Statement from the Metropolitan Washington Council on President-Elect Trump's attack on union leader Chuck Jones

For immediate release: December 8, 2016 
Contact: Chris Garlock; [email protected]

The attacks on Chuck Jones, president of United Steelworkers Local 1999, must stop immediately. Jones was doing his job defending working men and women and the families that depend on them by speaking out and telling the truth about the deal with Carrier brokered by Donald Trump. To attack Jones and his family is not only beyond the pale but anti-worker and un-American. To speak the truth is a freedom generations of Americans died for, and more than worth defending today and forever. We call on those who cherish that freedom, including those in positions of influence, to join us in standing with Chuck Jones, loudly and publicly.