Union Workers, Not Donald Trump, Pushed Fiat Chrysler Into Creating 2,000 Jobs

by eNews Park Forest on January 9, 2017

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NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–January 9, 2017

By Laura Clawson

Great news: Fiat Chrysler has announced a $1 billion, 2,000-job investment in plants in Michigan and Ohio. Donald Trump didn’t quite claim credit in his predictable tweet about the news, but Reuters, for instance, reported the story with the headline “Fiat Chrysler ups the ante as automakers respond to Trump.”

Except that’s not what happened at all. In 2015 contract negotiations, the UAW pushed Fiat Chrysler to invest…