Union bosses accused of working against interest of workers

 Stephen Moore:

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.
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It is clear that Democrats do not have the interests of the miners at heart.  Republicans should seize the opportunity and do so immediately.  If the miners and pipefitters vote for Democrats in 2022 they will be voting against their own interests.

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