Bernie Sanders challenges Trump over jobs boast: 'What are you going to do?'

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President-elect Donald Trump drew a rebuke from former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Saturday, after attempting to put pressure on another company planning a move from Indiana to Mexico.

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In a post to Twitter on Friday night – shortly after messages defending his phone conversation with the president of Taiwan which prompted a diplomatic complaint from China – Trump said: “Rexnord of Indiana is moving to Mexico and rather viciously firing all of its 300 workers. This is happening all over our country. No more!”

Rexnord, an industrial supplier based in Milwaukee, announced plans in October to move a bearing plant and its 300 jobs from Indianapolis to Mexico, employees told the Indianapolis Star at the time. Company representatives on Saturday did not respond to a request for comment.



“What are you going to do, @realDonaldTrump? Stand up for working people or give the company a massive tax break?” Sanders tweeted.

Sanders supports tougher policies on corporations for outsourcing. During the presidential campaign, Trump said his administration would put a 35% import tariff on goods made by American manufacturers that moved jobs offshore.

He frequently pilloried Carrier for planning to move production to Mexico as he appealed to blue-collar voters in the midwest, including in Indiana, whose governor, Mike Pence, is the vice-president-elect.

It is unclear what steps would have to be taken by federal authorities before Trump could retaliate against individual companies shifting jobs abroad.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/03/bernie-sanders-donald-trump-rexnord-indiana-carrier-plant

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