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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 ::
Captain America by Josh Coles
United Brotherhood of Carpenters General President Douglas McCarron is recklessly jeopardizing thousands of Canadian carpenters' jobs by supporting anti-Canadian US government policies.
Last year, McCarron announced his support for a 19.3 per cent countervailing duty on Canadian softwood lumber imports, a move that led to several mill closures and unemployment for thousands of Canadian workers. Within the BC Carpenters Union, members at Abeda Wood Products of Kelowna lost their jobs when the mill declared bankruptcy, saying that it could not afford the new provisional tariffs.
Now, McCarron has set his sights on Canadian jobs in the oil and gas industry.
At a meeting last month, US President George Bush publicly enlisted McCarron's support to pressure Democrat Party allies in the US Senate who oppose a plan to drill for oil and gas in Alaska?s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). It is McCarron's task to convince Democrats they should support drilling in the wildlife sanctuary because it creates American jobs.------------------------------------------- posted 11:18 AM :: reference link ::
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