Carrier to lay off hundreds more workers - despite cash deal with Trump to save jobs
BRAD REED
09 NOV 2017 AT 08:01 ET
President Donald Trump last year struck a deal with the Carrier Corporation last year that was supposed to save American manufacturing jobs at the company and prevent it from moving them overseas.
Since then, however, Carrier has laid off hundreds of employees — and Fox News reports that the company is planning to lay off hundreds more workers early next year.
Specifically, Carrier says it plans to lay off 215 more workers this coming January, just months after it laid off more than 300 employees earlier this year. The deal that the company struck with Trump gave it $7 million to keep some jobs in the United States, although it still is moving many of the jobs at its Indiana plant down to Mexico anyway.
Although Carrier workers were initially jubilant about the deal to save their jobs, many have grown disillusioned as they’ve seen their colleagues laid off regardless of the incentives the company had to keep its production in the United States.
-snip- (a quote from a former employee, dated July 2017, Trump “blew smoke up our asses.”)
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art of the deal maker huh? 
can negotiate like that! He alone can add good paying jobs to the .............Mexican workforce. People actually believed that jackass. Of course if you ask Trump, he'll tell you that he's added more jobs to the U.S. economy than the last 4 previous Presidents combined. He's an economic whirlwind. Just ask him! 
of the country longer than expected, I kinda love the thought of him being some other country's problem. 
They know people have short memories and Fox and talk radio will cover for the lies between elections.
And, would anyone like to wager on who Carrier will support and fund in the next election? 
Every manufacturing owner in the USA dreams of having nothing but robots in their plants. They'd be so happy to lay everybody off if they had enough specialized robots to do the job. If that's not possible their second dream is to build plants in 3rd world countries that are filled with cheap, disposable people who don't have unions and don't demand raises and benefits.
These are the 2 pipe dreams that drive American manufacturing today. Anybody who works in industry should know this and be ready to change fields when the layoffs get to your level. I'm retired now but I worked in printing for pretty much my whole career. The printing industry (mostly small local business owners) has been devastated by the 2 trends I've stated above.
It's going to get worse - way worse.
And after Trump has tried so hard to create so many jobs. Oh well, he'll bring back the coal mines and lots of manufacturing jobs.
