Trump Criticizes Union Leader Critical Of Carrier Deal
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- President-elect Donald Trump is fighting back against claims his efforts to save jobs at a Carrier plant in Indiana weren't as successful as he claimed.
Trump announced a deal last week at the plant that would save jobs from being outsourced to Mexico.
"Actually the number is over 1,100 people, which is so great," Trump said last Thursday.
But Chuck Jones, the head of the union at the plant, says hundreds of jobs are still being sent to Mexico.
"If you're dealing with people's livelihoods, you sure in the world ought to know what the numbers are," Jones told CNN.
Trump responded on Twitter saying Jones "has done a horrible job representing workers."
And he went on to say, "If United Steelworkers 1999 was any good, they would have kept those jobs in Indiana."
The Twitter spat has overshadowed the announcement of Trump's pick to head up the Environmental Protection Agency.
Trump tapped Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head of the EPA.
Pruitt describes himself on LinkedIn as "a leading advocate against the EPA's activist agenda."
"I think the greatest impediment we have in the country today as far as economic growth, it's the not tax policy, it's regulatory policy," Pruitt said back in January.
The Trump transition team also announced Linda McMahon, the co-founder of the wrestling empire WWE, to be the head of the Small Business Administration.
