Posted on 05/28/2022 6:50:12 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) — The growing offshore wind industry is often touted as a boon for job creation, but who will do the work?
The U.S. energy secretary and Danish wind developer Orsted say they want American union workers to build offshore wind farms to dot the U.S. coastlines — the building trades workers who could otherwise be left out of a transition to renewable resources.
A majority of onshore wind and solar farms have been built either with non-union workers or without collective bargaining agreements, except for in California where unions are more involved in the industry, according to North America’s Building Trades Unions. Orsted signed a project labor agreement this month with the national union representing 3 million people in the building trades to construct the company’s U.S. offshore wind farms with an American union workforce.
“Our recent experience in the last two decades with onshore wind and solar has been that the majority of those projects are not built with us,” NABTU Secretary-Treasurer Brent Booker said this week. “So this is groundbreaking in setting the standard for an emerging industry here.”
Flanked by building trades members, Granholm said the administration is committed to creating “union jobs in America in this clean energy economy.” She said she wants predominantly American union workers to build U.S. offshore wind farms and would like to see project labor agreements in all aspects of the energy transition, drawing cheers from workers at the pier.
“That’s what we’d like, all union,” she told The Associated Press.
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Unions will make wind power even less efficient than it already is. LOL
Aren’t we lucky to have Granholm in charge?
The government should not be pushing unions. Of course, we all know why.
Great. Good union jobs. Can they perform without a government subsidy?
This plan for coastal power generation with windmill power is one big blow job.
If they can afford to pay the added costs of union labor, then they don’t need government subsidies.
(snicker, snicker)
Stop playing stupid with this solar and wind cr**.
So much for wind power being viable if only union thugs are allowed to build it.
Make the useless crap even more expensive
She knows nothing about energy, everything about Marxism.
We need to strengthen the Communist Unions to Implement Communist "Climate Change" Propaganda driven Communist Inefficiency in Energy Production, and wasteful Communist Economic Subsidies at Taxpayer Expense.
Payoffs for Commies!
Hey, that sounds like Ukraine.
If you take into account the energy needed to build a windmill - mining and transporting the iron ore, making the steel, shipping and installing the unit - a windmill will never, in its limited life cycle, be a net producer of energy. Plus, they are a blight on the land and sea scapes
Never doubt the whole climate scam is nothing but a money train to the rats. Making these jobs union just insures the rats get a cut of the union dues an donations. In fact, the climate BS is everything to the rats. Unlimited power, control and funding.
Biden ran on :
EVERY SINGLE JOB SHOULD BE A UNION JOB.
NOT in MY USA.........
I want to see UNION cowboys......
I suggest a bill that requires FIRST construction major off-shore wind power installations be off Martha’s Vineyard. Blanket the entire horizon with them.
Periodic Power generation, No Battery storage capability.
Requires fossil fuel plants to run on standby as backup.
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