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More than 1,600 factory workers are being fired after Trump said hed save their jobs heres what they have to sayARUN GUPTA
18 JAN 2017 AT 05:59 ET
INDIANAPOLIS, IndianaDragging on a cigarette as he sits in the hall of United Steelworkers Local 1999, Robert James says, Trump stood on stage and lied about 1,100 jobs being saved at Carrier in Indianapolis.
James, 57, is the local vice president and a forklift driver whos worked for 18 years at the Indiana-based factory that manufactures furnaces for homes. In February 2016 Carrier told more than 2,000 workers at two factories in the Hoosier State they were going to be fired and production would shift to Monterrey, Mexico. After a video of the workers being fired went viral, Trump made Carrier a poster-child of offshoring during the presidential campaign. Following his victory, Trump turned the screws on Carrier to keep jobs in the United States.
That enabled Trump to sweep into Indianapolis on December 1 as a job-saving hero. He announced before a packed house of employees and news media that more than 1,100 jobs would stay in the Carrier plant.
But the numbers Trump announced dont add up. When James and other union leaders met with the company right before Trump went on stage, they were told 730 union jobs would be saved at the Indianapolis plant―nearly 400 less than Trump announced. Trump was apparently including 350 engineering and administrative employees, but they were never leaving. That meant 550 workers would lose their jobs in Indianapolis as well as 738 workers at Huntington, which would shut down entirely.
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More than 1,600 factory workers are being fired after Trump said he'd save their jobs ... (Original Post)
DonViejo
Jan 2017
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WhiteTara
(29,713 posts)1. And they got huge tax credits for the lie
and the rest will go soon there after. So long suckers!
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)2. How many of those 1100 voted for Orange Julius?
Omaha Steve
(99,632 posts)3. K&R!
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