Ohio Auto Workers Call Out Moreno for Lying About Selling Chinese-Made Envision & Contributing to Job Loss, Plant Closures
May 28, 2024
Ohio Auto Workers to Moreno: “Lying Doesn’t Change The Truth — You Sold Those Cars And Put Your Own Profits Before Us And Contributed To Ohio Losing Jobs And Our Plants Closing.”
Columbus, OH – Auto workers from across Ohio wrote to Bernie Moreno last week, calling him out for “lying” about selling the Chinese-made Buick Envision and “put[ting] [his] profits before us and contribut[ing] to Ohio losing jobs and our plants closing.” The letter from auto workers follows reporting that revealed Moreno lied about selling the Chinese-made Buick Envision. Since the report was released, workers from across Ohio are saying they “cannot trust Moreno” because he “sold out American workers” and contributed to “Ohio jobs being shipped overseas.”
Lying about selling the Chinese-made Envision is one lie in a “series of inconsistencies” that are “dogg[ing]” Moreno on the campaign trail – including Moreno lying about his phony “riches-to-rags-to-riches,” story, lying about his family “escap[ing]” socialism, lying about his business origin story, and lying about shutting down Cleveland State’s Confucius Institute.
Norwalk Reflector: Union leaders say Moreno lying
Matt Westerhold
May 27, 2024
- Leaders from 14 United Auto Workers union locals in Ohio on Friday denounced Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bernie Moreno, contending he put profits before people when he was an auto dealer and lied about it.
- At issue are claims Moreno has made on the campaign trail that when he was an auto dealer he refused to sell Chinese-made vehicles because that hurt union families in the state.
- Those statements earlier this year weren’t the whole story, however, because according to union officials Moreno not only sold the Envision, he hyped it in promotions and advertising campaigns without ever telling consumers it was not made in America, according to the union presidents.
- “Lying doesn’t change the truth — you sold those cars and put your own profits before us and contributed to Ohio losing jobs and our plants closing,” the letter from the union leaders states. “It’s the kind of thing Ohio workers have seen too many times before, when corporate bosses are too willing to sell out the people who make their companies great in the first place.”
- The letter cites “plants like Lordstown,” that close and cause jobs to leave the state.
- “We’ve seen it time and time again,” the letter states. “The last thing we need is another corporate suit in Washington voting against our interests.”
- “Bernie Moreno repeatedly claimed on the campaign trail that he didn’t sell the Chinese-made Envision, but he sold the cars for years, even though it hurt Ohio workers,” an AFL-CIO news release states.
- The union presidents told Moreno he would never get union support.
- The letter is signed by union presidents at UAW Locals in Toledo, Troy, Defiance, Streetsboro, Parma, Cleveland, Warren, Lima, Delaware, Ashtabula, Amherst, Willoughby, Coshocton and Zanesville.
- U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat seeking his fourth six-year term in the Senate in the Nov. 5 election, has long been a friend of labor. He’s championed dignity of work during his Senate career and has fought unfair trade practices that give Chinese steel companies unfair advantages in the marketplace.
SEE ALSO: ICYMI: Labor Leaders Hit GOP Senate Candidate Bernie Moreno Over China-Made Vehicle Sales [Toledo Blade]; Ohio Workers Slam Moreno For Killing Ohio Jobs After Reporting Revealed He Lied About Selling Chinese-Made Cars; QUICK CLIPS: Ohio Workers Slam Bernie Moreno For Lying About Selling Chinese-Made Cars; Bernie Moreno Again Caught Lying, This Time About Selling Chinese-Made Buick Envision
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