Carrier sets course for Mexico as it announces the firing of 600+ employees – PB/TK
‘Trump doesn’t care about workers’: Carrier employees react to announcement that 632 jobs are moving to Mexico – By Arun Gupta / May 22 0217
In a letter released today, the Carrier corporation announced it was firing 632 workers from its factory in Indianapolis and moving those jobs to Monterrey, Mexico, by the end of 2017.
The company, which makes heating and air conditioning units, became the posterchild of offshoring when during the 2016 presidential campaign a video went viral of management announcing to angry workers that the entire plant was being shut down and 1,400 jobs were being eliminated.
Donald Trump leapt on the issue and hammered Hillary Clinton for supporting free-trade deals like NAFTA that by 2004 led to the net loss of 1 million U.S.-based jobs.
Trump vowed to save all the jobs at Carrier, as well as at another Indianapolis factory, Rexnord, that announced last year that it was also moving 300 jobs to Monterrey. Bashing Carrier helped propel Trump to an upset victory.
Continue to rawstory.com article: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/trump-doesnt-care-about-workers-carrier-employees-react-to-announcement-that-632-jobs-are-moving-to-mexico/
