Palm Beach, FL – Trump Spends Thanksgiving ‘Working Hard’ On Keeping Carrier Plant In US

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    FILE - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump gestures to the news media as he appears outside the main clubhouse at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, U.S., November 20, 2016. REUTERS/Mike SegarPalm Beach, FL – Republican President-elect Donald Trump said on Thursday he was spending part of his Thanksgiving holiday trying to convince an Indiana air conditioner maker to stay in the United States – reflecting his election campaign pledge to stop the flow of jobs abroad.

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    Trump, who is also weighing decisions on his Cabinet during a family retreat at his Mar-a-Lago golf resort in Florida, said on Twitter that he was “working hard, even on Thanksgiving, trying to get Carrier A.C. Company to stay in the U.S. (Indiana). MAKING PROGRESS – Will know soon!”

    Carrier Corp, a division of United Technologies Corp, responded on Twitter that the company has had “discussions with the incoming administration” but had “nothing to announce at this time.” A representative for the company had no additional comment.

    Earlier this year, the company said it would move 1,400 jobs to Mexico from Indiana, giving a three-year timetable for the shift.

    The state’s Republican Governor Mike Pence – later picked by Trump as his vice-presidential running mate – decried the decision, and spoke out against it often on the campaign trail.

    Trump made Carrier’s decision part of his rallying cry against trade deals that he said were unfavorable to American workers and his campaign pledge to bring manufacturing jobs back to America. He said he would slap taxes on the company’s air conditioners shipped back into the United States.

    Asked by Reuters last week whether the company was reconsidering its decision given Trump’s victory in the Nov. 8 election, the company said in a statement that it was “making every effort” to help its Indiana employees during the shift.

    “By providing three years advance notice of the move and by funding education and retraining programs for up to four years after the move is complete, we are providing employees with both time and opportunity to help them to make a smooth transition,” the company said.

    Carrier also cited an agreement it had reached with the United Steelworkers union about compensation for affected workers.

    Trump also railed against Ford Motor Co during the campaign, and last week took a victory lap on Twitter after the company informed him it would not shift production of a Lincoln sport utility vehicle to Mexico from Kentucky.

    “I worked hard with Bill Ford to keep the Lincoln plant in Kentucky,” Trump tweeted.

    Ford had never considered moving the whole factory south of the border, but said it was encouraged by Trump’s business policies.

    Trump, who takes office on Jan. 20, announced two new picks on Wednesday for his Cabinet – South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and wealthy Republican donor and school choice advocate Betsy DeVos to lead the Education Department.

    A spokesman for his transition team said there would be no announcements on Thursday.


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    cbdds
    cbdds
    7 years ago

    A good friend of mine is an air conditioning and heating contractor. For thirty years he was a sworn Carrier dealer which also includes certain other brands which are not commonly known to be part of the carrier production. As carriers started to produce more parts and machines in Mexico he started to lose money on every carrier installation because of the Myriad quality problems until he was forced to dump carrier and start with a new company after three decades.
    If carrier continued pushing these defective air conditioners and heaters on the American public then they were deceiving the public and selling them third-rate garbage at First Class prices. Las America loses twice once by sending American dollars out of the country to pay for goods that should have been produced by American workers and then Americans unlucky enough to buy this junk have to go ahead and pay repair bill after repair Bill ad infinitum

    yonasonw
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    yonasonw
    7 years ago

    “Las America loses twice once by sending American dollars out of the country to pay for goods that should have been produced by American workers”

    Except when Trump has his products produced overseas…then he’s making America great again. Even the “Make America Great Again” hats…they’re made in China.