Posted on 11/06/2015 12:49:34 PM PST by doug from upland
The main union for construction workers is accusing President Obama of throwing them "under the bus" by rejecting the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
The Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA) is one of the few labor unions that broke with the majority of Democrats and supported the project, which Obama rejected Friday after a seven-year review.
"We are dismayed and disgusted that the President has once again thrown the members of LIUNA, and other hard-working, blue-collar workers under the bus of his vaunted 'legacy,' while doing little or nothing to make a real difference in global climate change," Terry O'Sullivan, the union's general president, said in a statement. "His actions are shameful." The group's statement cited a State Department report that Keystone could reduce greenhouse gas emissions when compared with oil transportation by rail.
"But facts apparently mean as little to the president as the construction jobs he repeatedly derided as insignificant because they are 'temporary,' " O'Sullivan said. "Ironically, the very temporary nature of the president's own job seems to be fueling a legacy of doing permanent harm to middle- and working class families
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Yup. Great opportunity for The Trumpster here.
The mob/union bosses might bitch, but they will continue to support/bribe the Democrats. Been that way for a century, no reason to change it now.
Maybe it’s time the Unions wise up, get rid of their commie/thief leadership and throw in with the Republicans, who won’t force their companies overseas due to high taxes.
So many contradictions, so little time.
Well, gee union guy, this is what happens when you join a party that represents groups that have mutually exclusive goals. The group with the most lobbying money wins, and it appears that group is not you...thank you for playing
Would not surprise me in a bit.
Frankly, Obama is trying to leave a mess for Trump to have to clean up.
Obama is throwing the country under the bus.
At one time, during her husband’s term of national office, wasn’t Hillary made the patron saint of the international laborer’s union? Pretty sure she was. They could throw her until the bulldozer for this.
This decision will pretty much put a final nail into the coffin of union support for the Dems.
....Or rather leaving the country in a mess for the Trump to clean up.
Welocme to the rest of the country, union!
Imagine how much worse it will be in 14 months from now.
The union workers are definitely under Obama’s bus but a lot of the rest of us are there too. The purpose of the pipeline was far beyond the jobs to be created in its construction. A major slice of America’s economic future depends in part on this pipeline. Ditto for Canada.
Yes but you’ll still vote Democrat anyway, won’t you union thugs?
Good. More votes by blue collar workers for Trump.
This is all collusion.
Trump gave Obama a lot of money to turn down the pipeline so Trump can run on the issue.
Or,,,,,,,,,,,something like that..........
Suckers!
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