Union boss says Trump ‘overreacted’

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The leader of the union that organizes an Indiana Carrier plant shrugged off angry tweets sent by President-elect Trump, who criticized the union leader by name Wednesday night.

Chuck Jones, the president of United Steelworkers 1999, called out Trump for misleading workers about the amount of jobs that would be kept in Indiana by his deal with Carrier. While Trump initially touted about 1,100 jobs staying at the plant, the number is actually closer to 700.

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