200 soon-to-be laid off Carrier workers to livestream from Ind. bar about Trump

More than 200 workers will be laid off by air-conditioning giant Carrier on Thursday at the Indiana plant.

More than 200 workers at the Carrier air conditioning plant in Indiana will lose their jobs Thursday — so they’re going to spend their last night of employment at a local bar, livestreaming a discussion on how President Trump can save U.S. manufacturing.

The 215 workers to be laid off Thursday are the last of 600 positions the air conditioning plant previously said it had to eliminate — even though it got some $7 million in tax rebates to stay in the state.

The workers are meeting at 7p.m. Wednesday at Sully’s Bar and Grill in Indianapolis, according to the IndyStar.

Sponsored by Good Jobs Nation, the workers want to share how the loss of their jobs will affect them — and send a message to President Trump to step up efforts to protect blue-collar factory jobs.

The workers are meeting at a bar in Indiana to livestream a chat about how President Trump can do better to protect U.S. manufacturing jobs.

During the livestream, workers plan to ask President Trump to use his Jan. 30 State of the Union address to renew his pledge to stop the outsourcing of American jobs, IndyStar said.

Carrier had previously let 340 workers go over the summer — part of a deal it struck with President-elect Trump and Vice-President elect Mike Pence after the Nov. 8 elections.

The air conditioning company’s announcement that it would be moving 2,100 jobs to Mexico became a talking point of the presidential campaign — with Republican candidate Trump vowing to “tax the hell” out of Carrier’s imports if it went south of the border.

He and Pence announced a deal with the company — to great fanfare — after his general election win.

The soon-to-be laid off workers want to send a message to Trump about stepping up efforts to save blue-collar factory jobs.

 

Pence, then the governor of Indiana, offered Carrier some $7 million in conditional tax benefits if they kept half the jobs in the U.S. and stayed open 10 more years.

While Trump claimed the deal as a major victory, the actual number of jobs saved was always up in the air — with the union of the workers claiming it was far fewer than the President alleged.

Roughly 1,100 workers remain at the Indianapolis plant, according to the IndyStar.