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Building trade unions denounce labor partnership with billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer
Washington Post ^
| May 16, 2016
| Matea Gold
Posted on 05/16/2016 1:05:22 PM PDT by 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.
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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: California; US: District of Columbia; US: New York
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posted on
05/16/2016 1:05:22 PM PDT
by
OddLane
To: OddLane
The missive was signed by the heads of the North Americas 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.
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posted on
05/16/2016 1:36:23 PM PDT
by
Hugin
(Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
To: Hugin
"The missive was signed by the heads of the North Americas 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!
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posted on
05/16/2016 1:46:40 PM PDT
by
BlueLancer
(Once is happenstance. Twice is circumstance. Three times is enemy action.)
To: BlueLancer
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."
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posted on
05/16/2016 1:48:18 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: BlueLancer; dfwgator
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.
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posted on
05/16/2016 2:09:10 PM PDT
by
OddLane
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
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.
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posted on
05/16/2016 2:09:18 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
05/16/2016 10:50:11 PM PDT
by
OddLane
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