Another pro-President Joe Biden union just told it’s rank-and-file members: Sorry, guys, you are all fired.
Last week, the United Mine Workers of America union endorsed Biden’s energy policies. Yes, you read that right. The coal-mining union bosses have embraced a bill that outlaws coal mining.
This is about as dumb as the Pipefitters Union endorsing Biden for president. He repaid them with his first act as president — killing the Keystone pipeline. So now we have the Pipefitters Union against pipelines and the coal miners union against coal.
Did anyone bother to actually ask the rank-and-file members what they thought? Can they get their union dues back?
They should. The livelihoods of more than 50,000 coal miners just got sold down the river by their own union bosses.
And for what? So these miners can be given Biden welfare checks, or so mining jobs, which typically pay $75,000 a year, can be replaced with solar panel installation? Ask any miner about that trade, as I have, and they will laugh in your face.
United Mine Workers of America president Benedict Arnold — actually, his name is Cecil Roberts — conceded that his union members “may lose a few more jobs here,” but he defended his capitulation to the Biden anti-coal radicals by saying: “We’re trying to, first of all, insert ourselves to the extent that we can in this conversation because our people, a lot of coal miners in this country, their families have suffered already some traumatic losses.”
So his solution is to make the trauma a whole lot worse thanks to his Neville Chamberlain appeasement to the green energy fanatics of his industry.
Cecil, why not instead DEFEND your industry? It’s not a heavy life.
America was built on coal. We are the king of coal. We have 500 years’ worth of this energy resource, in states from West Virginia to Wyoming. We have the cleanest coal in the world. It is STILL one of the cheapest and most reliable forms of power production. We still get about twice as much energy from coal as from wind and solar. And even if we were to move toward “renewables,” as the Texas power outages this winter should have taught us, coal is essential as a backup power source when wind turbines don’t turn and solar panels freeze over.
Don’t for a minute believe that shutting down American coal production will save the planet from warming. Nikkei Asia reports that China has “an addiction to coal,” and its use of coal is rapidly rising, not falling.
The Chinese are expected to build hundreds of new coal-fired power stations over the next decade. India, Vietnam, Indonesia and other Asian nations with a combined population that is at least five times that of the U.S. are also banking on coal as a major source of cheap power for decades to come. For every coal plant the U.S. shuts down, the rest of the world builds at least 10 new ones. Gee, that will stop global warming.
There is something wretched about rich, college-educated “humanitarians” pontificating about the sacrifices that must be made to stop global warming, but then they come up with plans that make other people — often who make far less money than they do — suffer all the pain. If climate change meant every college professor, media personality and million-dollar donor to the Environmental Defense Fund had to lose their livelihoods, I doubt they would be so supportive of this green economic “transformation.”
The victims of the new energy policies in Washington are the blue-collar workers whose job losses will continue to stack up. And the worst betrayal of all is that the unions are in on it.
Stephen Moore is a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation and an economic consultant with FreedomWorks. He is the co-author of “Trumponomics: Inside the America First Plan to Revive the American Economy.” To find out more about Stephen Moore and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
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“There’s nothing surer, the rich get rich and the poor get poorer
In the meantime, in between time, don’t we have fun”
The Democrat bought and paid for Union leaders get richer, the poor working slobs just get poorer. Ain’t socialist fun? Just ask the depopulated Russians where people will do anything to get out of their country, where walls and troops are needed to keep them in. Four million Soviet troops defected to the west during WWII. How many Americans living under Democrat Party Control are now defecting to Texas and Florida or anywhere they do not rule and destroy things like working productive social collectives called Unions, that just get in the way of the non-working wealth redistributing Democrat’s own larger political social collectives where people are pawns and power is everything. Enter the 21st century Great American migrations, of honest legal minded people migrating to states that honor the law,,,, and illegal entered foreigners migrating to states where illigality is rewarded to dwell with fellow people of the same criminal mindset. So much for the promised so cailed diversity.
MOre and more, i would just love to TAKE THE LEADERSHIP of every union, and expell them all into deep space..
Since these are such litigeous times the rank and file should sue the union for the return of all dues monies because they were collected under false pretenses. Union bosses are obviously siding with the so-called environmentalists who wish to destroy the entire energy grid of the country. Being a good Democrat is more important to these ‘leaders’ than the welfare of the dues paying members who trusted them to be their representatives; they were sold out!
THEY SHOULD, but i fear the lawyers would all side with the unions.. and so would all the corrupt worthless judges.
The unions are anti -job for their members and in bed with Biden and his Democrat communists. How is that for a dose of reality?
What members vote for these traitors?
Just an illustration of why the Amazon workers in Alabama rejected the union. Private sector unions lost out in the 1970’s when employers became concerned with the welfare of employees. The union bosses are mostly concerned with their own welfare, power and Washington cocktail circuit invitations.
HENCE why for years, i’ve been saying WE NEED TO end every damn union out there.
“The union bosses are mostly concerned with their own welfare, power”
This is the dishonorable, dishonest character of Democrats.
The Dishonorable, Socialist Democrat Party in the U.S. game plan is to lie, cheat and steal elections in order to take total control of the American people and bring American commerce and economy to its knees.
Then access power and retain it by any means available –
no matter the costs to the people, the government or the nation.
The Democrat Party supporter Fools think that the Democrat Party is good for them,
as the Democrat Party takes more of their blood.
Also, without coal, you can’t make steel. No US made steel means that you have to rely on China or other coal mining countries to get it. So your wind turbine towers, solar panels, and other “green energy” machines wind up getting made in China. Also, what happens to folks who build ships, bridges, and skyscrapers when they have to rely on foreign made steel? The idiocy of these Libs is just mind boggling! Any Dem in Congress who is anti-coal has no business being a part of the Congressional Steel Caucus.
SINE most dems are in china’s pockets, they would see that as a “GOOD” thing…
It’s **** like this that makes me ashamed to admit I was a union member (IBEW) my whole working career. Every election, they always promoted the disgusting dem-rat party. Always urged the membership to “Vote Democrat”. I’m proud to say I never voted for a dem-rat in my life. And it’s sad to see the union leadership selling out its own members, but it’s been like that for ages.
Disgusting.
Hope these people keep all this in mind at the next election, whether local, county, state, federal and remember what “political party” did this to them.
I don’t believe that the labor Unions can resist the power of the Federal Government , the unions are beholdened to that same Go ernment…
WHICH IS why for decades, i’ve felt ALL UNIONS need to go.