Joe Biden has a message for the fossil-fuel workers he admits he'll be putting out of work: I have an even better job for you.
The Democratic nominee understands this risks alienating blue-collar energy workers in states like Pennsylvania and Ohio.
So Mr. Biden is pitching his plan as an opportunity to create "10 million good-paying, middle-class, union jobs." He'd have taxpayers spend $1.7 trillion in part to "Train all of America's workforce to tap into the growing clean-energy economy," including energy workers who will install "Millions of new solar panels and tens of thousands of wind turbines." Oil riggers, you will be pleased to know, will seamlessly transition to solar technicians.
In July the NABTU-whose affiliates include the Teamsters and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers-released two surveys of workers and statistics that analyze jobs across the energy economy.
One survey conducted interviews, focus groups and an online survey with some 1,700 union and non-union workers in energy jobs.
Workers also liked that there was "Better project variety, skill development and project consistency." The report emphasized that "Skilled trade jobs are not highly interchangeable between industries."
Now Mr. Biden wants to extinguish those jobs on a bet on solar panels and wind turbines.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/about-joes-energy-jobs-11598310676
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