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Related: About this forumA year ago, Trump promised Carrier workers help. We're still waiting
Retweeted by David Fahrenthold: https://twitter.com/fahrenthold
A year after Trump promised to save jobs at Carrier, workers at the plant are still losing their jobs to offshoring. Chuck Jones, the former president of United Steelworkers 1999, says that workers feel "betrayed".
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A year ago, Trump promised Carrier workers help. Were still waiting.
By Chuck Jones November 29
Chuck Jones was formerly the president of United Steelworkers 1999.
At the Carrier plant on the west side of Indianapolis, were coming up on a bitter anniversary. One year ago this week, President-elect Donald Trump stood before hundreds of cheering workers and declared that he had saved our jobs from moving to Mexico. It was a symbolic moment that cemented Trumps campaign image as a working-class champion a blue-collar billionaire who would stand with workers, not CEOs.
I have been a worker at the Rexnord plant in Indianapolis for 48 years, and president of United Steel Workers Local 1999 for more than 30. As the leader of the union representing the Carrier workers, I was part of the negotiations with the company regarding the coming layoffs when Trump intervened. Standing in front of the president-elect at Carrier during Trumps first victory rally after the 2016 election, I realized that he was delivering a powerful message of hope not only to Carrier workers, but also to all working people in America: You finally have a president who will fight for the interests of ordinary workers, Trump seemed to say.
{Im the union leader Trump attacked. And Im tired of being lied to about our jobs.}
A year later, we feel betrayed. Carrier has announced that more than 600 workers are being laid off, with the last line scheduled to work their final shift right after the holidays.
The workers at Carrier arent the only ones who feel victimized by Trumps false promises. United Technologies, Carriers parent company, is laying off another 700 workers right up the road from the Carrier plant in Huntington. And Rexnord, another plant in Indianapolis, just closed its doors, too. Workers at both plants hoped that Trump would come to the rescue, but he never showed up.
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Chuck Jones was formerly the president of United Steelworkers 1999.
A year ago, Trump promised Carrier workers help. Were still waiting.
By Chuck Jones November 29
Chuck Jones was formerly the president of United Steelworkers 1999.
At the Carrier plant on the west side of Indianapolis, were coming up on a bitter anniversary. One year ago this week, President-elect Donald Trump stood before hundreds of cheering workers and declared that he had saved our jobs from moving to Mexico. It was a symbolic moment that cemented Trumps campaign image as a working-class champion a blue-collar billionaire who would stand with workers, not CEOs.
I have been a worker at the Rexnord plant in Indianapolis for 48 years, and president of United Steel Workers Local 1999 for more than 30. As the leader of the union representing the Carrier workers, I was part of the negotiations with the company regarding the coming layoffs when Trump intervened. Standing in front of the president-elect at Carrier during Trumps first victory rally after the 2016 election, I realized that he was delivering a powerful message of hope not only to Carrier workers, but also to all working people in America: You finally have a president who will fight for the interests of ordinary workers, Trump seemed to say.
{Im the union leader Trump attacked. And Im tired of being lied to about our jobs.}
A year later, we feel betrayed. Carrier has announced that more than 600 workers are being laid off, with the last line scheduled to work their final shift right after the holidays.
The workers at Carrier arent the only ones who feel victimized by Trumps false promises. United Technologies, Carriers parent company, is laying off another 700 workers right up the road from the Carrier plant in Huntington. And Rexnord, another plant in Indianapolis, just closed its doors, too. Workers at both plants hoped that Trump would come to the rescue, but he never showed up.
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Chuck Jones was formerly the president of United Steelworkers 1999.
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A year ago, Trump promised Carrier workers help. We're still waiting (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Dec 2017
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Kittycow
(2,396 posts)1. Hope those workers..
aren't counting on low taxes and social safety nets as well!
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)2. Trump got his Photo Op.
It is all about Donnie. Please stop watching the shiny object.
procon
(15,805 posts)3. Blinded by Trump's stardom?
Where was his brain while he was starstruck by Trump's skill as a con man? He knew that the GOP has never "stood with workers", but always backed their CEO buddies, and he decided to ignore everything because he really liked the stage show?
Sorry, no sympathies. None.