Ohio Workers Slam Moreno For Killing Ohio Jobs After Reporting Revealed He Lied About Selling Chinese-Made Cars

Ohio Workers Slam Moreno For Killing Ohio Jobs After Reporting Revealed He Lied About Selling Chinese-Made Cars

April 17, 2024

Former Lordstown Employee Mary Ola Stemple: "Moreno's Business Decisions Hurt Mahoning Valley Workers And Families, And He Has Proved He Will Not Fight For Us"

Columbus, OH - After recent reporting revealed that "shady car salesman" Bernie Moreno sold the Chinese-made Buick Envision for years and lied about it, Ohio workers are saying that Moreno's "business decisions hurt Mahoning Valley workers and families" and "[took] jobs away from Americans." In Youngstown yesterday, Ohio workers said "Moreno does not care about anyone besides himself" and they "can't trust him."

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Tribune Chronicle: Labor leaders blast Moreno
David Skolnick
April 17, 2024

• Local labor leaders, who are backing U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown's reelection campaign, criticized Bernie Moreno, his Republican challenger, for selling the China-made Buick Envision at a dealership he owned.

• "Bernie Moreno is a shady car salesman, that's what he is," said Jose Arroyo, vice president of the Mahoning-Trumbull AFL-CIO Labor Council and staff representative for the United Steelworkers union. "Sometimes they are what we think they are."

• Mary Ola Stemple, UAW Local 1112's administrative assistant and a former Lordstown GM employee,said: "Moreno's business decisions hurt Mahoning Valley workers and families, and he has proved he will not fight for us."

• Those speaking at the event say Brown, a Democrat seeking his fourth six-year term in the Senate in the Nov. 5 election, has been a longtime friend of labor and the Mahoning Valley while Moreno, who emerged from a three-man Republican primary for the party's nomination, can't be trusted.

• Jim Devlin, UAW Local 1112's vice president and a former Lordstown GM worker, said the Envision "takes jobs away from Americans. We protect ourselves and buy American."

• He added about Moreno: "When you lie about things, I can't trust him."

• Moreno's various auto dealerships also sold numerous foreign luxury cars, including Rolls-Royce, Maserati, Porsche and Aston Martin.

• Darwin Cooper, UAW Local 1112 president and Lordstown GM retiree, said he was angry about Moreno settling several wage theft lawsuits after a Massachusetts jury ordered him to pay more than $400,000 to two former employees for failing to pay overtime in violation of that state's labor laws. Moreno also faced discrimination lawsuits in Cleveland that were settled out of court.

• "We don't need a crook, we need an honest politician," Cooper said.

• Arroyo said of Moreno: "To sell Chinese cars and mistreat your employees and lie about it on the campaign, you can't position yourself as a buy-American first, put-Ohio-workers first (candidate) when your history says different."

Spectrum News: Union workers criticize U.S. Senate candidate Bernie Moreno
Cassidy Wilson
April 17, 2024

• Some union workers are criticizing U.S. Senate candidate Bernie Moreno, aweek after a Spectrum News report showed he sold cars that were made in China, despite telling voters multiple times that he would not.

• Union workers say they cannot trust Moreno.

• The controversy stems from the Buick Envision, a Chinese-made car that Moreno said he told GM he wouldn't sell when he owned a dealership in Beachwood.

• "He lied about selling foreign cars, well Chinese cars," said Jose Arroyo, Vice President of Mahoning/Trumbull County AFL-CIO. "Once again, if you do it, that's your business, but you don't go and lie to the American people, not lie to Ohioans or lie to people in the valley about your business records."

Mahoning Matters: Mahoning, Trumbull union members discuss Bernie Moreno's anti-worker allegations
Kelcey Norris
April 16, 2024

• Union officials shared reports that Moreno owned a Buick GMC dealership in Beachwood and told voters he'd "refused to sell a Buick SUV model made in China, the Envision," according to Spectrum News. However, a Facebook post made in 2019 revealed that the Chinese-made vehicle had been sold for years at the Beachwood dealership.

• Reports from Business Insider detailed anti-worker allegations against Moreno in court.

• "Bernie Moreno has shown Ohio workers over and over that he does not care about anyone besides himself," said Arroyo. "He lied to us about selling cars made in China at the expense of Ohio workers and lied to us about not paying his employees the overtime wages they earned. It is clear that Bernie Moreno is not on our side and that we can't trust him."

• "I know what it means to stand up for Ohio workers. Bernie Moreno is not standing up for people like me, he is too busy putting himself and his profits first," said Stemple. "Moreno's business decisions hurt Mahoning Valley workers and families, and he has proved he will not fight for us."

• "I know that Ohioans need a Senator who will fight to keep our jobs here - not one who made his fortune selling cars manufactured in China, because decisions like that led to Lordstown closing and Ohio jobs being shipped overseas," said Devlin.

Spectrum News: Ohio Workers Say They Can't Trust Bernie Moreno

Spectrum News: "Members of the UAW and AFL-CIO along with labor advocates gathered near Youngstown, collectively,to say that they don't trust Moreno…The Envision is made in China and Moreno owned a car dealership in Beachwood. Moreno told GM at that time that he would not sell those vehicles, butSpectrum News found testimonials on his website from customers who bought the vehicle from him."

Jose Arroyo, Mahoning-Trumbull AFL-CIO Central Labor Council Vice President: "He lied about selling…Chinese-cars…You don't go and lie to the American people, not lie to Ohioans, lie to people in the Valley about your business record."

WFMJ: Moreno Lied About Selling Chinese-Made Cars

WFMJ: "Recent comments from Moreno have made headlines, claiming that when he owned a Buick GMC dealership in Beachwood, Ohio he refused to sell a Buick SUV model made in China, known as the Envision. The UAW says despite Moreno making the claim [he never sold Buick Envisions], those vehicles were still sold on his lot."

Jim Devlin, UAW Local 1112 Vice President: "It [selling the Chinese-made cars] still has a lasting impact, and [Moreno] lied, he didn't sell them. When you lie to me,that tells me I can't trust you."

SEE ALSO: 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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