WASHINGTON ― After helping strike a deal to keep the Carrier Corporation from shutting down its furnace plant in Indianapolis one year ago on Wednesday, Donald Trump said the days of companies shipping jobs overseas had ended. “Companies are not going to leave the United States anymore without consequences,” Trump, who was then president-elect, said last year at the Carrier plant, echoing a key campaign promise. More than 93,000 jobs have been eliminated due to foreign competition since Trump’s election, according to Labor Department data analyzed by Good Jobs Nation, a union-backed labor advocacy group. At the very least, it seemed, the Carrier deal showed Trump could use the presidency to bully companies into hiring American workers. Donnelly and other Rust Belt Democrats have proposed legislation that would put companies that offshore jobs at a disadvantage in the federal procurement process.

Source: Huffington Post November 30, 2017 10:41 UTC