“We desperately need those jobs, and if I was to deliver a message to him, it would be this: Mr. President, put yourself in those shoes, of those 42,000 people.”
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As the State Department prepares to issue its final Environmental Impact Statement on Keystone XL, labor and union groups from across the country – groups that overwhelmingly supported President Obama in both presidential elections – are rallying to tell him to approve Keystone XL.
Today Oil Sands Fact Check is releasing the first video in a two part series, which puts the spotlight on the most recent pro-Keystone XL union events that took place in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Missouri, and Washington DC.
In the video, Abe Amoros of Laborers’ International Union of North America stresses just how far reaching the jobs would be, touching so many employment sectors:
“For laborers, for mechanics, for plumbers, for electricians, for operating engineers, for safety engineers, we’re talking about rebuilding the middle class folks.”
Meanwhile, Patrick Gleason of the Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council speaks about the sheer number of jobs:
“We desperately need those jobs and if I was to deliver a message him it would be this: Mr. President, put yourself in those shoes, of those 42,000 people.”
Will President Obama put himself in the shoes of those 42,000 people who need those jobs or side with a billionaire activist who has pumped millions of dollars into campaigns to stop them?
Quotes from the Video
Marty McClimens, UA Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 562: “Their pipeline is going to put good jobs out there that pay good union wages and it’s up to every union member to support them and give them everything they got and make sure that this job goes through.”
Abe Amoros, Laborers’ International Union of North America: “Just this past May, during the National Building Trades Conference, our international president, Terry O’ Sullivan, held a massive rally one block—earshot—of the White House where he said, ‘build the pipeline now.’ For laborers, for mechanics, for plumbers, for electricians, for operating engineers, for safety engineers, we’re talking about rebuilding the middle class folks.”
House Democratic Leader Tim Greimel (D-MI): “This project is a common sense project that will ensure that we have affordable energy produced right here in North America. It will help ensure that our country has energy independence and it will make sure that it’s transported in the safest possible way.”
Patrick Gleason, Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council: “We desperately need those jobs and if I was to deliver a message him it would be this: Mr. President, put yourself in those shoes, of those 42,000 people.”
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