More "Winning" on the job front...

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More "Winning" on the job front...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rexnord-layoffs-trump_us_58da9011e4b0d41721b987e8?

Rexnord Corp. has posted layoff notices inside its Indianapolis ball bearings factory where the company is stopping production so it can be done more cheaply in Mexico.

Rexnord has planned to lay off its 300 workers at the plant since last year, but President Donald Trump, who has said repeatedly he would stop American firms from shifting production abroad, criticized Rexnord’s plans in a tweet that raised expectations he might intervene.

“Evidently, Rexnord must not have read that,” said Chuck Jones, president of the United Steelworkers Local 1999, which represents workers at the closing factory.

The Local 1999 also represents workers at Carrier Corp.’s furnace factory about a mile from the Rexnord plant. In November, Trump did manage to strike a deal with Carrier’s parent company, United Technologies, to make the company cancel its plan to close the Carrier plant. Hundreds of Carrier workers will still be laid off later this year.

Trump made saving jobs for blue collar workers a centerpiece of his successful campaign. The U.S. economy has added manufacturing jobs in recent months, according to the Center for Economic and Policy Research, though manufacturing employment is still way down from its highs of decades ago. As Trump has complained, free trade agreements have made it profitable for companies to shift production to countries with cheaper labor.
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