CFMEU rejects carbon trading job claims

.The Construction,Forestry,Mining and Electrical Union (CFMEU) says the release of figures warning that emissions trading will cost thousands of jobs is part of a scare campaign. The Minerals Council says emissions trading will cost 23,000 jobs in the next decade . Opposition spokesman Andrew Robb says that backs his call for the Government to dump its insistence on the scheme being passed next month. . “The scheme is rushed,the scheme is ill-considered,the scheme takes us too far ahead of the world,”he said. But opposition to the scheme continues to harden [...]