NEW YORK (AP) — A local union president slammed by Donald Trump on Twitter says he won’t stop saying the president-elect is inflating the number of jobs being saved in a deal with Carrier Corp. to stop the closing of an Indianapolis factory.
United Steelworkers Local 1999 President Chuck Jones says he finds Trump’s barbs amusing and that won’t back off despite harassing phone calls since Trump criticized him on Twitter Wednesday night.
Jones tells The Associated Press he’s grateful Trump intervened to stop about 800 jobs from being outsourced to Mexico. But Jones says Trump gave workers false hope by saying 1,100 jobs were being saved. That figure includes positions which the company had always said would remain in Indianapolis.
Trump tweeted that Jones “has done a terrible job representing workers.”
