AFL-CIO on wrong side...again!

Once again, the AFL-CIO sells their soul and the environment for a handful of jobs and support the dirtiest energy [according to the Boston Globe report below]!

This is what they're supporting --

Tar Sands are exempt from the cleanup costs because of a loophole in the law and there have already been massive spills the MainStream Media has failed to report.

Secretary of State John Kerry under siege from all sides as he faces Keystone pipeline decision

Environmentalists, unions try to sway Keystone decision

For example, while environmentalists’ opposition is a given, trade unions, another Democratic constituency, mostly support it for the construction jobs the pipeline would bring.

 

“It’s going to put thousands of our members back to work who need the work,” said Tom Owens, spokesman for the building and construction trades department of the AFL-CIO.

Environmentalists are not buying such a tradeoff. Michael Brune, Sierra Club executive director, said Kerry is in a far different position than when he was a senator making speeches or seeking votes.

 

Bill McKibben, a leading environmentalist who remembers seeing Kerry protest the Vietnam War in Lexington, Mass., said he has asked to meet with him about the pipeline without success.

“If he and Obama block it, they’ll have a legacy, and a bargaining chip to use with the rest of the world — the first world leaders to stop a big project because it was bad for the climate,” McKibben said. “If they cave to the fossil fuel industry, then they lose their credibility on this issue, with environmentalists but also I fear with the rest of the world.”

 

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2013/05/27/secretary-state-john-kerry-under-siege-from-all-sides-faces-keystone-pipeline-decision/ex776EFrjPkUGWokHFlTKL/story.html