After the election, during the transition, Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, who was governor of IN at the time, announced a deal IN which the company would keep almost 1,000 jobs at the plant and invest $16 million IN the facility IN exchange for $7 million IN tax breaks over 10 years. The stipulation with the deal is that around only 730 jobs are in the manufacturing field, which was one of the main reasons the president touted the deal as a success. Trump presented this as a watershed victory and went out to the plant to give a celebratory address.
A secondary part of the deal Trump struck with the company called on Carrier to invest $16 million in the in factory.
"That number is going to go up very substantially as they expand this area", he said in December.
While good news came Thursday for hundreds of workers at Carrier's Indianapolis plant, almost 600 workers will still be losing their jobs as Carrier ships them off to Mexico by the end of 2017.
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"The jobs are still leaving", said Robert James, president of United Steelworkers Local 1999 this week. The rest of the jobs, CNBC writes, "are engineering and technical jobs that were never scheduled to be cut".
Trump said in December that the plant's workers would have a "great Christmas" as a result of his deal. He added, "These companies are not going to be taking people's hearts out". Plant union president Don Zering told the Associated Press that production by the remaining 110 workers goes on only because factories in Mexico and McAllen, Texas-quite close to the border-aren't yet prepared to do the work. It's getting a ton of buzz online today as alleged evidence that Trump's big job-saving Carrier PR moment last fall was a sham, but I don't think that's correct.
Bedel points out that the agreement allows the state to claw back some of the $7 million in subsidies if the company does not stay for 10 years. Ford announced this week that a new factory to build small-car models will go to China.
Trump drove a stake through the heart of the already-dead Trans Pacific Partnership but hasn't withdrawn from NAFTA, imposed broad 35 percent tariffs on imports, or done anything to impede worldwide capital mobility. And that does not include the jobs saved at Carrier.
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