Big labor unions that supported Obamacare are learning the meaning of “you reap what you sow” the hard way. Teamsters, UNITE-HERE, and the United Food and Commercial Workers are among many unions that worked for the passage of Obamacare. But now relations between Big Labor and President Obama have soured – and that’s putting it lightly.
Why are union members so angry?
Obamacare! Obamacare is a threat to union members’ jobs, and it is already endangering generous health care plans that unions have negotiated for their members. Obamacare means higher taxes, onerous regulations, oppressive mandates, and higher health care costs for unions. Consequently, it also means fewer full-time jobs and less hours of work.
But Obamacare isn’t the only leftist policy infuriating unions.
The Washington Free Beacon (WFB) reports that labor groups are also angry about the “administration’s aggressive Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations.”
Indeed, the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) found that America has lost between 13,000 and 17,000 coal jobs due to EPA regulations. Pennsylvania lost and estimated 3,000 coal-related jobs in Obama’s first term.
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