Posted on 02/12/2019 8:57:17 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Labor unions say they are withholding support for a Green New Deal unveiled by Democrats last week to transition the American economy away from fossil fuels, arguing the loosely-defined plan could kill jobs if its architects aren’t careful.
The cool response from unions underscores the challenge facing Democratic presidential hopefuls who support aggressive action on climate change but must also win back the blue-collar voters that swept President Donald Trump to victory in 2016.
Democratic presidential hopeful Senators Kamala Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand, Cory Booker and Elizabeth Warren have already thrown their support behind it.
The resolution’s backers say the plan - once fully sketched out in the legislation - would create jobs in much the same way as President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal of the 1930s by putting Americans to work on transformative government-led projects.
It also calls for a “just transition” for current fossil fuel workers - from coal miners to pipeline workers - through guarantees of healthcare, jobs, and job training.
Union officials told Reuters they were skeptical.
“We will never settle for ‘just transition’ language as a solution to the job losses that will surely come from some of the policies in the resolution,” said Yvette Pena O’Sullivan, executive director of the Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA), whose members work in construction and other industries.
Phil Smith, a spokesman for the United Mine Workers (UMWA), which represents workers in the coal industry, echoed the concerns.
“We’ve heard words like ‘just transition’ before, but what does that really mean? Our members are worried about putting food on the table,” he said.
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AOC should start with her own state. Tear down all those buildings in NYC and rebuild them.
arguing the loosely-defined plan could kill jobs if its architects aren’t careful.
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Really? Are the Labor Unions that f*ing stupid? How can you do this “carefully”? Please explain.
hey, Labor Unions..
Learn to Code!!!
Union's realize no one will need union representation with universal income.
Elections do have consequences. LOL.
Labor bosses:
“You lose money? Good!”
“We lose money? Bad, bad, bad!”
Union people afraid of job losses due to Dem plans?
Jobs in——
Aircraft production,airline & airport jobs,auto industry jobs, auto sales and service,parking lots in cities and at airports, gas stations,manufacturing,suppliers of raw materials,steel and other materials (and roads that cars used to drive on-—now with horse drawn wagons on them.)
Oh, THOSE jobs. Now they get it.
Are you kidding me? What the hell are big Labor Union waiting for. These union leaders better wake up and realize there is no one left in the Democrat Party that knows what industrial, manufacturing, mining, infrastructure jobs are. Obama worked very hard to destroy American Blue collar workers and send their jobs overseas, millions of them.
Trump is sole support of the blue collar working class. It’s in his blood from his young days, when his father made him work with his multi ethnic construction workers and Trump fell in love with work ethics and their effective verbal communication with each other. Trump knows working people, men & women quite well, better then any current Democrat ever will..period. Union Leaders Wise up...the game has changed and Trump is your ticket to jobs, jobs, and more jobs!!!
On the bright side, the demotards want to pay people who are unwilling to work. Organize them into a union.
But whatever, the unions will never support the republicans so of course the dems just pat them on the head and say "aw, how cute, he has an opinion! now go back to your tinker toys while the grown ups decide your fate. Oh, leave the check on the table first though, thanks."
Tear them down and plant trees.
Why worry? Won’t they just get free money?
“On the bright side, the demotards want to pay people who are unwilling to work. Organize them into a union.”
But exactly how would they be able to “strike”?
Stop showing up to ANTIFA rallies.
Jobs threat? Kill jobs? More like de-industrialization down to the Civil War era.
I love it when the latest brew of identity politics, fake science, and socialism burns America’s globalist enemies.
“the loosely-defined plan could kill jobs”
Heck, it will probably kill this Republic.
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