The coal miners were just one of the biggest saps in America to believe and support King Obama, the dictator and job killer. So suffer, miners. Get the hell out of the Union. You are going to end without anything the Union promised you. The Unions have lived out their usefulness.
As a former union Steamfitter (UA leads the way), I recall that in either 1982 or 1984 the UA Journal came out with their election endorsements. In the article it advised memebers to support their local candidate who they felt would best represent their interests. When I showed this to my dad who was until the day he died an anti-union Missouri Republican he nearly fell out of his chair.
I just looked at the UA website and they are also supporting Obama and praising his decision on the Oklahoma to the Gulf pipeline but mysteriously silent on Keystone.
From time to time I still run in to my friends that remain in the union and question them about why they support elitest, environmental, anti growth candidates and organizations that have publicly stated that are against every size, shape and type of industrial project or expansion of an existing facilty that would put tens of thousands of their union brothers to work! One of them is the Local shop organizer and I would consider him to have model Christian Conservative values in every sense but he votes with them lockstep, which I explain to him is he height of hypocrisy and he knows it..
On the flip side while I was still in the trade the day to day rank and file detested the “Toon” because he was a draft dodger.