Reagan broke the back of the Middle Class by breaking the back of Unions in the 1980s. It looks like Trump is going to try to kill any unions left standing and take us all the way back to where we were in the 1920s just before the Great Depression. Hoover was like this too and caused the Stock market crash of 1929, the Depression that followed and the wars World War II and the Cold War that resulted from the stock market Crash before the Great Depression. So Trump is just following in the footsteps of Hoover and Reagan at this point. It might be World War III soon. (within 10 years) the way things are presently going. History might repeat itself in some ways now.
Without Unions there is no way to protect jobs here in the U.S. that I know of. Without Unions Computers will only continue to take the jobs of 40% of people within 25 years and 80% of jobs by 2100 in relation to now. Without unions to protect the working man they all will just become slaves and lose their jobs to robots and that's all she wrote.
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Donald Trump Attacks Carrier Union Leader Chuck Jones on Twitter
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President-elect
Donald Trump on Wednesday blasted a steelworkers union leader who
denounced him for exaggerating the number of jobs saved at a Carrier
Corp.
Trump's Carrier jobs triumph look
Donald Trump Attacks Carrier Union Leader Chuck Jones on Twitter
Head of United Steelworkers local called out Trump for claiming 1,000-plus jobs saved, said company confirmed it would retain only 730 union jobs and 70 nonunion
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Chuck Jones, president of United Steelworkers Local 1999, at Peppy Grill on May 3 in Indianapolis, Ind.
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On Twitter, Mr. Trump said Chuck Jones, who heads the United Steelworkers local at the Carrier plant, had done “a terrible job representing workers. No wonder companies flee country!”
In an interview Wednesday night, Mr. Jones acknowledged he has received threats since the Trump tweets, but said they “don’t bother me a whole hell of a lot.”
The union leader said Mr. Trump had overstated the job savings of the deal between Carrier and the Indiana governor’s office still run by Vice President-elect Mike Pence. Mr. Jones said Mr. Trump raised the hopes of some workers who will nonetheless see their jobs shipped to Mexico.
The spat is a stark reversal from a week ago when Mr. Trump flew to Indianapolis to tour the factory and show that he had made good on a campaign promise to stop United Technologies Corp. from moving the Carrier plant to Mexico.
At that event, Mr. Trump said the deal between Carrier and the state would keep more than 1,000 jobs in Indiana. The company confirmed it would retain only 730 union jobs and another 70 nonunion positions at Carrier’s gas furnace and fan coil plant in Indianapolis, Mr. Jones said. Some 550 of his members’ jobs would be sent to Mexico.
Roughly 300 jobs touted as part of Mr. Trump’s deal to save jobs in Indiana had never been slated to move to Mexico. The company will receive $7 million in tax breaks over 10 years as part of the agreement.
Mr. Jones called Mr. Trump’s claim of more than 1,000 jobs preserved in Indiana “an out-and-out falsehood.”
“I’m not naive enough to think he’s going to be a friend to the working class people,” Mr. Jones said, while adding that he was “grateful” that some jobs were preserved.
In a second tweet Wednesday night, Mr. Trump said the union should reduce membership dues and “spend more time working-less time talking.”
“If United Steelworkers 1999 was any good, they would have kept those jobs in Indiana,” Mr. Trump wrote.
The Carrier fight highlights a split between union leaders like Mr. Jones—who has previously opposed politicians like Messrs. Trump and Pence—and some union workers in industrial states who backed the Trump campaign.
Officials from Local 1999 have previously said members were excited at Trump’s promise to intervene in the plant closing. But saving all the jobs at stake, let alone repeating the effort with other companies, was beyond Mr. Trump, Mr. Jones said.
“Our people in that facility got full of hopes they were going to be able to have a job,” Mr. Jones said.
Write to Ted Mann at ted.mann@wsj.com
