Ron Johnson tells Wisconsin worker not to worry about losing jobs to South Carolina

[AZProgressive]

A union worker pressed Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) on Wednesday about his refusal to push a local defense contractor to keep jobs in Wisconsin. Johnson argued that if a major Wisconsin business sends 1,000 jobs to South Carolina, it will be good for the Badger State.

In recent weeks, Johnson has been under fire for comments suggesting that Wisconsin already has plenty of jobs and refusing to urge Oshkosh Defense — a manufacturing company based in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, that is owned by one of Johnson's biggest campaign funders — to build postal vehicles in the state.

The company, which received a massive contract last year to build the United States Postal Service's next generation of delivery vehicles, announced last June that it would create a new facility in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and would hire "over 1,000 local team members" there to manufacture the fleet.

Members of the United Automobile Workers union at the company have been pushing for the Oshkosh Defense to instead build the vehicles in Wisconsin.

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[Blue Owl]

1. Next Ron will inject 1,000 Wisconsinites with poison, and tell them it's good for the state