Something missing from Peduto’s appeal to work together is he isn’t really pressuring fossil-fuel/trades laborers to adapt, he’s pressuring environmentalists Meanwhile this trade union endorsed GOP Governor in 2014, backed E-verify last year, and has scores of pro-Trump membershttps://twitter.com/billpeduto/status/1234132903833018368 …
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Replying to @RyanDeto
How would you like someone with a fossil-fuels related job to “adapt “?
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Replying to @brotheroneill
Like these unions could support plans to help maintain similar jobs, but in other cleaner industries, or use poltical power to get more state and federal funding to create jobs rebuilding PGH’s old infrastructure.
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Replying to @RyanDeto @brotheroneill
I've changed industries four times in my adult life and freelance as a "slush fund" for unemployment. That type of flexibility required constant technical re-training and putting off parenthood until age 37. This is always easier said than done. Casualties are inevitable
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Replying to @MoustacheClubUS @brotheroneill
My story is similar, a lot of millenials is. I was a dog walker for 4 years, then freelance writing, worked in a library. I get why trades push to ensure stable leadership, but to find common ground with environmentalists doesn’t seem possible without adaption on both sides
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Replying to @RyanDeto @brotheroneill
I think they will ultimately have to elect one or the other. Most mid-30s people with significant financial obligations aren't going to make comebacks of any sort. Governments have to make these decisions among different interest groups, but there will be casualties
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This is what happened in most other phased-industries. The displaced workers became the grist for books by the likes of Susan Faludi and Barbara Ehrenreich. There were surely some success stories, but that requires initiative beyond what we can expect of most people
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Replying to @MoustacheClubUS @brotheroneill
Just interesting bc journos are a group of workers in brutal transition, and others. But all our poltical & labor will seems focused on trades & fossil fuel workers, at least in PGH. You’re right there will always be casualties, but it’s a 3rd rail to apply that logic to trades
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They are paid more, and pay more to their union lobbying groups, which of course lobby to protect their narrow interests that sometimes aren’t in the broader interest. Journalists organized in bits and pieces and the work is easy to divide and conquer in the 1099 marketplace
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