Chuck Jones, the president of the local chapter of the United Steelworkers union that represents Carrier employees in Indianapolis, told The Post on Tuesday that the president-elect exaggerated the number of jobs he claims to have saved. It turns out that 550 of the union's members will lose their livelihoods, after all, because Trump was taking credit for keeping 350 engineering positions in the United States that were never going to leave. Yet the company will still collect millions in lucrative tax breaks.
Twenty minutes after his appearance, the man who will be the 45th president of the United States began attacking him on Twitter:
Chuck Jones, who is President of United Steelworkers 1999, has done a terrible job representing workers. No wonder companies flee country!
If United Steelworkers 1999 was any good, they would have kept those jobs in Indiana. Spend more time working-less time talking. Reduce dues
Half an hour after Trump’s first tweet, the union leader's phone began to ring and kept ringing.“Nothing that says they’re gonna kill me, but, you know, ‘You better keep your eye on your kids. We know what car you drive.’ Things along those lines,” he explained.
“My first thought was, ‘Well, that’s not very nice.’ Then, 'Well, I might not sleep much tonight,’” he told our Danielle Paquette in between the threatening calls to his flip phone.