In Ohio, Obama says little about June unemployment U.S. President Barack Obama made little comment on the June unemployment rate Friday as he tried to whip up his supporters in Poland, Ohio. Audience members cheer as President Barack Obama arrives for a campaign event in Parma, Ohio on July 5, 2012. Obama is on a two day bus trip through Ohio and Pennsylvania. AKRON, Ohio, July 6 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama made little comment on the June unemployment rate Friday as he tried to whip up his supporters in Poland, Ohio. Obama, on the second day of his campaign buscapade across Ohio and Pennsylvania, told supporters the creation of 80,000 jobs last month is "a step in the right direction," albeit a small step. The Labor Department Friday said unemployment held steady in June at 8.2 percent. I want to get back to a time when middle-class families and those working to get into the middle class have some basic security. That's our goal," Obama told supporters at Dobbins Elementary School. Obama got an early start to the day at Ann's Place diner in Akron where he breakfasted on hash browns, eggs, bacon, wheat toast, grits and coffee and chatted up fellow diners before boarding the bus for the Summer Garden Food Manufacturing plant in Boardman, Ohio, which produces canned spaghetti sauce from mostly locally grown produce. While workers were distracted, taking pictures with Obama, some boxes got out of alignment and started toppling. Earlier at the diner, Obama joined three Goodyear employees at their table. "This is a section they call the troublemakers," the president said as he approached a table of men wearing baseball caps. He then advised them: "Don't do anything wrong while these guys have the cameras on. They'll catch you. The men were identified as Rick Nixon, who has worked at Goodyear in Akron for two decades and is a political coordinator of United Auto Workers Local 21, Jim DiFalco who has done two stints at Goodyear, the latest beginning in 1992, and whose father and grandmother worked for the company, and Keith Ross, who makes racing tires for NASCAR at Goodyear. In his final appearance Thursday, Obama noted the progress that has been made since the recession hit in late 2007 and ran through the litany of things he wants from Congress, criticizing likely Republican opponent Mitt Romney's proposals as more of the policies that triggered the recession in the first place.