 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." He tweeted a photo of a meeting he had about Carrier with Jones and Local 1999 members, calling them "hardworking." 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." 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!" — 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 said later in an interview with MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell that callers had been asking those kinds of questions all day. 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. 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. 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. Trump tweeted again, an hour later, saying the union needs to "spend more time working." 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." Spend more time working-less time talking. 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. 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.
– 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.