Political Quotes

“This is a statement by Terry O'Sullivan: The Biden Administration's decision to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline permit on day one of his presidency is both insulting and disappointing to the thousands of hard-working LIUNA members who will lose good-paying, middle class family- supporting jobs. By the way, LIUNA is the largest labor union in construction, the largest labor construction union in America--500,000 members. By blocking this 100 percent union project, and pandering to environmental extremists, a thousand union jobs will immediately vanish and 10,000 additional jobs will be foregone. That is day one. This isn't me talking, the Senator from Alaska. This is the head of LIUNA. We support the President's campaign to ``build back better.'' But for union members affected by this decision, there are no renewable energy jobs that come even close to replacing the wages and benefits the Keystone XL project would have provided. Killing good union jobs on day one with nothing to replace them is not building back better. This is, again, Terry O'Sullivan, head of LIUNA.…”