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And wherever we can. i want to thank secretary walsh, marty, for leading that task force. that's why i want to see the congress pass the pro act and send it to my desk immediately. that's why i want to extend collective bargaining rights to state and local government employees and why transit workers, first responders, healthcare workers and other essential workers and guess what? the public seems to agree with that, as well. the government should never be a barrier to workers organizing. it's government's job to remove those barrier, but it is up to workers to make the choice whether to organ...

Steelworkers in portsmouth, virginia, and ibw workers and iron workers and nurses and grocery store workers in cincinnati, plumbers and gas fitters in maryland, aft teachers in virginia, and by the way, of course, i sleep with a member every night. the same one. jill had her first day of full-time teaching yesterday, this year, back to school. look, i've talked with union transit workers, machinist and labor workers in wisconsin. we've had teamsters here in the white house and the teamsters have always had my back and last week i met with the first responders in new orleans, and on monday i dr...

Authority, mta, port authority, all of our first responders embedded with the local teams here and throughout long island, nassau, suffolk, putnam, rockland counties have suffered some form of loss. we also have pumping systems in place, taking care of the subways, literally removing the water physically. i want to thank, first of all, everyone who was involved last night. but our transit workers are heroes, especially all the bus operators who had to be deployed to literally take people from stations to where they needed to go. so it's an extraordinary rescue operation just a few short hours ...

Embedded with the local teams and throughout long island, nassau and putnam we wanted to make sure our crews were on the ground. we have pumping systems taking care of the subways removing the water physically. i want to thank everyone who was involved last night but our transit workers are heroes. especially all the bus operators who had to be deployed to literally take people from stations to where they needed to go. it was an extraordinary rescue operation just a few short hours ago. moments ago i was on the phone with the white house, president biden called offered any assistance. he repea...

Staircases of our subway just last night, most of the service has been restored. that won't have any effect on our schools. the kids will be fine going back. our communities will be back to normal. you have to give credit to people like a bus driver who i went and thanked because she drove -- pictures of this went viral. she drove with four feet of water not just on the streets but in her bus and there were people clinging to the ceiling on their seats to not be swept away while on the bus. so i went out to the station and thanked these heroes, the bus drivers and the transit workers for doing...