Posted on 11/12/2011 11:38:38 AM PST by tobyhill
Terry O’Sullivan, General President of LIUNA – the Laborers’ International Union of North America – made the following statement today in response to the U.S. State Department delay of the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline:
Environmentalists formed a circle around the White House and within days the Obama Administration chose to inflict a potentially fatal delay to a project that is not just a pipeline, but is a lifeline for thousands of desperate working men and women. The Administration chose to support environmentalists over jobs – job-killers win, American workers lose.
Environmental groups from the Natural Resources Defense Council to the Sierra Club may be dancing in the streets, having delayed and possibly stopped yet another project that would put men and women back to work. While they celebrate, pipeline workers will continue to lose their homes and livelihoods.
We had hoped the decision would have been made on the basis of economics, facts and the best interests of the nation, not on the basis of a political calculation.
The State Department should have been freed to make its decision, and then allowed the state and people of Nebraska to proceed with their concerns through the many avenues available to them. That would have been a sign of the Administration’s support for jobs and a recognition that workers can’t wait until after the next election for a job.
We are extremely disappointed.
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I assume that was a rhetorical question!
Mexican trucks is even worse for the Teamsters and the Longshoremen. So is uncontrolled immigration. But Trumka is silent on the former and apparently in favor of the latter.
Again - ows needs to go to obama. He and he alone is causing this mess.
you do know that Obama is never going away
-PJ
Why we’re extremely disappointed!....really!?!? Rank and file you are being made the fool
What the Union members don’t understand. Obama wants to distribute their wealth overseas not here in the U.S..
Just like when he said he would end the coal business and the UMWA union’s whole homepage was an endorsement for him during the campaign.
“Just like when he said he would end the coal business and the UMWA union’s whole homepage was an endorsement for him during the campaign.”
It’s not like the Union LEADERSHIP were going to lose their jobs.
And after all, isn’t that what is REALLY important in the world of the leftist?
He does not plan to be a former president. He plans to be a permanent resident of the White House.
>> the Laborers’ International Union of North America
Like a give a crap about an “International” union. Is there a problem with being an “American” union?
Here’s a question: When one of the Dems “constituencies” get upset with their current leadership which of them run a third party candidate to suck away votes and help the Republicans?
I’ll give you the answer. It is not the unions. It is the red on the inside, green on the outside crowd.
If you understand that you will understand why it is the unions that find themselves under the bus and not the greenies.
Well at least our ObamaMao is consistent. He does only what is needed to make sure real jobs are not created. Only government work is needed and worthwhile to this crew as only government employees continue to draw on the treasury that he, Bernanke and the left are internet on bankrupting.
I fear nothing can stop them. it will only be up to us how we respond when the time comes.
I meant intent not internet. Sorry for the bad grammar guys.
My question is, why the hell wasn't this the message from the GOP? Why does it take a stinking Union thug to say what the Republicans should have been screaming all along?
I am truly beginning to think Boehner is a turncoat asshole just like McCain. Maybe the 'rats have pictures of Boehner in the shower with a ten year old boy. He sure acts like it, worthless spineless puke.
I agree in that it does not matter. The unions are on the demoKKKRAT plantation along with the majority of the black people.
Battered wife syndrome.
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