The Carrier Plant That Donald Trump ‘Saved’ Is Cutting 300 Jobs At Christmas Time
Remember that Carrier plan Donald Trump Saved?
Before his inauguration, Donald Trump made a big show of saying he saved many jobs at a Carrier plant in Indiana. It turned out that Trump didn’t so much save jobs as he just got his incoming Vice President Mike Pence, who was then the governor of Indiana, to use millions of dollars of Indiana taxpayer money to bribe Carrier to keep some jobs from going to Mexico.
Now we learn that the same plant that Donald Trump claimed to save is planning to send about 300 jobs to Mexico this Christmas.
Trump’s original claim was that he saved 1,100 jobs when in fact the number was closer to 800.
CNN reports that, “In a formal notice to the state of Indiana, the company detailed its plans to eliminate 338 jobs at the plant on July 20, four supervisor jobs in October and a final 290 jobs on Dec. 22. The job cuts are not a surprise. Even back when the company announced it would keep the furnace plant open, it disclosed plans to move some of the work there making fan coils to Mexico to take advantage of the lower labor costs.”
The episode is another example of Donald Trump proving that he is more concerned with photo ops than actually doing the hard work of economic development and job creation. It was reported at the time that very few jobs were actually saved and that many more would eventually be lost but since then Donald Trump has moved on from his photo opportunity.
And as president, we’ve seen absolutely no effort on Trump’s part to create or save jobs, in the Rust Belt or anywhere besides Washington DC’s lobbyist circles.
