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Friday 2 december 2016

Trump salutes Carrier _ and himself _ for saving jobs

JONATHAN LEMIRE video of angry workers be- quences. It’s not going to manufacturer $7 million in The president-elect threat-
Associated Press ing informed about the de- happen. It’s simply not go- tax incentives after negoti- ened during the campaign
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Don- cision soon went viral. ing to happen.” ations with Trump’s team to to impose sharp tariffs on
ald Trump saluted workers, “We’re going to build the During the campaign, he keep some jobs in the state. any company that shifted
owners and himself Thurs- its factories to Mexico. And
day at a Carrier plant in his advisers have promoted
Indiana, declaring that a lower corporate tax rates
deal to keep a local plant as a means of keeping jobs
open instead of moving in the U.S.
operations to Mexico was Trump repeated both ideas
only the first of many busi- on Thursday.
ness victories to come in He toured the factory with
the U.S. with him as presi- his running mate Mike
dent. Pence — who, as the out-
Trump’s stop at the heat- going governor of Indiana,
ing and air conditioning was well-situated to aid
giant’s plant, his first major negotiations — and shook
public appearance since hands with several workers
the election more than two whose jobs would be pre-
weeks ago, marked the served. Trump pointed to
opening of a victory tour to one and yelled at report-
states that helped him win. ers “He’s going to have a
He was appearing at a big good Christmas.”
rally in Cincinnati Thursday Though hundreds may
night. keep their jobs, others ap-
His speaking style, while parently will not, since
calmer than on the cam- roughly 1,400 workers were
paign trail, was similar to slated to be laid off — and
the seemingly stream-of- President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence talk with factory workers many workers have not
conscious efforts of the during a visit to the Carrier factory, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016, in Indianapolis, Ind. yet been told their fate.
past year. While focusing (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) Trump’s deal with Carrier
on the hundreds of jobs may be a public relations
he said he had saved from wall,” Trump said, repeat- had often pointed to the In- Chuck Jones, the head of success for the incoming
moving to Mexico, he also ing his vow to construct an diana plant’s moving plans the USW Local 1999 union president but also suggests
found time to talk about his impenetrable southern bor- and a major result of poor that represents the workers, that he has unveiled a new
Hoosier state primary per- der. “Trust me: We’re going Obama administration poli- said the additional jobs in presidential economic ap-
formance, former Indiana to build that wall.” In other cies, and he pledged to Trump’s count were previ- proach: actively choosing
University basketball coach recent remarks, he has sug- revive U.S. manufacturing. ously set to be saved. individual corporate win-
Bob Knight and the wall he gested that he might actu- Officials said this week that The company’s decision ners and losers — or at least
has promised to build along ally go for a fence along Carrier had agreed to keep is something of a reversal, winners. To critics who see
the U.S.-Mexico border. some portions of the bor- some 800 union jobs at the since earlier offers from the other Indiana factories on
Some questions remain der. plant but Trump suggested state had failed to sway the verge of closing, deals
about the extent of the “The Rust Belt is so incred- Thursday that it could ex- Carrier. like the one at Carrier are
victory at Carrier, which ible but we’re losing com- ceed 1,100. Trump said he personally unlikely to stem the job
announced this week that panies, it’s unbelievable. A call to a Carrier spokes- called Greg Hayes, the losses caused by automa-
it will keep an Indianapo- Just one after the other,” man to clarify was not im- CEO of United Technolo- tion and cheap foreign
lis plant open. In February, Trump said to workers at mediately returned. Ear- gies, Carrier’s parent, to competition, and the pros-
the heating and air condi- the Indianapolis plant. lier Thursday, Seth Martin, a seal the deal, jokingly ask- pect that the White House
tioning company said that “Companies are not going spokesman for Carrier, said ing Hayes, “If I lost would might directly intervene is
it would shut the plant and to leave the United States that Indiana offered the air you have picked up the also a concern to some
send jobs to Mexico, and anymore without conse- conditioning and furnace phone?” economists.q