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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHe got up there and lied his a off': Carrier union leader on Trumps big deal
The Secret Service agents told the Carrier workers to stay put, so Chuck Jones sat in the factory conference room for nearly three hours, waiting for president-elect Donald Trump. Hed grown used to this suspense.
Seven months earlier, at a campaign rally in Indianapolis, Trump had pledged to save the plants jobs, most of which were slated to move to Mexico. Then the businessman won the election, and the 1,350 workers whose paychecks were on the line wondered if hed keep his promise.
Jones, president of the United Steelworkers 1999, which represents Carrier employees, felt optimistic when Trump announced last week that hed reached a deal with the factorys parent company, United Technologies, to preserve 1,100 of the Indianapolis jobs u ntil the union leader heard from Carrier that only 730 of the production jobs would stay and 550 of his members would lose their livelihoods, after all.
At the Dec. 1 meeting, where Trump was supposed to lay out the details, Jones hoped he would explain himself.
But he got up there, Jones said Tuesday, and, for whatever reason, lied his a-- off.
In front of a crowd of about 150 supervisors, production workers and reporters, Trump praised Carrier and its parent company, United Technologies. "Now theyre keeping actually the numbers over 1,100 people, he said, which is so great.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/%e2%80%98he-got-up-there-and-lied-his-a%e2%80%93-off-carrier-union-leader-on-trump%e2%80%99s-big-deal/ar-AAldQLA?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=edgsp
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)wcmagumba
(2,883 posts)voted for him...they could hear him telling one lie after another for over a year about every imaginable thing and yet...
Baitball Blogger
(46,700 posts)But, will they even care once it becomes obvious, even to them?
spanone
(135,824 posts)tanyev
(42,551 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,339 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Because it made him sound good, made you feel good, made him look good in the papers, and the truth didn't do any of that. So, he lied. Get used to it, because you're in for four years of that.
Omaha Steve
(99,584 posts)OS
UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)People believe what he says because they want to believe it.
Typical Con man!
BobTheSubgenius
(11,563 posts)...on a new Alice Through The Looking Glass sequel.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)All the money comes from Indiana
cstanleytech
(26,283 posts)Missn-Hitch
(1,383 posts)cstanleytech
(26,283 posts)Bush (who himself made Nixon look good) look good but the Republican leadership decided to show us all that they could one up even Bush and now because of that they own Trumps every mistake and blunder like if they did it themselves and the Democrats need to hang him around the neck of every Republican in office for the next 20+ years.
IronLionZion
(45,427 posts)who's he going to screw next?
Cha
(297,154 posts)And, the stupid m$m enabled. fuck 'em all.
TomCADem
(17,387 posts)You know this is a set-up to attack unions and minimum wage laws. Who needs them when you have the great leader?
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-blasts-carrier-union-leader-hes-done-a-terrible-job/ar-AAlhK3y
Donald Trump blasted the Carrier union's president Wednesday after he said the president-elect "lied his ass off" about terms of the deal to keep Carrier manufacturing jobs in the United States.
"Chuck Jones, who is President of United Steelworkers 1999, has done a terrible job representing workers," the president-elect tweeted Wednesday. "No wonder companies flee country!"
In a subsequent tweet, the president-elect slammed the union for not being able to keep the jobs in Indiana initially.
"If United Steelworkers 1999 was any good, they would have kept those jobs in Indiana. Spend more time working-less time talking. Reduce dues," Trump tweeted.
Missn-Hitch
(1,383 posts)"If United Steelworkers 1999 was any good, they would have kept those jobs in Indiana."
Lawrence asks him, "Would those same people in the room during the campaign had heard those words, would they have been cheering as loudly as they were then?"
Hahahahaha. Of course they would have. The truest thing this orange menace has said is, "I could go out on 5th Ave and shoot someone in the head and I would not lose any votes."
Damn. Dark times ahead.