Trump has used this tactic of lashing out at local union leaders before when blue-collar jobs that he promised to save end up going away.
President Trump waves as he and first lady Melania Trump leave St. John's Episcopal Church in Washington on March 17. . By Heather Long Heather Long Economics correspondent Email Bio Follow March 18 at 6:00 AM President Trump blamed a small-town union leader Sunday for not doing enough to save a General Motors factory in Lordstown, Ohio, that shuttered on March 6, causing about 5,400 job losses in a struggling part of the country.
Trump has used this tactic of lashing out at a local union leader before when blue-collar jobs that he promised to save end up going away. Trump went after a steel union president in Indianapolis when the Carrier plant there went forward with job losses after Trump tried to intervene unsuccessfully. Trumbull County, where Lordstown is located, voted for Trump in 2016 after voting Democratic in every election since the 1970s.“The president was saying don’t sell your house because all of these factories are coming back and we’re going to protect American jobs. We’ve seen everything but that here,” Green said in a recent interview.
GM wouldn’t comment directly on the conversation between Barra and the president, but the company put out a statement saying the plant’s future “would be resolved between GM and the UAW.” Selling the plant to another owner probably would mean union workers would lose their seniority and not be paid as well as they had been.For union workers in Lordstown, it’s hard to hear accusations that they didn’t do enough to keep the plant open.
Like Green, Brown told The Washington Post in a recent interview that he had tried to contact Trump numerous times in an effort to save the Lordstown jobs but never heard back.
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