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Don’t Fear Summer Lee. Fear the Devil’s Bargain Labor Leaders Are Willing to Make Opposing Her | gadflyonthewallblog

Don’t Fear Summer Lee. Fear the Devil’s Bargain Labor Leaders Are Willing to Make Opposing Her | gadflyonthewallblog

Don’t Fear Summer Lee. Fear the Devil’s Bargain Labor Leaders Are Willing to Make Opposing Her

Cancer or unemployment.
That’s the choice Pennsylvanians are being asked to make in 2020.
Do we allow hydraulic fracking to continue to destroy our environment and increase our risk of cancers and other debilitating illnesses?
Or do we clean things up and risk losing jobs?
Some labor leaders seem willing to chose the former on behalf of their constituencies.
That’s why the Pittsburgh-based Allegheny-Fayette Central Labor Council (PA AFL-CIO) voted to oppose the re-election of State Representative Summer Lee, the first black woman elected to the State House from the western part of the Commonwealth.
She chooses life.
And that might put some people out of work.
It’s a sad commentary on the state of the labor movement that union bosses are CONTINUE READING: Don’t Fear Summer Lee. Fear the Devil’s Bargain Labor Leaders Are Willing to Make Opposing Her | gadflyonthewallblog