Rick Snyder and Virg Bernero hit campaign trail for Labor Day

DETROIT (WXYZ) - Both major part candidates spent this Labor Day on the campaign trail.

For Republican nominee Rick Snyder, the day brought a big endorsement from labor. He picked up the endorsement from the Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters and Millwrights. The union represents 18,000 workers in Michigan.

Snyder says the endorsement is evidence that people in Michigan are tired of politics as usual. "We have a broken culture in our state. We have an attitude that we're too negative about things, but we're also too divisive," he says, "there's far too much win/lose attitude in our state, about partisanship, about geography, about racial and ethnic issues, about labor and management and it's time to bring people together. "

The Democratic nominee, Virg Bernero, spent the day campaigning on the street. He says Snyder's endorsement by the Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters and Millwrights is just another sign of how strange things are this year. "He is getting some [union support] and we're getting some business support," he say, " it's going to be mixed up, but when it comes to people on Main Street, actual, regular working folks, it's going to be very clear by Election Day that the team of Virg Bernero and Brenda Lawrence are two mayors for Main Street, getting the job done in our cities and we can get the job done for the state of Michigan."

Snyder's endorsement is not without controversy. The announcement was picketed by a group of people in cow suits. They say the represent the former employees of Gateway Computers whose jobs were sent overseas by Snyder when he ran the company.