Building trade unions denounce labor partnership with billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer

Washington Post ^ | May 16, 2016 | Matea Gold

[OddLane]

A new super PAC partnership between billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer, the AFL-CIO and major public sector employee unions has triggered an angry backlash among the building trade unions -- dividing organized labor just as it ramps up its 2016 political programs.

In letters delivered Monday to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, the presidents of eight building trade organizations called on the AFL-CIO to cut ties with Steyer, whose opposition to an extension of the Keystone XL Pipeline infuriated unions that had championed the jobs that the oil pipeline would have created.

[Hugin]

The missive was signed by the heads of the North America’s Building Trades Unions; the Laborers’ International Union of North America; the International Union of Operating Engineers; the International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Allied Workers; the United Association Union of Plumbers, Fitters, Welders, and Service Technicians; the Operative Plasterers’ and Cement Masons’ International Association; the International Union of Elevator Constructors and the United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers, & Allied Workers.

Possible Trump endorsers.

[BlueLancer]

"The missive was signed by the heads of the North America’s Building Trades Unions; the Laborers’ International Union of North America; the International Union of Operating Engineers; the International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Allied Workers; the United Association Union of Plumbers, Fitters, Welders, and Service Technicians; the Operative Plasterers’ and Cement Masons’ International Association; the International Union of Elevator Constructors and the United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers, & Allied Workers."

And the People's Front of Judea, The Campaign for a Free Galilee, the Popular Front for the Judean People, the People's Popular Front for the People of Judea, and Judean People's Front ...

SPLITTERS!

[dfwgator]

And the People's Front of Judea, The Campaign for a Free Galilee, the Popular Front for the Judean People, the People's Popular Front for the People of Judea, and Judean People's Front ...

"The only people we hate more than the Romans are the ____ing Judean People's Front."

[OddLane]

LOL.

They have a point though.

Guys like Trumka and Stern couldn't give a rat's *** what happens to their membership-or prospective membership-in the long run, so long as their palms are greased and they retain their power.

[SunkenCiv]

Steyer's been opposing the Keystone XL pipeline and its construction would mean thousands of jobs -- union jobs, mostly. Trumka is the parasitic growth on the parasitic growth (gubmint employee unions) on the parasitic growth (bureaucrats). Thanks OddLane.

[OddLane]

Don’t mention it.