Vice-President Joe Biden, chair of the new Middle Class Working Families Task Force, in an interview yesterday with CNBC:
"I do believe--and I make no apologies for it--that over the last 100 years the middle class was built on the back of organized labor. Without their weight, heft and their insistence starting in the early 1900s we wouldn't have the middle class we have now, in my view. So I think labor getting a fair share of the pie is part of it."
