Unions Suffer Buyer’s Remorse With Biden | Eastern North Carolina Now

Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the John Locke Foundation. The author of this post is Mitch Kokai.

  Vivek Saxena reports for BizPac Review about the reaction among unions to President Biden's first actions in office.

  • Several unions that eagerly endorsed President Joe Biden during the 2020 presidential election are now learning the hard way what it means to support Democrat policies.
  • During his first day in office, the newly-inaugurated president revoked the construction permit for the Keystone XL oil pipeline, thus destroying thousands of jobs.
  • And not just any jobs — but union jobs.
  • TC Energy Corp., the Canadian company that shares ownership of the pipeline with the Alberta government, had estimated that 10,000 jobs — in addition to the 1,000 already established — would be created in 2021 alone thanks to the construction of the pipeline.
  • A total of 42,000 jobs were expected to be filled once the pipeline was completed.
  • But not anymore.
  • In response, several once unabashedly pro-Trump unions lashed out.
  • "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," Mark McManus, the president of the United Association of Union Plumbers and Pipefitters said in a statement Thursday.
  • "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."
  • But the problem is that the union endorsed Biden last year and repeatedly promoted his agenda. ...
  • ... The same holds true of the North American Building Trades Unions.
  • "North America's Building Trades Unions are deeply disappointed in the decision to cancel the Keystone XL permit on the President's first official day in office. Environmental ideologues have now prevailed, and over a thousand union men and women have been terminated from employment on the project," union president Sean McGarvey said in a statement Thursday.

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