Heating and air-conditioning company Carrier, which has announced it will move 1,400 Americans’ jobs to Mexico, received $5.1 million from the Obama administration.
Local media reported the “Department of Energy awarded Carrier $5.1 million in clean energy tax credits in December 2013” for its Indianapolis facility. They planned to use the money to “expand production at its Indianapolis facility to meet increasing demand for its eco-friendly condensing gas furnace product line.”
From WIBC:
“Energy Efficient Buildings: With the support of $5.1 million in 48C Program tax credits, Carrier Corporation will expand production at its Indianapolis facility to meet increasing demand for its eco-friendly condensing gas furnace product line. The new line includes the most energy efficient gas furnaces on the market – all with at least 95 percent annual fuel utilization efficiency”
At the time, John Gibbons, director of Carrier’s residential product and platform strategy,said the cash “has been instrumental in helping Carrier’s Indianapolis manufacturing facility accelerate production of our high-efficiency gas furnace line.”
Despite the money, the company announced last week they decided to move 1,400 jobs to Mexico. Local union representatives will discuss the move with Carrier. Fox 59 reportedthat some “employees will be entitled to severance benefits, including access to the company’s Employee Scholar Program, which pays for tuition, books and fees at accredited higher education institutions.”
An employee documented her co-worker’s outrage at the announcement.
“Today’s surprise announcement was without warning and incredibly disappointing,” said Mayor Joe Hogsett. “While I am obviously concerned about the economic impact, my top priority is the well-being of the hardworking families affected by this decision. A job lost in any part of our community affects us all, and I believe these are the times we must come together as one city to lift up our neighbors.”
5.1 Million dollars could have taken care of EVERY citizen, Vet, and homeless person in the united states of amerika.
But no, they STEAL that 5.1 Million from us and give it to ONE company who then bails out into another country further destroying the lives of working people.
This is a SICK country.
Obummer gave them nothing… It is we the people who have paid, and are continuing to pay for the out sourcing of our jobs. I would suggest that we do not ask for our money back, but demand that Carrier products can no longer be sold in the united states. Let them sell their crap to China. If corporations want to run the world let us make it easy for them. Boycott everything corporate. Easy to do as we descend into poverty caused by the same corporations.
“Obummer gave them nothing… It is we the people who have paid, and are continuing to pay for the out sourcing of our jobs”
FACT!
Carrier are the people who make the refrigeration units that go on my trailer and about 2 million other trailers around the United States. One thing to understand is that they have a huge repair network around the United States and I’ve been to a lot of them,and they all employee basically Americans, hardly any wet backs at all, if that’s any consolation, but there is a huge repair service network in place inside United States and thank God that they won’t go be going anywhere.
Thermo King is the other big player.
i bet the workers at the Indiana plant have no clue that there beloved plant got millions to move….
I was thinking the same thing.
Carrier just dug their own grave. It truly was a “Business decision” after all. Sick sons of bitches. Hope the corporate swines burn in Hell.