The United Mine Workers of America, which bought into the 2016 Donald Trump campaign promise that he would restore all the lost jobs from the coal industry, has now endorsed the “green energy” strategy proposed by the administration of President Joe Biden, NBC News reports.
The UMWA sought promises from the Administration that any programs would provide job training for their members to transition into green energy jobs, a part of the Biden plan from the beginning.
“We’re trying to, first of all, insert ourselves to the extent that we can in this conversation because our people, a lot of coal miners in this country, their families have suffered already some traumatic losses,” UMWA President Cecil Roberts told NBC.