By MAGGIE HABERMAN
12/8/2016
Trump clashes with union local president.
The president-elect of the United States picked a fight on Wednesday with the president of a union local in Indiana in yet another sign that Donald J. Trump just has a hard time letting things go.
Chuck Jones, the president of United Steelworkers Local 1999, told The Washington Post on Tuesday that the president-elect had “lied his ass off” when he claimed he had saved 1,100 jobs from going to Mexico at the Carrier furnace plant in Indianapolis. That was pretty much backed up by the chief executive of United Technologies, the parent company of Carrier, who said on CNBC that he would automate the plant and lay off many of the workers anyway.
But it was Mr. Jones’s appearance on CNN on Wednesday that got Mr. Trump’s goat.
“What nobody’s mentioning is 550 people are losing their jobs,” Mr. Jones said, adding that 700 other jobs will be going to Mexico from a different Indiana plant.
That, apparently, was too much for the man who will soon lead the free world.
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We support and side with Chuck Jones, the president of United Steelworkers Local 1999. For calling out the lie.
As usual, his supporters - who claimed ‘1000 plus union workers their jobs being saved’ are liars - ‘show me your friends and I’ll tell you who you are’.
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