 The Metro Washington Council yesterday joined local, state and national labor leaders and their allies across the country in demanding an end to attacks on United Steelworkers (USW) Local 1999 President Chuck Jones (right), who was attacked by President-elect Donald Trump after Jones told The Washington Post that Trump “lied his ass off” when he claimed he had saved 1,100 jobs at the Carrier furnace plant in Indianapolis from going to Mexico. “What nobody’s mentioning is 550 people are losing their jobs,” Jones told CNN, adding that 700 other positions at a different Indiana plant would be moving to Mexico. Working families quickly responded to Trump’s tweets attacking Jones by creating the #ImWithChuck hashtag highlighting the role unions have in fighting for good jobs. “Jones was doing his job defending working men and women and the families that depend on them by speaking out and telling the truth,” said Metro Washington Council president Jackie Jeter. Jones has received death threats since Trump singled him out. “To attack Jones and his family is not just anti-worker, it’s un-American. To speak the truth is a freedom generations of Americans died for, and worth defending today and forever.” Jeter called on those “who cherish that freedom, including those in positions of influence, to join us in standing with Chuck Jones, loudly and publicly.”
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