Don’t Forget About Us,Plant Workers Tell Trump
As Donald Trump held a victory lap touting a decision by Carrier to keep an Indianapolis plant open rather than move the facility to Mexico, workers at another of the company’s Indiana plants said they are still losing their jobs.
Around 700 jobs will be lost when United Technologies Electronic Controls moves to Mexico sometime in 2018, workers told NBC News.
CNBC confirmed Thursday that the company still plans to close the Huntington plant and move it to Mexico.
“What about our jobs in Huntington,” read a sign carried by Bob Breedlove, 60, who has worked at the facility for 11 years and was told layoffs will begin sometime in 2017.
Breedlove voted for Trump. “I still support him, I’m glad he is able to save some jobs,” he said of the Indianapolis deal. “Obviously, I wish he would be able to save ours also.”
The deal to keep the Carrier plant in Indianapolis was visually an early success for Trump, who has made keeping jobs in the United States a central part of his campaign. The decision is expected to keep nearly 1,000 jobs in the U.S.
“Companies are not going to leave the United States anymore without consequences. Not gonna happen,” Trump said in Indianapolis Thursday. He pledged to work to lower business taxes as part of a plan to keep businesses in the U.S.
