That- like every other bit of his bullshit you stupidly swallowed- was a lie…
Trump said he would save jobs at Carrier. The layoffs start July 20.
Carrier, the company President Trump pledged to keep on American soil, informed the state of Indiana this week that it will soon begin cutting 632 workers from an Indianapolis factory. The manufacturing jobs will move to Monterrey, Mexico, where the minimum wage is $3.90 per day.That was never supposed to happen, according to Trump’s campaign promises. He told Indiana residents at a rally last year there was a “100 percent chance” he would save the jobs at the heating and air-conditioning manufacturer.
About 1,400 positions were on the chopping block, per company estimates. Over the past year, Trump has claimed he could maintain at least 1,100 of those jobs in the United States. But on Monday, the company gave official notice to Indiana officials that it would start laying off workers at the factory on July 20 and keep slashing staff until approximately 800 factory employees remain.“This action follows a thorough evaluation of our manufacturing operations,” wrote Steven Morris, a Carrier manager in Indianapolis, in a memo Indiana’s Department of Workforce Development received Monday,“and is intended to address the challenges the business faces in a rapidly changing industry.”
The dismissals, he added, are “expected to be permanent.”
Trump’s saga with Carrier began last spring, when he declared to an Indianapolis crowd that he would stop the company from uprooting in search of cheaper labor.
“Here’s what’s going to happen,” Trump said at the rally. “They’re going to call me, and they are going to say, ‘Mr. President, Carrier has decided to stay in Indiana.’”
He kept going. “One hundred percent,” Trump said. “It’s not like we have an 80 percent chance of keeping them or a 95 percent. 100 percent.”
After the election, Trump took credit for rescuing the Carrier jobs, tweeting on Thanksgiving that he had called the company’s leadership to cut a deal.
United Technologies, Carrier’s parent company, agreed to spare some of the positions in exchange for $ 7 million in state tax credits. (If the company outsourced any of those jobs over the next 10 years, it would have to pay back the money, according to the Indiana Economic Development Corp.)A celebratory Trump visited the factory in December and announced that, thanks to his negotiating, more than 1,100 of the jobs would stay in the heartland.
“Carrier stepped it up, and now they’re keeping over 1,100 people,” Trump told an audience of cheering factory workers.
He said those numbers could go even higher, noting that United Technologies had agreed to invest roughly $16 million into updating the plant.
“And by the way, that number is going to go up substantially as they expand this area, this plant,” Trump said. “The 1,100 is going to be a minimum number.”
Chuck Jones, president of the United Steelworkers Local 1999, which represents Carrier employees in Indianapolis, provided further evidence that Trump had inflated the number of jobs that would remain in Indianapolis. Only 800 Carrier employees would be able to keep their jobs — 770 factory workers plus 30 or so more employees, counting supervisors, according to the union count.
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Jones told The Washington Post days later that Trump had “lied his a– off.” He suspected the then-president-elect was including in his count design and engineering jobs that were never going to leave. Trump responded on Twitter by saying Jones had done a “terrible job” as union president.The full extent of the layoffs emerged Monday with Carrier’s announcement of 632 job losses.
And those tens of thousands of coal jobs he claims to have created? They NEVER EXISTED, and NEVER WILL exist:
Trump again claimed he has reversed the trend of coal mining job losses, and misleadingly pointed to the opening of a new coal mine in Western Pennsylvania as evidence that his policies have led to a resurgence in coal mining. Neither of those is true.
Trump, June 21: “And we’ve ended the war on clean, beautiful coal. And we’re putting our miners back to work. In fact, you read about it, last week a brand new coal mine just opened in the state of Pennsylvania, first time in decades, decades. We’ve reversed – and 33,000 mining jobs have been added since my inauguration.”
In fact, there has been an increase of about 1,000 coal mining jobs since January, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. For some perspective, there has been a total loss of nearly 40,000 coal mining jobs over the last five years.
https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-06-28/navajo-power-plant-likely-close-despite-trumps-promises-save-coal
“The Trump administration has not lifted a finger for us, and I don’t believe that he will,” Begaye said.
The coal-fired power plant outside of Page, Arizona, is one of the biggest in the country, and an economic backbone of the Navajo reservation.
In February, its operators announced they wanted to close the plant in 2019, a quarter-century earlier than expected.
This news landed like a ton of bricks in Window Rock, the capital of the Navajo Nation.
“This thing just was dropped on us,” said Begaye. “There was no preparation, no warning.”
Fees from the power plant and the nearby mine that supplies its coal make up roughly a third of the Nation’s operating budget each year, Begaye said.
So, he wanted to save the plant. And he turned to a man he saw as a natural ally, newly inaugurated President Trump, who campaigned on promises to bring back coal and return power to people outside Washington.
http://wjla.com/news/nation-world/carrier-ford-and-boeing-plan-layoffs-moves-overseas
Throughout Trump’s campaign, U.S. automakers were a regular target for attack for outsourcing production and jobs to Mexico. Shortly after taking office, Trump fired a warning shot at General Motors threatening tariffs on the company’s Mexican-made cars. The threat appeared to be successful, when only hours later Ford announced it was canceling plans to build a $1.6 billion plant in Mexico for its smaller model cars. Instead the company said it would invest in its Michigan operations.
Later, Trump would claim credit for encouraging the auto-giant to come back to to the United States.
But on Tuesday, Ford announced that the plant slated for Mexico would be opened in China. The new plant will build the compact Focus model, which Ford currently builds in Michigan and China.
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That first bit is important for every Trump supporter to read
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Was it too subtle?
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Real businessmen don't save jobs, or create them.
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Was it too subtle?
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Presidents don't boss companies around.