Teamsters and Alaskan NWR Oil Drilling

[Thomas Seay]

Well, West Virginia is a perfect case-study for the
bastards. West Virginia used to be the most unionized
state in the nation, and the UMWA rank-and-file was
the most militant.  Now not that I think the
Democratic Party is worth a damn, but symbolically it
stands for Labor, and there was a time in which there
was really no reason of even having a Republican
primary in southern West Virginia, because it was only
a question of which Democratic candidate would win. 
Bush won West Virginia in the last election.

Now with the decline of the mining industry, there is
50 or 60 percent unemployment in some parts of the
state.  A lot of people are understably willing to do
anything,  because of the dire situation.  In my
hometown of Welch, they were going to build a really
toxic trash dump...a lot of people were against it,
but a long of people supported it because it would
create about 30 jobs!!!!

Damn the teamsters for pitting workers against the
environmentalists!

Thomas

--- Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net> wrote:
> By LEIGH STROPE, AP Labor Writer 
> 
> WASHINGTON (AP) - The Teamsters will start airing
> radio ads this week in favor of drilling in the
> Arctic
> National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. The campaign
> aligns the union with the Bush administration and
> sets
> it apart from much of organized labor.
> 
> The 60-second spots will air on radio stations in
> Pennsylvania and West Virginia this week as the
> House
> prepares to vote on the issue and other energy
> proposals. The ads will cost at least $20,000, said
> Teamsters spokesman Rob Black.
> 
> Rest of story:
> 
>
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010730/us/teamsters_energy_1.html
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