Union hopes common sense prevails on wind
Letter to the Editor, Ocean City Today Dispatch
Teamsters Joint Council 62 consists of more than 10,000 hard working men and women throughout Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia. The Joint Council is the umbrella organization comprised of 3 different Local Unions who are employed in just about every craft and field imaginable.
At the Teamsters, we believe our strength comes through our diversity. We are quite proud of our record of inclusion and we work hard every day to make our communities a better place to reside and call home.
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The local power structure seems so hell-bent on fighting wind that I fear they may be straying from their fiduciary obligations to taxpayers, and their lack of willingness to communicate just appears to be without common sense.
The state of Maryland is in a deep financial pinch, and good jobs are a benefit to all. The wind project will provide several hundred decent paying union jobs that we need. It is disheartening to learn that Worcester County has spent over $200,000 on this fight, and Ocean City has dropped another $400,000 and neither of these amounts include legal fees.