Trump's Carrier deal is not living up to the hype jobs still going to Mexico

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More than 600 employees at a Carrier plant in Indianapolis are bracing for layoffs beginning next month, despite being told by President Trump that nearly all the jobs at the plant had been saved. The deal, announced with great fanfare before Trump took office, was billed not only as a heroic move to keep jobs from going to Mexico but also as a seismic shift in the economic development landscape.

Nearly seven months later the deal has not worked out quite as originally advertised, and the landscape has barely budged.

"The jobs are still leaving," said Robert James, president of United Steelworkers Local 1999. "Nothing has stopped."

In fact, after the layoffs are complete later this year, a few hundred union jobs will remain at the plant. But that is far different from what then-President-elect Trump said just three weeks after the election.

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[Kolesar]

1. The union rep was giving Trump a lot of crap on NPR/ATC this evening

I thought his name was Chuck Jones.

[Initech]

2. The art of the deal - he looks good on paper, everyone else gets screwed.

[LSFL]

3. there is alot of HVAC equipment assembled in Mexico.

It has greatly reduced prices and made it possible for millions more households to afford central air. This has led to a boom in sales and installations that has created many jobs. Most contractors in know are starved for labor and have to turn down jobs.

[Blue_true]

4. While you are right on the service and installation end.

That doesn't help the people in Indiana that will lose jobs. This is really a tough one, cheaper AC equipment allows more families to own it and require more service and installation jobs, but that comes at the expense of US manufacturing.