Posted on 08/01/2014 4:40:56 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Regulations: Well, well. Another big union has publicly declared that its members are the real front-line victims of the Obama administration's war on domestic energy production.
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers came out with guns blazing this week against the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed Clean Power Plan.
In a press release, it warns what we've been saying about these economically masochistic carbon emission regulations from the start: "They will kill more than 150,000 good jobs while having a minimal effect on global greenhouse emissions."
Their words, not ours — and driven home time and again in IBEW testimony at EPA field hearings in opposition to the new regulations.
"America needs an energy plan that balances the environment, the economy and jobs," said the union's president, Edwin Hill. "But the EPA's poorly thought-out rule will do nothing but kill vital jobs and threaten the reliability of the electrical grid, hurting customers and businesses."
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Maybe there’s hope the left’s coalition will start to splinter.
Yes, this topic is very shocking!
Too bad........ the commies... run the IBEW....
serves them right.. their greed overlaid their good sense..
What electrical workers want is whatever the commies say they want..
Hopefully most lose their jobs.. AND retirement..
Brilliant!
I have absolutely no sympathy. In fact I’m torn between regret for what is happening to the country and glee over watching union members and most especially IBEW #5 hoisted on their own petards.
IBEW 5 was militantly, violently pro-Obama in both elections. They thought that they’d be making a fortune and gaining enormous political power by wiring up all those green energy projects. Now it isn’t happening for them, in fact it’s pretty much the opposite.
Karma is a b*tch, baby. You all were warned. He TOLD you exactly what he planned to do and you ignored it. Now the Chickennnz. Have come Hoooommme. To Roooost!
Idiots.
That’s because Obama’s putting them out of work. My electrician nephew is setting glass to pay for his daughter’s surgery.
Obama screws pretty much everybody except socialists and muslims. IBEW just found this out a little later than the rest of us.
CC
Good for them...
Most electricians have some brains....lol (because I “R” 1)
The probably believed they’d get a windfall when Obama ordered us to have solar panels installed on every flat surface of our property (by unionized electricians, of course).
It is amazing how many Dem constituencies are SO much worse off than five years ago. Serves them right.
Many linemen and wiremen at out utility have a union sticker on 1 side and an NRA on the other. Only their bosses like democRATs
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