DEARBORN — Vice President Biden met with a few local Iraqi American community leaders while giving a speech at the annual labor day parade in Detroit. 

Iraqi Christians shared their concerns with Biden about the plight of religious minorities in Iraq. Ismat Karmo, president of the Chaldean Assyrians Syriac Counsel of America, was one of the Iraqi Christians who addressed the issue with Biden.

Speaking at the event, Biden said there is a war on organized labor that must be reversed. 

“Why in God’s name does someone who makes tens of millions managing a hedge fund pay only 15 percent in taxes, while the average GM worker who makes $55,000 a year pays 25 percent in taxes?” Biden told the crowd. “America has always done best when we act as one America. When we do, the nation succeeds.”