Economics
Trump Claims Victory at Carrier as Manufacturing Still Bleeds
- Pressuring factory owners not seen as viable economic policy
- Factory sector faces market forces, globalization, automation
Donald Trump: We Can’t Allow Jobs to Leave the U.S.
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President-elect Donald Trump said he called the top executive of United Technologies Corp. shortly after his election and told him not to close a Carrier factory in Indianapolis that became a symbol of the Republican’s outsider campaign for the White House.
“I called Greg and I said it’s really important, you have to do something because you have a lot of people leaving,” Trump said about his call to Greg Hayes, the company’s chairman, president and CEO, at the Carrier factory on Thursday, where he appeared with Vice President-elect Mike Pence, the current governor of Indiana. “You have to understand, we can’t allow this to happen anymore with our country.”