NAFTA, TPP… Welcome To Obama’s Recovery: Carrier Moving 1400 Jobs To Mexico

from Zero Hedge:

In his final state-of-the-union address, President Obama famously accused anyone who dares to question the strength of the US economic “recovery” of “peddling fiction.” Shortly thereafter, we learned that the US economy grew at a paltry 0.69% in Q4. Below estimates.

Perhaps the most disturbing thing about the state of the economy – well, besides the fact that healthcare spending is essentially driving “growth” – is that the labor market has becoming awaiter and bartender creation machine. That’s come at the expense of manufacturing jobs, where skilled workers can actually earn a decent living.

On Wednesday, United Technologies decided to reinforce both of these trends all at once, whenthe company announced it would be eliminating 1,400 jobs at a Carrier plant in Indianapolis in favor of hiring some new “foreign-born” employees – only these “foreign-born” workers will be hired in Mexico.

“Two Indiana plants that make products for the heating, ventilating and air conditioning industry are shifting their manufacturing operations to Mexico, which will cost about 2,100 workers their jobs,” The Indianapolis Star reports. “Carrier is shuttering its manufacturing facility on Indianapolis’ west side, eliminating about 1,400 jobs during the next three years [and] United Technologies Electronic Controls said that it will move its Huntington manufacturing operations to a new plant in Mexico, costing the northeastern Indiana city 700 jobs by 2018.”

Watch as 1,000 soon-to-be Donald Trump voters react to the announcement.

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