CLOSE An Indianapolis union leader is engaged in a war of words with Donald Trump over the Carrier Corp. deal. And now Chuck Jones says he is being threatened by supporters of the president-elect. (Dwight Adams/IndyStar) Wochit 
 
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 An Indianapolis union leader said he's been receiving threats for his outspoken criticism of President-elect Donald Trump, who took to Twitter on Wednesday night to call him out. 
 
 Trump twice tweeted about United Steelworkers Local 1999 and its president, Chuck Jones, saying Jones has done a "terrible job" representing workers and that the union should "spend more time working." 
 
 Chuck Jones, who is President of United Steelworkers 1999, has done a terrible job representing workers. No wonder companies flee country! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 8, 2016 
 
 Local 1999 represents workers from Carrier Corp. and Rexnord Corp., both companies with Indianapolis locations that have announced plans to close Indianapolis plants and move those operations to Mexico. 
 
 Carrier announced those plans — then affecting more than 1,000 union workers — in February, while Rexnord made its announcement affecting 300 in October. 
 
 Jones previously criticized Trump's campaign promises to keep Carrier and the affected jobs in Indianapolis and continued to be outspoken with his criticisms of the deal, telling The Washington Post earlier this week that Trump "lied his a-- off." 
 
 Jones told IndyStar on Wednesday night that he had been getting threats since The Post story was published Tuesday from people he said were Trump supporters. 
 
 "Calling me names, wanting to know if I have children," he said. "I better watch out for myself, and they know what kind of car I drive, that I better watch out for my kids." 
 
 Jones said later in an interview with MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell that callers had been asking those kinds of questions all day. 
 
 "Nothing that says they’re gonna kill me, but, you know, you better keep your eye on your kids," he told O'Donnell. "We know what car you drive. Things along those lines." 
 
 CLOSE A union leader at the Indianapolis Carrier plant says Donald Trump lied about the number of jobs the company will keep in the U.S. Video provided by Newsy Newslook 
 
 Jones told IndyStar that the first tweet was evidence to him that he was doing his job. 
 
 "First of all, that means I’m doing, and we’re doing, as labor representatives, the best we can for the people to give them a living wage and good benefits," Jones said. "No, what he says, that don’t bother me." 
 
 Trump visited Carrier's west-side facility last week after it was announced that the incoming administration had reached a deal with the furnace manufacturer, keeping the Indianapolis plant open and saving more than 1,000 jobs. 
 
 As part of the deal, the Indiana Economic Development Corp. offered Carrier up to $5 million in conditional tax credits, plus up to $1 million in training grants to support workforce development and another $1 million in tax credits if the company continues to invest in the Indianapolis location. 
 
 Jones said he took issue with Trump trying to take credit for saving 1,100 union jobs at Carrier, while the number of jobs retained was closer to 730. Altogether, about 600 layoffs are expected in mid-2017. 
 
 After layoffs, Carrier's Indianapolis plant will have about 800 manufacturing workers and 300 engineering employees. 
 
 "What he did was he gave false hope for three days to people that worked in that facility that they might not lose their job," Jones said. 
 
 Trump tweeted again, an hour later, saying the union needs to "spend more time working." 
 
 If United Steelworkers 1999 was any good, they would have kept those jobs in Indiana. Spend more time working-less time talking. Reduce dues — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 8, 2016 
 
 Jones brushed off the comment, saying Trump was again wrong in his claims. 
 
 "We offered up $23 million per year in concessions," he said. But the company wanted to save $65 million, so it turned down that offer, Jones said. 
 
 "He don’t know, once again, what in the hell he’s talking about," Jones said. 
 
 Jones reiterated that sentiment on MSNBC, saying if Trump had blamed the loss of the jobs on the union and its workers during the campaign, as he appeared to be doing in his second tweet, he would have lost some votes. 
 
 “I’m going to assume that some of them would have thought twice before they would have voted for Mr. Trump," Jones told O'Donnell. "The whole thing is ridiculous." 
 
 He added that in order for Carrier to have saved that $65 million, workers would have to be paid $5 an hour, below minimum wage, and would go without benefits. 
 
 But until Trump acknowledges that he wasn't telling the whole truth, Jones said he's going to keep calling him out on what he says are "falsehoods." 
 
 "I’m not backing up on my position one iota," Jones told O'Donnell. "He’s wrong, and I’m right.” 
 
 If Trump decides he wants to continue his work to save union jobs at Carrier and Rexnord, Jones told IndyStar, he would be open to working with Trump and his team, despite disagreements. 
 
 "When it comes to people's livelihoods, I think everybody has to put everything aside," Jones said. 
 
 Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, now the vice president-elect, tweeted on March 2 that he met with Jones and other union representatives in an effort to keep Carrier jobs. 
 
 IndyStar reporters James Briggs and Tony Cook contributed to this story. 
 
 Call IndyStar reporter Holly Hays at (317) 444-6156. Follow her on Twitter: @hollyvhays. 
 
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 You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history. Learn more ||||| President-elect Donald Trump lashed out Wednesday at a union leader who has criticized Trump's Carrier job deal as a promise "half-way delivered." 
 
 Chuck Jones, president of United Steelworkers Local 1999, has been critical of Trump's claim to have saved 1,100 jobs at the Indianapolis plant since Tuesday. 
 
