AFL-CIO: enemy of caribou

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Aug 7 10:14:11 PDT 2001


Max Sawicky wrote:


>We have to recognize that supporting enviro measures that
>destroy jobs and provide a "just transition" is asking to
>get kicked in the teeth.

Drilling in Alaska is about new jobs, not destroying old ones. And just because transitional assistance has sucked in the past doesn't mean that fighting for the real thing isn't a good idea.

Protect the worker not the job, I say.

Doug



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