SABINA, Ohio – Vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan sought on Saturday to undermine President Obama’s advantage in Ohio due to the administration's auto bailout by arguing that the government recovery unfairly favored unionized workers -- an accusation that an independent fact-checking website has disagreed with.

Ryan, speaking at a high school gym here, for the first time said that the bailout had been unfair to non-unionized, salaried workers at the Delphi Corp. plants, who saw their pensions slashed after the bailout even as their unionized counterparts saw their additional retirement benefits guaranteed.

“The president likes to go around Ohio talking about how he saved the auto industry, how the auto bailout was such a success. Tell you what: He hasn’t talked to these Oak Creek salaried employees, he hasn’t talked to these Ohio Delphi salaried employees because this is one of those examples of the government picking winners and losers,” Ryan said.

“And yes, they picked some losers, and those people are here with us and all they want is to have fairness. All they want is transparency and honesty from their federal government, and they’re not getting it. And they deserve better than that.”