Carrier workers praise Trump’s deal to keep more than 1000 jobs

In fact, Trump repeatedly pledged to keep Carrier jobs in the United States after the Indiana-based air conditioning and heating systems maker said it would move 1,400 jobs to Mexico.

And some questions remain about the extent of victory at Carrier, which announced this week that it will keep an Indianapolis plant open.

Trump boasted about his deal to keep about 1,100 Carrier jobs in IN, and also took aim at other companies who may be thinking about moving jobs out of the country.

Trump said the $16 million Carrier says it will invest in the plant, which he said was a minimum, will be quickly recouped, because of “the goodwill that you have engendered by doing this”.

President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence talk with factory workers during a visit to the Carrier factory. Sanders, who like Trump campaigned on preserving American jobs, said Trump’s “Band-Aid solution” is a short-term fix.

Media outlets reported on Thursday that retired Marine General James Mattis would be named defense secretary, but a Trump spokesman said no decision had been made.

Pence also thanked the workers at Carrier for their hard work, resilience and work ethic in hard times.

Trump said at the Carrier plant that more than 1,100 jobs will be maintained there.

However, that remains a fraction of the $65 million a year the company would have saved had it moved the plant to Mexico, suggesting the incentives were not the only factor in its decision to stay put.

Trump revealed to Carrier workers that despite his promise to keep jobs there, he hadn’t really been talking about that particular factory. “Because say what you want, Indiana”. And by the way, people are going to come through that wall. “So many jobs are leaving and going to other countries, not just Mexico”, Trump said.

“We are going to have a situation where they are going to know, number one, we’re going to treat them well and number two, there will be consequences”, he said.

While speaking to Carrier workers, Trump took aim at what many see as the “nature of America these days” with a warning to businesses looking to leave the United States for cheaper labor. The President-elect had made Carrier a piñata for his trade politics during the campaign, and post-election he lobbied Gregory Hayes, the CEO of United Technologies Corp.

Anthony Cook, a senior construction management major and chairman of the Ball State College Republicans, was happy about the deal.

Mr. Sanders said Mr. Trump promised to punish companies with punitive taxes but appears to have lured Carrier back with tax cuts. “If he’s done this for us here in IN before he’s even been elected, my gosh I can’t wait until he gets in office to see what he’ll do for the country”. “Find me someone who’s done that before”.

A Carrier spokesman said earlier Thursday that the company received $7 million in tax incentives from in to keep the factory running.

Mr. Trump on Thursday said he forgot about the promise, and when he saw it replayed on a television network he realized he meant it as a “euphemism” for all the jobs fleeing the country, not for Carrier specifically. But saving 1,000 of the 2,100 jobs at Carrier is not good enough.

And now all of a sudden the company takes the deal, and Trump is known for being somewhat vindictive.

“He has signalled to every corporation in America that they can threaten to offshore jobs in exchange for business-friendly tax benefits and incentives”. “Until NAFTA is fixed, this will just keep happening”.

It will also get about $200,000 a year to retrain workers, funding which is generally provided by the state.

“It’s a judgment call”, said Mitch Roob, who led the state’s economic development agency under then-Gov. “That’s how capitalism works”.