Trade unions threaten to withhold support for politicians opposing data center projects, warning that blocking the projects endangers building-related jobs
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Wall Street Journal: Trade unions threaten to withhold support for politicians opposing data center projects, warning that blocking the projects endangers building-related jobs  —  Trade unions threaten to withhold support for politicians, joining the building backlash  —  Much of the public outcry …

    • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Randal: All those innocent contractors hired to do a job were killed- casualties of a war they had nothing to do with. (notices Dante’s confusion) All right, look-you’re a roofer, and some juicy government contract comes your way; you got the wife and kids and the two-story in suburbia-this is a government contract, which means all sorts of benefits. All of a sudden these left-wing militants blast you with lasers and wipe out everyone within a three-mile radius. You didn’t ask for that. You have no personal politics. You’re just trying to scrape out a living.