 But shortly after Jones appeared on CNN's "Erin Burnett Out Front" program Wednesday night, the president-elect appeared to blame union leaders like him for companies leaving the U.S. 
 
 "Chuck Jones, who is President of United Steelworkers 1999, has done a terrible job representing workers. No wonder companies flee country!" Trump wrote. 
 
 He followed up with another attack just over an hour later: "If United Steelworkers 1999 was any good, they would have kept those jobs in Indiana." 
 
 Vice President-elect Mike Pence, who is also the governor of Indiana, gave a very different description of the union back in March. He tweeted a photo of a meeting he had about Carrier with Jones and Local 1999 members, calling them "hardworking." 
 
 Jones has complained that Trump has fallen short of his campaign promise to keep Carrier from moving 1,400 jobs to Mexico. 
 
 Chuck Jones, who is President of United Steelworkers 1999, has done a terrible job representing workers. No wonder companies flee country! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 8, 2016 
 
 If United Steelworkers 1999 was any good, they would have kept those jobs in Indiana. Spend more time working-less time talking. Reduce dues — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 8, 2016 
 
 "You made a promise to keep all these jobs. You half-way delivered," Jones told CNNMoney in an interview earlier Wednesday. "We expect you go back and keep all the jobs." 
 
 Jones added that Trump should also help the 350 workers at an Indianapolis plant owned by another company, Rexnord, which is also slated to move to Mexico. Workers there are also members of USW Local 1999. 
 
 Related: How Donald Trump got Carrier to stay 
 
 "Trump said no companies would be allowed to go to Mexico," Jones said. "There are more than 300 people over there at Rexnord. He needs to deliver for them as well." 
 
 Jones did not get to speak with Trump when the President-elect visited Carrier last week. But he said he was angry when Trump praised Carrier for "keeping 1,100 people" in jobs that won't move to Mexico. The real number is 800. 
 
 To get the higher number, Carrier and Trump are counting 300 administrative and engineering jobs at a different facility in Indianapolis that were never at risk of being shipped to Mexico. 
 
 Related: Trump says he'll punish companies for leaving U.S. 
 
 Carrier is still shifting about 600 jobs building fan coils to Mexico sometime next year. Under the deal with Trump, Carrier only agreed to keep the part of the plant that builds furnaces open, saving the 800 jobs in Indianapolis. 
 
 Carrier confirmed to CNNMoney on Friday that it never planned to move the 300 administrative and engineering positions. 
 
 "He's lying his a-- off," Jones said about Trump's claim of saving 1,100 jobs. "That's not just my feeling. The numbers prove he's lying his a-- off. It's a damn shame when you come in and make a false statements like that." 
 
 Later Wednesday Jones elaborated in an interview with Erin Burnett. 
 
 Jones said many of the workers whose jobs may now be saved are grateful to Trump, but that some workers who are still worried about losing their jobs are angry. 
 
 "We have a lot of our members, when word was coming out... they thought they would have a job. Then they found out Friday, that most likely they weren't," he said. 
 
 Burnett asked if Jones thought Trump should apologize, and he said, "I think he ought to make sure he gets all the facts straight before he starts talking about what he's done." 
 
 "I'm extremely grateful for what he did. There's 800 people who have jobs... It's not all one sided. I just wished it had been handled in more of a professional matter." 
 
 Pres. of United Steelworkers Union on @Carrier deal: "What nobody's mentioning is 550 people are losing their jobs" https://t.co/SxPg1jZHk9 — OutFrontCNN (@OutFrontCNN) December 8, 2016 
 
 The Trump transition team did not respond to a request for comment about the jobs still moving to Mexico. 
 
 Related: 1,000 jobs saved by Trump. Thousands more to go 
 
 Jones said he hopes the company will offer workers the chance to leave voluntarily with the severance package that was previously negotiated -- one week of pay for every year of service. 
 
 Ideally, more senior workers at the plant would take the package and retire, which would save the jobs of younger workers. The plant has a large number of senior employees. 
 
 "For workers who have 40 years in and were getting close to retirement, that 40 weeks pay might look pretty good," Jones said. But severance talks have yet to start.
– In the four weeks he has been president-elect, Donald Trump's tweets have targeted the New York Times, the cast of Hamilton, China, flag-burners, Boeing, and Saturday Night Live, among others—and now it's the turn of Chuck Jones, president of the union that represents Carrier employees in Indianapolis. Jones, "who is President of United Steelworkers 1999, has done a terrible job representing workers," Trump tweeted Wednesday. "No wonder companies flee country!" The tweet came after Jones told CNN and the Washington Post that Trump hadn't kept as many jobs from moving to Mexico as he claimed. Trump deserves credit for saving some jobs, but he "lied his a-- off" when he said 1,100 jobs had been saved, because the real figure is below 800 and hundreds of union members are still being laid off, Jones told the Post. "If United Steelworkers 1999 was any good, they would have kept those jobs in Indiana. Spend more time working-less time talking. Reduce dues," Trump said in another tweet. Jones tells the Indianapolis Star that Trump "doesn't know what in the hell he's talking about," because the company's original offer would have forced employees to work for $5 an hour without benefits. He says he has been receiving threats from Trump supporters. "Calling me names, wanting to know if I have children," he says. "I better watch out for myself, and they know what kind of car I drive, that I better watch out for my kids." But he says he is still open to working with Trump to save jobs. "When it comes to people's livelihoods, I think everybody has to put everything aside," he says.