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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsManchin's Choice on Build Back Better: Mine Workers or Mine Owners
Senator Joe Manchin III is caught between the mine workers union, which supports President Bidens social policy and climate bill, and mine owners in his state who oppose it.https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/10/us/politics/manchin-coal-miners.html
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WASHINGTON For years, burly men in camouflage hunting jackets have been a constant presence in the Capitol Hill office of Senator Joe Manchin III, their United Mine Workers logos giving away their mission: to lobby not only for the interests of coal, but also on more personal matters such as pensions, health care and funding to address black lung disease.
So when the miners union and the West Virginia A.F.L.-C.I.O. came out last month with statements pleading for passage of President Bidens Build Back Better Act just hours after Mr. Manchin, Democrat of West Virginia, said he was a no the Capitol took notice.
With the miners now officially on the opposite side of the mine owners, it signalled the escalation of a behind-the-scenes struggle centered in Mr. Manchins home state to sway the balking senator, whose scepticism about his partys marquee domestic policy measure has emerged as a potentially fatal impediment to its enactment.
While most of the attention to the fate of the social safety net and climate change bill has fixed on ideological divisions among Democrats over its largest provisions and overall cost, the battle underway over parochial issues in Mr. Manchins state could ultimately matter more than the public pleas of liberal groups and relentless bargaining by Democratic leaders.
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Manchin's Choice on Build Back Better: Mine Workers or Mine Owners (Original Post)
Celerity
Jan 2022
OP
The fact that it all comes down to the interests of ANYONE in the coal industry, an industry
Scrivener7
Jan 2022
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Scrivener7
(50,954 posts)1. The fact that it all comes down to the interests of ANYONE in the coal industry, an industry
that employs fewer people than Wendy's restaurants, is enraging.
Celerity
(43,406 posts)3. In 2020, 11,418 people were working in West Virginia's coal industry in total.
Joinfortmill
(14,428 posts)2. Hope he does the right thing.
NoMoreRepugs
(9,435 posts)4. ManChin doing the "right thing" is a near impossibility in my opinion.
Freddie
(9,267 posts)5. Don't most of the mine owners live out of state?
Im sure their $$$ is far more important than their votes.