Last time I checked union goons are the barbarians.

Via The Hill:

Vice President Biden credited labor unions for building the middle class and “keeping the barbarians at the gates” in an impassioned speech on Wednesday to the United Auto Workers.

Biden criticized conservative groups for attacking collected bargaining rights, and said the declining influence of unions was hurting the middle class.

“The truth of the matter is, you built the middle class,” Biden said. “Labor built the middle class. And there’s a reason why the middle class is shrinking.”

He called collective bargaining a “bedrock of our economy” and criticized billionaire Home Depot founder Ken Langone for suggesting in a CNBC interview that wealthy Catholics might stop donating to the church if Pope Francis continued to make statements criticizing capitalism and income inequality.

“As a practicing Catholic, forgive me father for he has sinned,” the vice president quipped, earning a standing ovation. “C’mon.”