Trump’s Carrier deal moves 1300 jobs to Mexico
Listening to Trump and the glowing media reports, you won’t hear the whole story.
Like his dodgy business empire, it’s what’s behind the curtain that matters more than the smoke and mirrors on stage. Trump’s deal shows that his plan to “Make America Great Again” is based on accelerating the race to the bottom for American workers.
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Take the agreement itself. Trump crowed about saving 1,100 jobs, but the Wall Street Journal reported that includes “300 research and headquarters positions that weren’t slated to go to Mexico.” That means the number of jobs being saved is 800 out of a total of 2,100 jobs that were to be transferred. In other words, 1,300 workers will still get the boot from two Carrier facilities in Indiana.
So when Trump told the crowd at Carrier, “All of the workers [will] have a great, great Christmas,” he was erasing the many more workers whose jobs will be eliminated.
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