Sanders Blasts Deal Between Carrier, Trump: Workers Should Be 'Nervous'

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Thursday blasted Donald Trump's reported deal to keep 1,000 Carrier jobs in Indiana, warning that the agreement could set a bad precedent for companies looking for tax breaks.

"Trump has endangered the jobs of workers who were previously safe in the United States. Why? Because he has signaled to every corporation in America that they can threaten to offshore jobs in exchange for business-friendly tax benefits and incentives," Sanders wrote in a Washington Post op-ed published Thursday morning. "Even corporations that weren’t thinking of offshoring jobs will most probably be re-evaluating their stance this morning. And who would pay for the high cost for tax cuts that go to the richest businessmen in America? The working class of America."

Trump and Carrier Corp. said this week that they will announce a deal on Thursday to keep 1,000 Carrier jobs in Indiana after the company announced it would be moving a plant to Mexico. In exchange for keeping some jobs in Indiana, Carrier will get a tax incentive package from the state. Trump and Pence also pledged to reduce federal regulations and make changes in the tax code during the negotiations, according to the New York Times.

Carrier's parent company, United Technologies, is a big federal defense contractor and likely had a big incentive to keep jobs in the U.S. and curry favor with the incoming administration.

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[Lucky Luciano]

1. Go Bernie Go! nt

[heaven05]

2. Well

the rich will get richer, we will get poorer, sicker and hungrier soon. Even trumpfuhrer voters, SUCKERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[gordianot]

3. The era of Corporate terrorism is at hand.

We have your job and you will have to deal with our demands or else. AKA The Art of the Deal.

[Mc Mike]

4. Everything's for sale. At firesale prices. Scam artist orange nazi. nt

[lark]

5. Preach it loud and often, Bernie.

The orange fuhrer is at it again, currying favor with big defense business so they can personally line their own pockets in the future.
I really hate all the working class fools who voted for this fucking fraud. Some of them get to keep their jobs today, but how long before they are moved, and at what cost to the country and themselves in the long term.

[KT2000]

6. "keeping some jobs in Indiana"

I think we know how that works. Probably just enough jobs to keep the tax breaks. Wonder how much the state is paying for 1,000 jobs.

[ProfessorGAC]

7. $700k

Which if, or course, bogus. This whole "deal" smells weird. You don't move production to a low employment cost country to save $700 per employee, or around 33 cents an hour per employee. They were moving jobs to Mexico to save 33 cents and hour. I don't think so.

I suspect that Carrier was NEVER moving all those jobs and this was a bluff that they won, or the dollar figure is far, far higher than what is being reported.

[KT2000]

8. thanks

I think you are right - it could have been just a dog and pony show for his supporters.

[Tikki]

9. If you are not receiving at least the same pay and benefits, your job has NOT been saved.

If you work outside your job description, extra work or longer hours without over-time pay..your job has NOT been saved.

If you are now working in unsafe conditions with no recourse to complain or action taken to remedy...your job has NOT been saved.

If nepotism or favoritism places untrained or unqualified workers in position of higher pay...your job has NOT been saved.

If you are penalized, harassed or fired for looking into Union activity...you job has NOT been saved.

And you will know your job has NOT been saved...when you are told to train a new employee to take your job.


Tikki

[Calista241]

10. I think this type of stuff happens all the time anyway.

There's a reason Coca-cola and UPS are here in Atlanta. There's a reason State Farm and Porsche just moved here.

Sports teams are only the worst offenders everyone hears about because there's a giant new stadium, and cities have to buy property and such to keep them.

[Tikki]

11. Why not keep all the employees, then?

Carrier gets their way and our money whether we give a s**t about their product.

This should be called out daily, so marginalized workers recognize what is going on right under their noses.

The repug voter's say they voted for a change.

This is not change, as you so kindly pointed out.

Tikki

[Calista241]

12. Carrier got 700k in incentives.

The payroll cost of 1000 people is many, many times that amount. Even if all of those people only make 25k annually, that's still 25m in annual payroll carrier has to support, and Indiana gets to tax. The 700k sounds like a bullshit, fake number so that both sides can claim a win.

I'm not saying it was a good deal, and I suspect there were some handshakes regarding UTC's military contracts that we don't know about.

But this was definitely a huge PR win for Trump. A fraction of the tv time, news articles and whatnot are covering the details of the deal that we know now, versus the wall to wall coverage when he deal was announced.

Trump is a racist, misogynistic, classist asshole; but the man is a marketing genius.

[Tikki]

13. I'm just asking...where is the CHANGE? Since you are talking a State specific...

Wait until a BLUE STATE makes just any kind of deal.

Every detail will be 'front page' news and all over the media.

Their goal is separation of States.

Meanwhile...they slip by with slight of hand. Houdini was a genius, trump is an ass.

I've never seen a tv show of his or read a book of his, maybe you know more than I do. I just know about the people
he swindled and his bankruptcies.
Tikki

[Calista241]

15. Sure it happens in blue states.

New York is offering no taxes for 10 years for companies with their Start Up NY program.

The St. Louis Rams just moved to Los Angeles because LA is building them a stadium. The most expensive stadium ever built.

[Tikki]

16. And as you know..details of the RAMS move are all...

over the media, diagnosed and spread to all corners. It would be pretty hard for any viewer of the NFL to not know all about this move, unless they mute the TV. But they missed the most important detail...

... the fact that California workers from 300 Unions will be part of the 22K workers locally building this stadium. It was only discussed locally, as far as I can tell.

Who will diagnose this Carrier deal all over the media and explain the whole deal
and it's short and long term ramifications to the American worker?

Tikki

[rockfordfile]

14. Sanders is correct. The more info that comes out the more horrible this "deal/scam" is