Wait until West Virginians, Pennsylvanians, and possibly Ohioans see the latest EPA regulations against coal plants. Word is that 100 older coal-fired energy plants will have to shut down this year (how many jobs down the crapper?), and that many other plants many follow suit rather than spend a tremendous amount of money to retrofit themselves with new scrubbing technology (some retrofitting is needed but whether all of it is, is the question, and the time given to perform it is also a major problem).
PS: The EPA is going to regulate “greenhouse gases” that come from your car through the burning of gasoline. One of four major car-targetted EPA control programs now in the works.
There are a lot of United Mine Workers of America union members who may suddenly become ex-members due to AFL-CIO president Trumka’s support of Obama. Trumka’s an old marxist thug who once led the UMWA. He turned the AFL-CIO, once a bastion of anti-communist, pro-freedom patriots into a marxist cesspool of Communist Party -associated high level officials.
George Meany and Jay Lovestone must have shit in their graves over this betrayal of American labor.
In 2012, this may change for the best, and Trumka will be thrown out by his own union.
West Virginia will go for Romney, and Manchin knows it.
“A change is gonna come!”
Not a chance in hell.
Trumka is head of the AFL-CIO now which mostly represents government employees. Even though he was once head of the Mine Workers, he does not give a shit about them now.
They don't pay enough dues to catch his attention.
This is what people need to understand about unions today... they don't make money from the private sector anymore. It's mostly government employees who pay the dues.
Trumka wants more dues paying members and if killing the mine workers is what it takes, he'll gladly do it.
Bottom line: He does not give a damn about the 'working man'. He just wants the cash.