Under the new deal, Carrier will keep 1,100 jobs at the Indianapolis plant, where the highest-paid employee can make as much as $26 an hour, or $70,000 a year with overtime. Under the new deal, Carrier will keep 1,100 jobs at the Indianapolis plant rather than shifting them to Mexico. Since 2000, Indiana has lost 150,000 manufacturing jobs. Nationally, 5m manufacturing jobs disappeared over the same period. “He was insisting on very steep tariffs for companies like Carrier that left the United States and wanted to sell their foreign-made products back in the United States.

Source: The Guardian December 01, 2016 23:48 UTC