Merck’s Ken Frazier resigned from Trump’s manufacturing council after the President’s tepid response to violence in Charlottesville.
Merck (mrk) CEO Ken Frazier resigned this morning from President Trump’s American Manufacturing Council, a group of business leaders tapped to advise the president on “ how best to promote job growth and get Americans back to work again.”
Frazier’s decision to step down from the council came after President Trump failed to immediately condemn head-on the white supremacists whose rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend led to violence —including the brutal death of a 32-year-old counter-protester.
“America’s leaders must honor our fundamental values, ” said Frazier said in a statement, “by clearly rejecting expressions of hatred, bigotry and group supremacy, which run counter to the American ideal that all people are created equal.”
Fortune reached out to all of the other sitting CEOs on the council as well as the presidents of the AFL-CIO and Alliance of American Manufacturing, asking for a response to the weekend’s events and whether they planned to remain a member of the group. The following are the answers we have received so far. They should be attributed to the company or company spokesperson unless otherwise indicated. We’ll continue to update as we hear back. So far no other council members have said they will resign.
Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO:
Denise Morrison, Campbell Soup (cpb) :
Michael Dell, Dell:
Andrew Liveris, Dow Chemical (dow) :
Bill Brown, Harris Corp. (hrs) :
Scott Paul, Alliance for American Manufacturing:
Mark Sutton, International Paper (ip) :
Marillyn Hewson, Lockheed Martin (lmt) :
John Ferriola, Nucor:
Jeff Fettig, Whirlpool (whr) :
Sitting CEOs who have not responded to Fortune: 3M’s Inge Thulin, Boeing’s Dennis Muilenburg, Corning’s Wendell Weeks, Dana’s Jim Kamsickas, Intel’s Brian Krzanich, Johnson & Johnson’s Alex Gorsky, Newell Brands’ Michael Polk, Timken’s Rich Kyle, Under Armour’s Kevin Plank, and United Technologies’ Greg Hayes .
Sy Mukherjee, Phil Wahba, Valentina Zarya, and Claire Zillman contributed to this report.
