Certainly sounding like a candidate…
Via Fox News:
Vice President Biden, who is contemplating a 2016 presidential bid, on Monday kicked off a Labor Day parade in Pittsburgh with a fiery, pro-worker speech that concluded with hundreds of union employees and others chanting “Run, Joe, run.”
“I am hot. I am mad. I am angry,” roared Biden after telling the crowd that too few Americans are benefiting from continually increasing U.S. productivity.
“Productivity went up 73 percent, but wages only went up 9 percent. … Something is wrong folks,” Biden said before the parade, on a stage he shared with AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. “CEOs now make 400-times as much as the average worker.”
Trumka and his powerful union hold a key endorsement for Democrats in the presidential race, which comes with member votes and the ability to organize and rally other American voters to the polls.
He told reporters last week that Biden is “a good friend and a great champion for working people” and criticized Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton for failing to “energize workers.”
However, he also said the Democratic primary race remains “wide open” and that people should not over-analyze him and Biden appearing on stage together.
“We are the American labor movement,” Trumka said Monday, “the most powerful movement on the face of the Earth.”