W y'all are too kind thank you wow that
makes me excited nothing like being in
the Hall of Labor to feel good thank you
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IW we got any union members here
today I thought so it makes us all feel
good when you're here so thank you so
much for joining us you know in the
house of Labor we got to talk about the
jobs that are being created because
there good union jobs good salaries and
good benefits and that's what the Biden
Harris Administration has pushed for so
they
are they are the most union friendly
Administration we have had maybe ever
but certainly in a long long time so we
I hear from Democrats all the time well
you don't brag about it enough or you
don't talk about it enough or you don't
get enough credit for it you don't show
the contrast enough between what you're
doing and what they would do and what
they have done and so that's what we got
to do and we got to count on y'all to
help us do it so that's why you're
here you know just think about how far
we've come in the last three years since
Co you know Southern Nevada had the
highest unemployment in the country 35%
that's like the Great Depression but now
we've brought it down to about 5% could
be lower but that's a huge
accomplishment
and you know we've got more jobs more
businesses more people working more
minorities employed more small
businesses started we really have come
back and it is thanks to the investment
made by the Biden Harris
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Administration let's just let's just
take a look look at the scene these days
we got cones everywhere do any of y'all
drive past some
cones or call the County Commission
about those don't call me but seriously
those cones represent jobs those cones
represent investment improvement in our
infrastructure so people can get to
school get to work get to the hospital
get to pick up their children that's a
real investment if you just say
infrastructure people's eyes kind of R
over but if you talk about the street in
their yard uh or the something that
affects them like the expansion of of
the internet those are things that come
home to individuals and that's what we
need to talk about so we got all those
cones in that infrastructure I was
talking to the ibw guys we got more um
renewable energy being built so
we're we're not only creating good jobs
but we're helping Save the Planet at the
same time
doing well by doing good that I mean
that's that's what it's all about uh we
got greater access to the internet I
mentioned that better access for health
care now you only have to pay $35 for
insulin if you're on Medicare and that's
being expanded that is just a
lifechanging thing for people who have
diabetes so brought down the cost of
Health Care see what else we can
contrast how about all those sports
teams we got now
pretty exciting so who do you want for
the Super
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Bowl okay it's hard to cheer against the
underdog is it I think we got a mixed
crowd here so place your bets before you
leave and we'll see who comes out on top
but anyway that's another dimension of
Las Vegas we got jobs on the Strip now
we got more construction going on it's a
real positive time and who's going to
ride that super speed train to
California that is so exciting you know
I've been working on that for about I
don't want to tell you how many years
but Bob Miller first appointed me now
some of anybody in here remember Bob
Miller some of you weren't even born
when Bob Miller was governor but okay so
it's that long ago and now we've got the
labor deals made we got the
Environmental Studies we got the dollars
we are ready to go you can ride that
train down there to see the Olympics in
2026 in Southern California so let's
take a field trip what do you
say that train is going to take cars off
the road clean up the air create
30,000 labor jobs good union jobs
30,000 so now you've had an
Administration that stood with you that
fought for you that wanted to invest in
our future they walk the walk now we're
counting on y'all to talk the
talk doesn't seem like it's only January
it seems like it's the election's coming
up pretty soon so but we got to be ready
for it we got to talk about the contrast
we got to talk about the accomplishments
we got to talk about the other side we
can't be shy about that because they
will roll back all the progress that we
have made
and they've said it they don't even
pretend like they won't they have said
that's what they're going to do so my
advice to you is don't let them sell you
that same old in colge
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Sugar I'm counting on you I am counting
on you we can do this and we can do it
together and we have somebody here who
can certainly do it with us and that's
why it's so exciting to have the vice
president Harris back here in t thank
you all