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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCarrier to lay off hundreds more workers - despite cash deal with Trump to save jobs
BRAD REED
09 NOV 2017 AT 08:01 ET
President Donald Trump last year struck a deal with the Carrier Corporation last year that was supposed to save American manufacturing jobs at the company and prevent it from moving them overseas.
Since then, however, Carrier has laid off hundreds of employees and Fox News reports that the company is planning to lay off hundreds more workers early next year.
Specifically, Carrier says it plans to lay off 215 more workers this coming January, just months after it laid off more than 300 employees earlier this year. The deal that the company struck with Trump gave it $7 million to keep some jobs in the United States, although it still is moving many of the jobs at its Indiana plant down to Mexico anyway.
Although Carrier workers were initially jubilant about the deal to save their jobs, many have grown disillusioned as theyve seen their colleagues laid off regardless of the incentives the company had to keep its production in the United States.
-snip- (a quote from a former employee, dated July 2017, Trump blew smoke up our asses.)
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https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/carrier-to-lay-off-hundreds-more-workers-despite-cash-deal-with-trump-to-save-jobs/
Faux pas
(14,681 posts)art of the deal maker huh?
SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)can negotiate like that! He alone can add good paying jobs to the .............Mexican workforce. People actually believed that jackass. Of course if you ask Trump, he'll tell you that he's added more jobs to the U.S. economy than the last 4 previous Presidents combined. He's an economic whirlwind. Just ask him!
Faux pas
(14,681 posts)of the country longer than expected, I kinda love the thought of him being some other country's problem.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)#2 It was all a Pence deal, Indiana people are the ones that got fucked, they are stuck with the bill
#3 Carrier execs should be arrested and all assets should be forfeit
corps want to be treated like persons so lets start
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)That really sucks.
I mean, I know it was Comrade Casino, the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief, who lied to the workers at Carrier. But in general republicans are consistently lying to American workers. republicans need to stop lying.
If republican can't muster the honor to speak truth to American workers, then they should just STFU.
Wounded Bear
(58,662 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Has been their operating procedure for years, and people accept that, so they continue on.
mdbl
(4,973 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Doitnow
(1,103 posts)SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)stand up and call him on his lies, it's all forgotten. Democrats and the media can report on Trump's abject failure to do anything about American companies outsourcing jobs, but his "base" won't believe a thing they hear. Until it happens to THEM! But Trump will always blame it on "obstructionist Democrats" - even though the GOP is in total control of Congress - and of course Trump's "secret weapon", 'blame it on Hillary' and the base falls right back in line.
Progressive dog
(6,904 posts)Justice
(7,188 posts)Freethinker65
(10,023 posts)The deal was never about jobs nor workers. It worked perfectly as planned.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,492 posts)They know people have short memories and Fox and talk radio will cover for the lies between elections.
And, would anyone like to wager on who Carrier will support and fund in the next election?
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)of course!!
tonyt53
(5,737 posts)Motley13
(3,867 posts)and the state got screwed
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,476 posts)Those who are offended are urged not to click.
More layoffs planned at Carrier plant Trump promised to save
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,492 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,476 posts)DonViejo
(60,536 posts)Not a reputable mainstream news site. I debated whether to put the link to the Fox article in the OP and decided DU'ers could decide for themselves if they wanted to go into that swamp
mdbl
(4,973 posts)the comments from normal people outnumbered the kool-aid drinkers.
Vinca
(50,276 posts)In the end they're getting screwed anyway.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)SweetieD
(1,660 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)to American workers
extvbroadcaster
(343 posts)Trump, walking through the carrier plant, acting like a tough guy that just saved jobs. Yep, he was going to show those management folks they can't ship jobs out of the country - they had to deal with him! But like always, it was a big show and nothing more. Trump did not care in the least about the workers, he was just there for the TV coverage and once the lights were off he went on to his next con. Any CEO anywhere knows they can outsmart Trump, because in the end all he cares about is himself and his grifter family. And people voted for him? Now they can't admit they were conned.
maxrandb
(15,332 posts)And you acted like it was a rainbow sherbet enema.
I used to have pity for folks that got conned, now I just say the words of your supreme leader...Go Fuck Yourselves
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)He truly has the reverse Midas touch.
oasis
(49,389 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,117 posts)Squinch
(50,954 posts)Bengus81
(6,931 posts)They used Trump and then RIPPED off Indiana for all the CASH they could get. This is EXACTLY why the union boss was calling Trump a LIAR way back then.
FakeNoose
(32,641 posts)Every manufacturing owner in the USA dreams of having nothing but robots in their plants. They'd be so happy to lay everybody off if they had enough specialized robots to do the job. If that's not possible their second dream is to build plants in 3rd world countries that are filled with cheap, disposable people who don't have unions and don't demand raises and benefits.
These are the 2 pipe dreams that drive American manufacturing today. Anybody who works in industry should know this and be ready to change fields when the layoffs get to your level. I'm retired now but I worked in printing for pretty much my whole career. The printing industry (mostly small local business owners) has been devastated by the 2 trends I've stated above.
It's going to get worse - way worse.
treestar
(82,383 posts)Donald should know that. Oh wait, he's not a really successful businessman. Or he'd know that.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)Maybe next time, try to recognize the con man before you vote for him. Hint: He's the one making impossible promises.
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)Tarheel_Dem
(31,234 posts)IronLionZion
(45,450 posts)And after Trump has tried so hard to create so many jobs. Oh well, he'll bring back the coal mines and lots of manufacturing jobs.