…”and we will win, and you will win, and we will keep on winning, and eventually you will say we can’t take all of this winning, …please Mr. Trump …and I will say, NO, we will win, and we will keep on winning”. ~ Donald Trump
The bigger story here is that: A.) A U.S. President-Elect actually cares about blue collar jobs, and B.) United Technologies, ie. Carrier’s parent company, recognizes their best interests are now to focus on “America First”.
(New York Times) From the earliest days of his campaign, Donald J. Trump made keeping manufacturing jobs in the United States his signature economic issue, and the decision by Carrier, the big air-conditioner company, to move 2,000 1,400 of them from Indiana to Mexico was a tailor-made talking point for him on the stump.
On Thursday, Mr. Trump and Mike Pence, Indiana’s governor and the vice-president elect, plan to appear at Carrier’s Indianapolis plant to announce they’ve struck a deal with the company to keep roughly half of the jobs in the state, according to officials with the transition team as well as Carrier. (read more)
We are pleased to have reached a deal with President-elect Trump & VP-elect Pence to keep close to 1,000 jobs in Indy. More details soon.
— Carrier HVAC (@CarrierHVAC) November 30, 2016
.@Carrier will keep close to 1,000 jobs in the United States of America. Together, we can all #MAGA🇺🇸 #AmericaFirst #USA🇺🇸 https://t.co/Zt1lmhpVdT
— Dan Scavino Jr.🇺🇸🦅 (@DanScavino) November 30, 2016
Vice President-elect Mike Pence will be in Indianapolis Thursday to meet with top officials at Carrier to discuss deal, per transition aides
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) November 30, 2016
BREAKING: Trump team and United Technologies reach agreement on keeping close to 1,000 factory jobs in Carrier plant in Indiana – sources
— CNBC (@CNBC) November 30, 2016