CLAIM: President Joe Biden’s green jobs agenda “will create millions of good-paying jobs” that “Americans can raise their families on.”
VERDICT: MOSTLY FALSE. Biden’s American Jobs Plan threatens American union jobs and the wages of millions of energy workers, union representatives have repeatedly said.
“The American Jobs Plan will create millions of good-paying jobs — jobs Americans can raise their families on,” Biden said during his address to Congress. “… these are good-paying jobs that can’t be outsourced.”
Despite Biden’s claims, union representatives have repeatedly warned that Biden’s green jobs agenda will cost high-paying middle-class jobs, cut United States wages, and many are concerned that, unlike oil jobs, green jobs can be outsourced to foreign countries.
The Houston Chronicle reported last month:
In addition, clean energy jobs in the United States, such as working on wind turbines or installing solar panels, don’t pay nearly as well as those in the oil and gas industry, where even workers in the lower ranks can earn six-figure salaries. [Emphasis added]
“Someone working in a refinery leaving to go install solar panels, they’re probably going to take a 75 percent cut in pay,” said Rick Levy, president of the Texas AFL-CIO, the state’s largest labor union. “What do we do for the folks that have been powering this country for the last 100 years? How do we shape this new economy so jobs can be sustaining in the same way jobs in the fossil fuel industry have been?” [Emphasis added]
It’s a conundrum plaguing communities from Appalachian coal country to Wyoming’s natural gas fields, and perhaps nowhere more than Houston, which has long reigned as the “energy capital of the world.”
[Emphasis added]
Green jobs, as the Houston Chronicle also noted, can be outsourced to foreign countries, as they do not rely on natural minerals, rocks, and other geological factors that keep many oil and gas jobs in the U.S.
A report in Politico this month acknowledged that Biden’s green jobs agenda will eliminate these high-paying middle-class jobs, often unionized, and union representatives said they have yet to see a plan to get their members in similarly-paid jobs.
Politico reports:
The president’s push to decarbonize the economy will mean eliminating the kind of steady, fixed-location jobs that come with coal mines or fossil-fuel power plants. The Biden plan would require the construction of vast numbers of solar, wind and battery projects, along with potentially new pipelines for carbon dioxide and hydrogen.
But construction jobs are temporary and require mobility, and once those projects are complete, they’ll need few workers to maintain them and keep them operating. [Emphasis added]
“The jobs that he talked about yesterday were construction jobs,” said Phil Smith, a spokesman for the United Mine Workers of America, a day after the Biden speech. “We’re not seeing anything concrete that our members can look at and say, ‘OK, that’s where I’m gonna fit in.’” [Emphasis added]
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All Liberal democrats should get a job in sanitation if they can deal out the amount of trash they can go and clan it all up
And don’t forget the pointlessness of all this pain.
The Australian forestry industry went through a similar enforced green job furphy*.
Loggers were to find jobs in tourism. And that went well…
Which is not to say loggers and their families are stupid necessarily, but a job as an eco tour-leader is not the sort of thing that I could do because I couldn’t bear pointing to logging regrowth and claiming it was untouched wilderness just to make inner-city customers feel good.
Imagine a coal-miner selling domestic solar panels…
That’s much the same scenario. And it isn’t as if there are that many new jobs to go around. The New South Wales Labor Party now considers the State a service economy. Thanks to green attitudes, they’re right.
And, likely, light-less. It was coal that put the ‘light on the hill’ that Labor was supposed to be all about.
falsehood.
Biden said last night that trickle-down economics has never worked. Uh??! It has worked beautifully for more than a century. If he believes this, nothing he’ll ever say makes any sense.
Notice how three of America s worst presidents have all been Democrats Clinton,Obama and Biden