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16th August 2017, 10:48 AM
Trump shuts down 2 jobs councils amid wave of CEO departureshttp://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/08/16/trump-shuts-down-2-jobs-councils-amid-wave-ceo-departures.html
Published August 16, 2017
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3M CEO resigns from Trump's manufacturing council
President Trump announced Wednesday he is shutting down two jobs councils, amid a wave of resignations by executives in the wake of the president’s response to the violence in Charlottesville.
"Rather than putting pressure on the businesspeople of the Manufacturing Council & Strategy & Policy Forum, I am ending both. Thank you all!" he wrote on Twitter.
The statement came amid multiple reports that the Strategic and Policy Forum, a group of top business leaders, had already agreed to disband.
This is separate from the manufacturing council which has seen multiple resignations since Trump’s weekend comments. Two more business leaders announced their departure from the group on Wednesday, before Trump announced he was ending both councils.
The latest was Campbell Soup Company CEO Denise Morrison.
She said in a statement: "Racism and murder are unequivocally reprehensible and are not morally equivalent to anything else that happened in Charlottesville. I believe the President should have been – and still needs to be – unambiguous on that point. Following yesterday’s remarks from the President, I cannot remain on the Manufacturing Jobs Initiative."
Inge Thulin, CEO of manufacturing giant 3M, also resigned Wednesday from the council.
The statement said he joined the council to advocate policies that align with the company’s values and encourage job growth but, “After careful consideration, I believe the initiative is no longer an effective vehicle for 3M to advance these goals.”
Six others have resigned from the council since Saturday. But Thulin and Morrison were the first to flee since Trump held a defiant press conference Tuesday at Trump Tower defending his original statements on Charlottesville and attacking the “alt-left” for their alleged role in the clashes.
The president said “both sides” share blame, while still condemning neo-Nazis and white supremacists.
The president has criticized those leaving his council as “grandstanders.” Before diving back into the Charlottesville controversy in his remarks Tuesday, Trump said people are quitting the manufacturing board “because they're not taking their job seriously as it pertains to this country.”
“We want jobs, manufacturing in this country. If you look at some of those people that you're talking about, they're outside of the country. They're having a lot of their product made outside,” he said. “Now, I have to tell you, some of the folks that will leave, they're leaving out of embarrassment because they make their products outside.”
Thulin follows Richard Trumka, the president of the AFL-CIO, and another union leader in quitting the council.
Scott Paul of the Alliance for American Manufacturing; Brian Krzanich of Intel; Kenneth Frazier of Merck; and Kevin Plank of Under Armour also announced their departure.
The departures have come amid criticism of the president for not initially and specifically condemning neo-Nazis after a car ran into a crowd of counter-protesters at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., killing one.
Published August 16, 2017
Fox News
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3M CEO resigns from Trump's manufacturing council
President Trump announced Wednesday he is shutting down two jobs councils, amid a wave of resignations by executives in the wake of the president’s response to the violence in Charlottesville.
"Rather than putting pressure on the businesspeople of the Manufacturing Council & Strategy & Policy Forum, I am ending both. Thank you all!" he wrote on Twitter.
The statement came amid multiple reports that the Strategic and Policy Forum, a group of top business leaders, had already agreed to disband.
This is separate from the manufacturing council which has seen multiple resignations since Trump’s weekend comments. Two more business leaders announced their departure from the group on Wednesday, before Trump announced he was ending both councils.
The latest was Campbell Soup Company CEO Denise Morrison.
She said in a statement: "Racism and murder are unequivocally reprehensible and are not morally equivalent to anything else that happened in Charlottesville. I believe the President should have been – and still needs to be – unambiguous on that point. Following yesterday’s remarks from the President, I cannot remain on the Manufacturing Jobs Initiative."
Inge Thulin, CEO of manufacturing giant 3M, also resigned Wednesday from the council.
The statement said he joined the council to advocate policies that align with the company’s values and encourage job growth but, “After careful consideration, I believe the initiative is no longer an effective vehicle for 3M to advance these goals.”
Six others have resigned from the council since Saturday. But Thulin and Morrison were the first to flee since Trump held a defiant press conference Tuesday at Trump Tower defending his original statements on Charlottesville and attacking the “alt-left” for their alleged role in the clashes.
The president said “both sides” share blame, while still condemning neo-Nazis and white supremacists.
The president has criticized those leaving his council as “grandstanders.” Before diving back into the Charlottesville controversy in his remarks Tuesday, Trump said people are quitting the manufacturing board “because they're not taking their job seriously as it pertains to this country.”
“We want jobs, manufacturing in this country. If you look at some of those people that you're talking about, they're outside of the country. They're having a lot of their product made outside,” he said. “Now, I have to tell you, some of the folks that will leave, they're leaving out of embarrassment because they make their products outside.”
Thulin follows Richard Trumka, the president of the AFL-CIO, and another union leader in quitting the council.
Scott Paul of the Alliance for American Manufacturing; Brian Krzanich of Intel; Kenneth Frazier of Merck; and Kevin Plank of Under Armour also announced their departure.
The departures have come amid criticism of the president for not initially and specifically condemning neo-Nazis after a car ran into a crowd of counter-protesters at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., killing one.