No guarantee Biden’s clean energy plan will create well-paying union jobs
New York — Working as a construction supervisor one winter, Steven Marones would wake up at 4am and drive two hours to a Wisconsin cornfield. There, he and the rest of the non-union crew spent their day assembling a sprawling network of steel I-beams for solar panels to be mounted on. Threading bolts while wearing thick gloves often proved impossible, so when the temperature dropped as low as -25°C, his bare hands would stiffen painfully.
While his body battled the elements, Marones’s mind was beset by a constant worry: that his $25 hourly wage just wasn’t enough to pay his bills. “I was always stressed with the day-to-day,” says the 30-year-old father of four. “I just couldn’t focus on the future.”..
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