Coal miners want Joe Manchin to reverse opposition to Build Back Better

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Guno צְבִי

We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
Senator Joe Manchin is facing calls from a powerful group close to his heart to reconsider his opposition to the Build Back Better Act: Coal miners.

A day after the West Virginia Democrat appeared to kill Build Back Better, America's largest coal mining union put out a statement lauding the legislation's provisions and pushing Manchin to take a do-over.
"We are disappointed that the bill will not pass," Cecil Roberts, president of the United Mine Workers of America, said in the statement on Monday. "We urge Senator Manchin to revisit his opposition to this legislation and work with his colleagues to pass something that will help keep coal miners working, and have a meaningful impact on our members, their families and their communities."

The 131-year-old UMWA called out several items that it believes are crucial to its members and communities, including extending the fee paid by coal companies to fund benefits received by victims of black lung.

"But now that fee will be cut in half, further shifting the burden of paying these benefits away from the coal companies and on to taxpayers," Roberts said.
Another benefit in Build Back Better cited by the UMWA: tax incentives to encourage manufacturers to build facilities in coalfields, employing thousands of coal miners who are out of work.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/21/business/coal-miners-joe-manchin/index.html
 
THe union saying something does not necessarily have anything to do membership, as surely we all know after watching 50 years of deep union corruption.
 
UMWA statement on Build Back Better legislation


“The bill includes language that would, for the first time, financially penalize outlaw employers that deny workers their rights to form a union on the job. This language is critical to any long-term ability to restore the right to organize in America in the face of ramped-up union-busting by employers. But now there is no path forward for millions of workers to exercise their rights at work.

“For those and other reasons, we are disappointed that the bill will not pass. We urge Senator Manchin to revisit his opposition to this legislation and work with his colleagues to pass something that will help keep coal miners working, and have a meaningful impact on our members, their families, and their communities.

“I also want to reiterate our support for the passage of voting rights legislation as soon as possible, and strongly encourage Senator Manchin and every other Senator to be prepared to do whatever it takes to accomplish that. Anti-democracy legislators and their allies are working every day to roll back the right to vote in America. Failure by the Senate to stand up to that is unacceptable and a dereliction of their duty to the Constitution.”


https://umwa.org/news-media/press/umwa-statement-on-build-back-better-legislation/
 
I am a big fan of unions and co-ops in theory, and have worked as a union man for several years and was a member of a student housing co-op at Michigan State. Also my mom's side of the family were mostly farmers, they were fans of farming co-ops, I have known about co-ops from my earliest days. It was with deep sadness that I watched unions destroy themselves through corruption.
 
This is the same UMW union that during WW 2 was led by John L. Lewis, a Socialist Leftist, who called a strike days after Pearl Harbor to shut down coal production to get higher wages for his members on the basis of war profiteering. He was reviled in the press at the time as a "Benedict Arnold," "Traitor," and "...agent of fascist powers." The UAW has a very long and sordid history of fucking the nation for its own advancement and taking radical Leftist positions in politics.

Ignoring them would be best.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
This is the same UMW union that during WW 2 was led by John L. Lewis, a Socialist Leftist, who called a strike days after Pearl Harbor to shut down coal production to get higher wages for his members on the basis of war profiteering. He was reviled in the press at the time as a "Benedict Arnold," "Traitor," and "...agent of fascist powers." The UAW has a very long and sordid history of fucking the nation for its own advancement and taking radical Leftist positions in politics.

Ignoring them would be best.
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Unions are not coming back, they betrayed their membership too profoundly for too many years.
 
Public sector unions have betrayed the America people for too many years, something that most people have yet to figure out.....the unions conspire with government leaders to keep from the public, from the taxpayers who in theory pay the bills, how much money is being shoved towards labor. It is an active conspiracy.
 
guno said:
Senator Joe Manchin is facing calls from a powerful group close to his heart to reconsider his opposition to the Build Back Better Act: Coal miners.

A day after the West Virginia Democrat appeared to kill Build Back Better, America's largest coal mining union put out a statement lauding the legislation's provisions and pushing Manchin to take a do-over.
"We are disappointed that the bill will not pass," Cecil Roberts, president of the United Mine Workers of America, said in the statement on Monday. "We urge Senator Manchin to revisit his opposition to this legislation and work with his colleagues to pass something that will help keep coal miners working, and have a meaningful impact on our members, their families and their communities."

The 131-year-old UMWA called out several items that it believes are crucial to its members and communities, including extending the fee paid by coal companies to fund benefits received by victims of black lung.

"But now that fee will be cut in half, further shifting the burden of paying these benefits away from the coal companies and on to taxpayers," Roberts said.
Another benefit in Build Back Better cited by the UMWA: tax incentives to encourage manufacturers to build facilities in coalfields, employing thousands of coal miners who are out of work.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/21/business/coal-miners-joe-manchin/index.html
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Good for Manchin. Representing himself and harming his state.
 
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