Union president Jones challenges Trump on Carrier

Workers and unions are speaking out against Donald Trump, after the president-elect called out an IN union leader by name on Twitter.

Following Mr Jones’ remarks, Mr Trump took to Twitter to criticise him, saying he had “done a awful job” and that he should “spend more time working” and “less time talking”.

The CNBC report said that automation will allow the Carrier plant to remain competitive with Mexico, where hourly labor costs $3, compared to the $20 employees now earn per hour in Indianapolis. But there are lots of sane, well-educated folks who say they did.

“This guy makes pennies for what he does”, Voorhies said. United Technologies still plans to close a major plant in the state. “We made every attempt in the world to keep these jobs here, and it didn’t work”, he said. But he said he was angry when Trump praised Carrier for “keeping 1,100 people” in jobs that won’t move to Mexico. Altogether, about 600 layoffs are expected in mid-2017.

“What I can’t abide … is a president who misleads workers, who gives them false hope”.

“No wonder companies flee [the] country!” he added.

Chuck Jones, president of Local 1999 of the United Steelworkers union, penned an op-ed in the Washington Post, refusing to be bullied by Trump into backing down.

Carrier is still eliminating 500 factory jobs in Indianapolis and 700 more in Huntington.

Jones was then asked if Trump could really be blamed for the mischaracterization because Carrier’s parent company, United Technologies, provided the 1,100 number used by Trump.

The $50 billion is part of a previously-announced investment by the company, who said previously that it was investing $100 billion in worldwide tech companies, according to the New York Times.

Earlier in the week Mr Trump attacked Boeing, hours after its boss criticised his trade policy, but he denied a link.

“I think it says our president (Trump) is thin-skinned”. “That’s off the table”.

Trump took to social media Wednesday evening to criticize Chuck Jones, a union leader.

Jones called Trump’s reaction “amusing” and said he wasn’t backing off “one iota”.

Jones noted that Trump promised to keep and grow jobs in America.

“Chuck Jones is a man of passion, conviction and integrity who would do anything for his union brothers and sisters”. We know where you live.

That’s the kind of threats a local union official is getting after President-presumed-Elect Donald Trump tweeted something bad about him.

Trump is certainly allowed to have an opinion of Jones, but as the CEO of another company, he isn’t supposed to discuss specifics of the Steelworkers contract, for a simple reason: they’re not his workers.