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News comes today that despite President Trumps heroic intervention to save the jobs of manufacturing workers at a Carrier plant in Indiana last winter, theyre basically all losing their jobs anyway.
From CNBC
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.
As the article goes on to explain, the devil turned out to be in the details. Carrier did commit to retaining 1,069 employees at the Indiana plant for a decade. But those arent going to be manufacturing workers. Most of those are engineering and technical positions that were never slated to be laid off anyway. Meanwhile, the money Carrier received in the deal is being invested in automation. So rather than investing in new production and jobs, as Trump promised, the money is going into automation which means replacing humans with jobs with machines.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Form the get go most of us knew this was a Ponzi move. Projections are,20+% manufacturing jobs will be Robot Jobs with in five years.
But Bullshit got the Guy Elected.
Stuart G
(38,403 posts)..So many got conned by this asshole....in so many ways. Too many to list here, so sad..
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Seen this first hand three times in my career.
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)anymore, it's all about "security"
erpowers
(9,350 posts)My question is will he be held accountable. I did not hear anything about this on the news today. It is possible that the lack of coverage is not just due to the healthcare bill being revealed, but because this is a story that has been brewing for a few months.
On another note, the way this deal worked out is more proof that Trump is not a good deal maker. Some might say that should have been obvious from his past business record. It should have been, but he was able to sell himself as a great dealmaker. In this deal Trump and Pence got played. Unless they were always in on the game. Carrier took the millions that were handed to them by Trump and Pence and instead of putting that to keeping human workers, invested the money in automation. So, Indiana taxpayers forked over millions of dollars to make it easier for Carrier to destroy human jobs. If Trump and Pence did not get played by Carrier it seems Indiana taxpayers did get played by the company. They paid good money to get rid of their own jobs.
EthanBlue
(48 posts)I'm sorry its hard for me to be feeling bad for those that voted for this idiot. Look at the trends of industry, I don't care what political affiliation you hold. Just look at the industry and look where things are going. That's your answer. Use some common sense.