Union left in dark in shady Carrier deal

The more we learn the worse it gets.

…the more details about Trump’s negotiations with Carrier become public, the more hollow his victory appears. First, various outlets reported that the number of jobs saved was closer to 800 than 1,100. Then, Carrier revealed that Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence — the current governor of Indiana — had purchased the company’s continued presence in the state with more than $7 million in tax breaks. Some “consequences.”

Throughout all of this, the man who claimed to represent Carrier factory workers — Donald Trump — completely ignored the institution that actually represents them: United Steelworkers Local 1999.

The union says it was entirely cut out of negotiations between Trump and Carrier, and only learned the outcome last Thursday, when the president-elect gave his self-congratulatory speech in Indianapolis.

“There was no interaction with the Trump team and the union at any level. The union was left in the dark until the day of the announcement,” Local 1999 union rep Kelly Ray Hugunin told ThinkProgress in an email. “Even then, no interaction with the Trump team.”

As of press time, the transition team has not responded to a request for information on their communications — if any — with the Carrier union.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.