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The diminishing private sector portion of the union movement is turning on their Democrat coalition allies, environmentalists, waking up to the fact that well-paying jobs are created by permitting fracking. Already hip to the notion that the Keystone Pipeline would employ a lot of union members, unions in Pennsylvania in particular now realixe there is a jobs bonanza for them in domestic energy production.
Kevin Begos of AP reports:
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.