1,300 Indiana employees will still lose jobs, despite Trump deal

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While hundreds of Carrier employees are celebrating the news that their jobs are staying in Indiana, not everyone in the company's employment was spared.

Carrier's parent company, United Technologies, is still going forward with its plan to close its Huntington, Indiana, plant and outsource 700 jobs to Mexico, according to local media reports.

United originally announced its decision to relocate the Huntington plant, United Technologies Electronic Controls, on the same day in February it revealed the Indianapolis plant's closure.

President-elect Donald Trump spent much of his campaign vowing to keep Carrier jobs in the US, and touted his $7 million incentive deal with United at the Carrier plant in Indianapolis on Thursday.

But employees at the Huntington plant were dismayed to hear they apparently weren't part of the equation.

"His whole campaign was focused on Indy," Huntington plant employee Mike Harmon told ABC2. "I never heard one thing about the Huntington plant. So yeah, we do feel forgotten."

"Everybody's down. Tension's high. Everybody is on everybody," another employee told Indianapolis station WTHR.

In addition to the Huntington closure, 600 Carrier jobs will also still be moving to Mexico, The Wall Street Journal reported.

[Rat Boy 43,832]

Trump already slaying (them jobs) before taking office.

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2 minutes ago, Mer Boy said:

Trump already slaying before taking office.

The shade is so thick I started howling.

[Morphine Prince 109,655]

Sad for the workers. 

Something has to be done about all this outsourcing. 

[2007 5,291]

Now more will lose than he intended to save, I feel sorry for those but I can't help it, Donald make America grea

 

[TheJoanneJoker 3,866]

i wonder how many of those workes voted for trump

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33 minutes ago, Morphine Prince said:

Sad for the workers. 

Something has to be done about all this outsourcing. 

Bernie is proposing legislation, let's see if it gets a vote.

[Woolfsmck 2,763]

Heh,  Trump did this, did that, gonna mess up...its all Trump's fault...

 

Good thing about all this is, no more Bush did this, did that, ... its all Bush's fault....

[President Trump 3,508]

Carrier had already built an entirely new facility in Mexico, and already has a work force in Mexico, because they've been planning this for a while.

[Lion Heart 15,041]

Sad to hear this. 

 

I do wonder how many of them voted for Trump though.

[Gaga Monster 13,001]

They were already going forward with this plan. The facility was made in Mexico already. Trump saved 1,000 jobs, so they are losing 1300 instead of 2300. He didn't have to save those 1000, he isn't even president yet. 

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3 hours ago, Born To Slay said:

Bernie is proposing legislation, let's see if it gets a vote.

What's the legislation he is proposing? You have any details on this? 

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8 hours ago, Whispering said:

What's the legislation he is proposing? You have any details on this? 

http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/-sanders-statement-on-carrier-and-outsourcing

[Eighteen 5,430]

he did a good thing with this. but then he ruined it all with his speech about it in cincinnati, talking crazy nonsense again, showing how thin his skin is again, sigh. same old guy. 

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7 hours ago, 18 said:

he did a good thing with this. but then he ruined it all with his speech about it in cincinnati, talking crazy nonsense again, showing how thin his skin is again, sigh. same old guy. 

I wouldn't say his action was overall a good one. As Bernie said, this is setting a dangerous precedent that could hurt countless workers across the country. 

It more of a mostly bad thing with some good caused by it