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Trump is not a traditional Republican or a Democrat.
For Democrats the biggest worry is how many more Democrats are going to deflect and join Trump in his second term. I'd say many more.
Working class Republicans are going to flee from Trump after the recession and all the corruption scandals are uncovered in his first term. Trump isn't going to be responsible for the recession though since that is long overdue (a recession has happened every decade so it is just the normal business cycle) but the Democrats are going to pound him hard on it.
I am elated that 1100 American citizens will keep their jobs!
President Trump would be unwise to include her in his cabinet.
Oh boy, 1100 keeping their jobs. But they are still sending their jobs to Mexico. But would make me elated is Trump and his daughter bringing their jobs to the US which they have sent overseas.
The fact that Indiana taxpayers had to cough up millions to keep the jobs in-state—as well as the reality that automation will continue to make some human skills obsolete—paints Trump’s solution as a Band-aid. It is not a reasonable long-term strategy to retain manufacturing jobs. And as Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders pointed out, Carrier’s sweet deal shows other companies how to out-negotiate Trump.
But lost in this confusing situation is the solution. It’s been there, provided by Carrier and its parent company United Technologies since the beginning: education and training.
Carrier understands the real solution is to retrain employees for modern jobs
Buried in Carrier’s letter to its employees, there’s a promise to provide “four full years of the Employee Scholar Program post-employment, which pays for education to develop new skills in a field of their choice.”
For employees, this is huge. “Ninety some-odd percent of the folks that work at Carrier are assembly line workers,” says United Steelworkers Local 1999’s President Chuck Jones. “They’re gonna have to be retrained if possible to other skill sets.”
This program from United Technologies isn’t new, and it’s not just for laid-off workers. Employees who currently work there can receive free education, too.
“All [United Technologies] companies have had this for along time, but they’ve been pushing it even more since the announcement,” Bray says. “A lot more employees have been taking advantage of it. It seems like it’s probably gone up to 15% who have taken advantage.”
I've asked this multiple times with no answer. What jobs are these that we are supposedly going to train people for?
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