Friday, April 25, 2014

Sometimes even unions can be a little shiortsighted

Fracking Foes Cringe As Unions Back Drilling Boom (Click here to read more)


Kevin Begos
Sunday, April 20, 2014, 3:34 pm
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PITTSBURGH (AP) - After early complaints that out-of-state firms got the most jobs, some local construction trade workers and union members in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia say they're now benefiting in a big way from the Marcellus and Utica Shale oil and gas boom.
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That vocal support from blue-collar workers complicates efforts by environmentalists to limit the drilling process known as fracking.

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