"Eh....who wants to know, Doc?"
Posted on 12/07/2016 10:39:19 AM PST by Stopthethreat
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. He’d grown used to this suspense.
Seven months earlier, at a campaign rally in Indianapolis, Trump had pledged to save the plant’s 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 he’d keep his promise.
Jones, president of the United Steelworkers 1999, which represents Carrier employees, felt optimistic when Trump announced last week that he’d reached a deal with the factory’s parent company, United Technologies, to preserve 1,100 of the Indianapolis jobs — until 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.”
so this union snowflake is upset his TERMINATION NEGOTIATIONS were not needed?!
He saved 1100 jobs.
If 550 of them weren’t production, then 550 of them were.
And he’s not president yet.
United Technologies may find government contracts harder to win.
The guy is a steel worker.
Present day steel workers are the tattered and disheveled remnants of what were once industrial unions. Today they barely hang on as the tolerated but toothless legacy of what once were. The leaders are loudmouth braggarts that once in a great while get a lick in.
Jones got his marching orders from the Democrats: Fight against this jobs program at all costs!
Union?
Oh, well that explains why they wanted to go to Mexico.
This probably means the union dues are no longer sufficient to support his full time Union position so he will have to return to the work force and do his forty on line like the rest of his union brothers/sisters.
"Eh....who wants to know, Doc?"
Are all union heads losers? Just askin’.
1100-730=370.
Where does 550 come from?
Is Carrier replacing 370 American workers with 550 Mexicans?
So Trump saves 730 out of 1100 jobs, and the union boss goes on a hate-filled, hyperbolic rant about how Trump screwed them. I sure hope those 730 workers throw a good-old fashioned union boot party to show their appreciation for Jones’ apparent attempt to get rid of their jobs.
I wasn’t sure who was being accused of lying, maybe I should have read more of the story. Or we could look for someone missing their butt?
Union bosses have to whore themselves out to the friendliest rat politicians.
Union Members vote like their Union leaders were the college professors that they did not have.
A damn shame.
Trump blasts Carrier union leader: He’s ‘done a terrible job’
thehill.com ^ | 12/7/16 | Rebecca Savransky
Posted on 12/7/2016, 7:01:56 PM by ColdOne
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!”
Chuck Jones, who is President of United Steelworkers 1999, has done a terrible job representing workers. No wonder companies flee country!
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3502591/posts
And what will that advanced technology production equipment do? Automate production and eliminate workers.
The poor Indiana workers can choose their poison - be replaced by a Mexican or a robot.
And what will that advanced technology production equipment do? Automate production and eliminate workers.
The poor Indiana workers can choose their poison - be replaced by a Mexican or a robot.
Sure. How about an interview with the CEO of United Technologies?
GREG HAYES: Right. Well, and again, if you think about what we talked about last week, we're going to make a $16 million investment in that factory in Indianapolis to automate to drive the cost down so that we can continue to be competitive. Now is it as cheap as moving to Mexico with lower cost of labor? No. But we will make that plant competitive just because we'll make the capital investments there.JIM CRAMER: Right.
GREG HAYES: But what that ultimately means is there will be fewer jobs.
And what will that advanced technology production equipment do? Automate production and eliminate workers.
The poor Indiana workers can choose their poison - be replaced by a Mexican or a robot.
So CEO uses the word “ultimately”....
He does not seem to be making statement that even most jobs will be lost to Automation nor is he saying that those jobs lost will be in the near future. From what you said, it sounded rather immediate and all-encompassing.
Would you rather the jobs go to Mexico and the Indiana economy languish? There is the multiplier effect of money spent that stays in the community and state—lost of the entire production line is south of the border.
My hope is that workers will be retrained for new businesses that spring up in Trump economy.
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