Carrier union boss gets threatening calls after Trump’s tweets

President-elect Donald Trump is feuding with an IN union leader after Chuck Jones, president of United Steelworkers Local 1999 IN Indianapolis, said Mr. Trump lied for saying he helped save 1,100 jobs.

First, rather than taxing companies who send jobs away, which was what he had promised to do, Trump gave the company a tax break to keep only a fraction of those jobs in Indiana.

Trump went after Local 1999 President Chuck Jones after his criticism of the Carrier deal, for not saving as many jobs as they thought.

Meanwhile, military contracts were a big part of the negotiations between Carrier parent company United Technologies Corp. and Trump, said Jones, and “it wasn’t $7 million over 10 years anted up by the taxpayers in IN “that decided the jobs issue”.

Jones said more than 1,100 jobs would remain in Indiana.

The head of the local steelworkers union says insults from President-elect Donald Trump won’t get him to back down. According to Jones, Trump took credit for saving 350 jobs that weren’t in jeopardy of leaving the U.S. He also said Trump failed to mention that almost 550 jobs would still be sent to Monterrey, Mexico.

“We couldn’t match that unless we were willing to cut wages to $5 an hour and cut all benefits”, Jones said.

In March, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence – before he was chosen to join Trump’s presidential ticket – met with Jones to help save the Carrier jobs.

“People saying, “Keep an eye on your children.’ ‘I know where you live, I know what automobile you drive”, Jones said. “Reduce dues”, Jones’ phone lit up.

He told the cable news outlet he wasn’t sure how the callers found his number.

But Jones maintains that Trump should have been upfront with the alleged 800 job number.

“I’ve negotiated a lot of contracts over 30 years”, he continued.

“Spend more time working-less time talking”, he continued.

“(Trump) needs to worry about getting his Cabinet filled and leave me the hell alone”, Jones told The Post.

“People got false hopes they were going to be able to provide for their families”, he said.

“I was right about calling him out”. The troubling phone calls featured one person asking Chuck what kind of vehicle Jones drives, whereas another person threatened Chuck with the words that claimed, “We’re coming for you”. “I can deal with people that make stupid statements and move on”.

One union boss, Chuck Jones, chose to speak up, rather than let Trump get away with inflating the numbers. But Mr. Jones says that the president-elect lied about the number of jobs that were actually saved by the deal.

The Trump transition team did not respond to a request for comment about the jobs still moving to Mexico.