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3 Unions That Endorsed Biden Seem Like They're Already Regretting It
westernjournal.com ^ | January 22, 2021 | Erin Coates

Posted on 01/22/2021 6:11:30 PM PST by lowbridge

Three unions seemed to be regretting endorsing President Joe Biden after his first day in office.

Biden revoked the construction permit for the Keystone XL oil pipeline on Wednesday, destroying thousands of union jobs.

“Leaving the Keystone XL pipeline permit in place would not be consistent with my Administration’s economic and climate imperatives,” Biden said, according to The Associated Press.

Keystone XL President Richard Prior said more than 1,000 unionized jobs would also be eliminated in the next few weeks as it slowly shuts down the construction of the 1,700-mile pipeline.

The United Association of Union Plumbers was one group that endorsed Biden last year, saying he would help it “win more work with good wages and benefits.”

“This endorsement is about putting UA members to work and fighting for fair wages and good benefits,” General President Mark McManus said in August.

Less than a year later, the union has expressed disappointment in Biden.

“In revoking this permit, the Biden Administration has chosen to listen to the voices of fringe activists instead of union members and the American consumer on Day 1,” McManus said in a statement.

“Sadly, the Biden Administration has now put thousands of union workers out of work. For the average American family, it means energy costs will go up and communities will no longer see the local investments that come with pipeline construction.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; bidenjobs; bidenkillsjobs; bidenunions; keystone; salutethemarines; unionplumbers; unions; unionsaredumb
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To: lowbridge

Had, liberals are stupid beyond description.


21 posted on 01/22/2021 6:34:55 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults. )
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To: lowbridge

Like they say, be careful what you wish for. It’s only the beginning of the nightmare.


22 posted on 01/22/2021 6:37:35 PM PST by From The Deer Stand
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To: Grampa Dave

When democrat special interests collide with each other. The union guys against the environmentalists. I hope this happens again and again.


23 posted on 01/22/2021 6:41:14 PM PST by cradle of freedom (ET TU FOX NEWS. TRUMP TV THE ANTIDOTE TO FOX NEWS.)
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To: lowbridge

Union leadership got their bribes. They don’t care about the members.


24 posted on 01/22/2021 6:43:08 PM PST by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: lowbridge

Trump sent out mean tweets, so they had to go with the liar and plagiarist.


25 posted on 01/22/2021 6:43:13 PM PST by Riley85
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To: Riley85

The “liar and plagiarist” and PERVERT.


26 posted on 01/22/2021 6:46:49 PM PST by goodnesswins (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." -- Saul Alinksy)
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To: lowbridge

Are we hearing the very faintest sound, of the universe’s tiniest violin?
There is not enough “HA”s oR “ROTFLMAO”, in my computer to cover this!


27 posted on 01/22/2021 6:47:08 PM PST by GOYAKLA (Winning not whining!)
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To: lowbridge

I was a UA member from 79-94 and the leadership always endorsed every Democrat that ran. Even as they openly supported environmental policy which included shutting down Nuke plant construction and oil related industries they would support them. I would argue with them this would kill our jobs but it fell on deaf ears.

The only time they didn’t was in 1984 and without supporting Reagan, they came out and said to support your local candidates that would support projects that would benefit us.


28 posted on 01/22/2021 6:49:47 PM PST by shotgun
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To: lowbridge

Unions are like the black voters...
No matter how badly the communists in power have hurt them with false promises over the past 100 years, they will continue to blindly vote for them...


29 posted on 01/22/2021 6:51:57 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: GOYAKLA

Don’t know what they are upset about (if they really are). Biden told them what was coming. One example, from a pro-environmentalist website November 24, 2020: ““Biden strongly opposed the Keystone pipeline in the last administration, stood alongside President Obama and Secretary Kerry to reject it in 2015, and will proudly stand in the Roosevelt Room again as President and stop it for good by rescinding the Keystone XL pipeline permit,” the statement said.”


30 posted on 01/22/2021 6:52:43 PM PST by Robwin ( )
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To: immadashell

BS!! They knew EXACTLY what they were getting!! This is just telegraphing to dementia Jo they want more money on their coffers! C’mom folks smell the lattes!!


31 posted on 01/22/2021 6:54:20 PM PST by RoseofTexas
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To: lowbridge
Seems like a trend, doesn't it?

The GOP has alienated its base - middle-class blue collar workers - by conspiring with the left to take down Trump. Now Biden disses his base by shafting the unions, who are of the working class as well.

Do you suppose there is common ground for a new party here? The strangest of bedfellows, I know, but you have to draw followers from somewhere. You can't have a majority without at least SOME former Democrats in it, right?

32 posted on 01/22/2021 6:54:39 PM PST by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: lowbridge

Didn’t see that coming. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣


33 posted on 01/22/2021 6:56:42 PM PST by Zwerni1
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

That’s right. How can anyone be surprised by this? I’m talking about both the pipeline being canceled, and that labor unions endorsed a President that would cut good blue collar jobs.


34 posted on 01/22/2021 6:59:36 PM PST by MRadtke (Light a candle or curse the darkness?)
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To: lowbridge

Biden told them what he was going to do.

If they didn’t believe it, they are idiots.


35 posted on 01/22/2021 7:07:23 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.....)
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To: lowbridge

Face it. Even the dead and non-existent people who “voted” for the criminal usurper Biden are regretting it.


36 posted on 01/22/2021 7:10:34 PM PST by ThunderSleeps (Biden/Harris - illegitimate and everyone knows it.)
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To: goodnesswins

That would be PEDOPHILE PERVERT to those of us who believe our lying eyes.


37 posted on 01/22/2021 7:12:25 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: lowbridge

Unions. Overpaid and underworked since the New Deal.


38 posted on 01/22/2021 7:16:01 PM PST by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: metmom

I’ve always told people; “IF SOME SON OF’A BITCH SAYS HE or SHE WANTS KILL YOU, BELIEVE THEM”.

And take appropriate action.


39 posted on 01/22/2021 7:16:58 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Riley85

Treasonous MF fits better.


40 posted on 01/22/2021 7:17:53 PM PST by going hot
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