenting partisan obstruction by Republicans to the greatest onslaught of negative ads ever unleashed against an American president. Throughout the tumult, President Obama and Vice President Biden have been steadfast allies of working men and women and the values we cherish, focused on repairing the economy, rebuilding the ladder to the middle class and investing in our shared future. That’s why workers and their unions made a historic effort on their behalf, bringing home the vote for the president from Nevada to Ohio, from Wisconsin to Pennsylvania.
STATEMENT BY AFL-CIO PRESIDENT RICHARD TRUMKA ON PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA’S RE-ELECTION
by Toneshia Harris | Nov 6, 2012 | Local News