Trumka says labor wants Keystone built,believes green issues can be resolved(FLASHBACK)

The Hill ^ | 5/07/12 | Ben Geman

[mdittmar]

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka is backing construction of the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline in comments that downplay divisions among unions in the labor federation over the controversial project.

“They are not divided on the pipeline itself,” Trumka said in a C-SPAN interview when asked about differences among unions over Keystone. “They are divided on how the pipeline is done.”

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“I think we are all unanimous by saying we should build the pipeline, but we have to do it consistent with all environmental standards, and I think we can work that out, I really do, and we are for that happening,” Trumka said in the interview that aired Sunday.

[mdittmar]

That's a shame,Senate Democrats voted against it.

No jobs for the union guys.

[Don Corleone]

You just can’t make this stuff up.

[colorado tanker]

Oh, they want union jobs alright, but for the government unions.

In the modern Democrat Party the industrial and trades unions can go to hell. Guess Dickie hasn't figure that out yet.

[Bluestocking]

Democrats don’t simply take money from special interests, they auction themselves off to competing interest groups — in the Keystone Pipeline case, unions and environmentalists — in order to create a bidding war that will increase the price of their services.

How many United Auto Workers’ members lost their jobs because environmentalists demanded expensive mileage and other standards that helped bring GM and Chrysler to their knees? How many United Mine Workers’ members have been laid off to satisfy the imposition of draconian carbon standards?

The wealthier environmentalists always seem to win against the unions, whose bosses don’t seem to understand what’s going on.

Workers of America, unite! You have nothing to lose but the chains that bind you to ‘’leaders’’ like Richard Trumka, whose main concern in life is indulging themselves with ever-more-lavish union conventions in Boca Raton.

[Ditto]

Trumka does not give a damn about the Steelworkers, Teamsters, Pipe fitters or even the Coal Miners unions that he came from.

The guy is a freak'n Commie and the only Unions he gives a crap about are the government employee unions. He wants them to be bigger and more corrupt and powerful than ever.

Why the private sector trade unions guys even tolerate this punk is way beyond me. He slits their throats at every opportunity.

[SunkenCiv]

and from 2004:

• The Kerry Line: Kerry Supports Offshore Drilling in Florida
• Hoffa's Comments on Kerry Leave Some Perplexed (We're going to drill like never before-Kerry)
• Kerry stated he will drill ANWR! "we‘re going to be drilling all over the United States."
• Hardball Transcript Hoffa Claims Kerry supports ANWR
• HOFFA on Hardball: KERRY Now Supporting drilling in ANWR and everywhere in the US

IOW, don't you believe it!