Monday, May 19, 2014

North Dakota has a faux job boom. The oil coming out of North Dakota is with complete disregard to other industries.

Fracking (click here) has done some incredible things for North Dakota: It has the fastest-growing economy and lowest unemployment in the nation, and it is second only to Texas in churning out oil. But as with any gold rush, the boom comes with a human cost for those involved—illness, injury, and fatalities. (For a firsthand view of conditions in North Dakota's fracking fields, watch the video above, which we produced in 2012.)...

North Dakota is out of control and costing other industries in the country their incomes and will ultimately cause unemployment, including the car industry.

Our national infrastructure has served the country well until North Dakota has caused huge problems including an excessive amount of oil in the market and on the rails.

If the rest of the nation was being served by the railroads the way they have always been served by the railroads, North Dakota's oil job boom would be a joke.

Gasoline at the pump is as high as it has ever been. The North Dakota oil boom has done nothing to improve the cost at the pump.

OSHA is not doing it's job. Why?

This is a perfect opportunity to organize around working conditions.

North Dakota is out of control and causing hardship to families as well as other industries in the nation. Whey is this going to stop?