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DENVER, Aug. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a transcript
of a speech, as prepared for delivery, by Roy Gross at the Democratic National
Convention on Thursday, August 28, 2008:
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Roy Gross
Democratic National Convention
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Remarks as Prepared for Delivery
My name is Roy Gross. I'm a proud member of Teamsters Local 299 in
Detroit, Michigan.
When I was a young man and wanted to start a family, I went to Detroit and
landed a job as an automobile transporter. I delivered new cars from the
assembly plants to dealerships around the country.
It was a great job, a Teamsters union job. You worked hard and it paid
good wages, plus health care and pension. I worked there for 18 years. Working
class families were doing well in Detroit until the Bush Administration took
office, then everything changed.
Manufacturing jobs were exported by the hundreds of thousands and replaced
with minimum-wage jobs in the so-called "New Economy." I'm one of the lucky
ones; I still have a job. But many of my friends and co-workers have lost
their jobs and their homes.
If you ask me, this so-called "New Economy" is not working. We need a
renewed economy. That's why I'm seeing so many of my friends in Michigan --
Democrats, Republicans and Independents -- putting aside their differences to
join this campaign.
Barack Obama will enact fair trade policies and work just as hard for us
as we work for America. I will do everything I can, from now until Election
Day, to put Michigan in the Obama column.
SOURCE 2008 Democratic National Convention Committee
