by Dramelin 5:00 AM 0 comments

The good news is that the sectors that have made common cause with Mr. Trump represent less than a quarter of all unionized workers. And Mr. Trump?s nominee for the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch, has ruled in favor of employers far more frequently than workers. Moreover, a great many of those jobs would be in the building trades ? jobs for carpenters, ironworkers, welders, pipe fitters ? whose union leaders have been so cozy with Mr. Trump. And it?s worth taking a closer look at the implications of those pipelines, along with the rest of Mr. Trump?s climate-change denying agenda. Instead, they are doing public relations for the mostly temporary jobs Mr. Trump is offering ? those building oil pipelines, weapons, prisons and border walls, while expanding the highway system even as public transit faces drastic cuts.