Posted on 02/12/2016 11:41:38 AM PST by xzins
Edited on 02/12/2016 3:19:04 PM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]
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In a move guaranteeing that 2,100 workers will be out of a job, two Indiana plants have plans to move operations to Mexico.
The companies, who make products for heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC), will begin layoffs within the next two years.
Carrier Corp. said it would shutter its Indianapolis plant employing 1,400 workers and move its manufacturing to Mexico. The plant's workers would be laid off over three years starting in 2017.
United Technologies Electronic Controls (UTEC) also announced Wednesday that it will move its Huntington manufacturing operations to a new plant in Mexico, costing the northeastern Indiana city 700 jobs by 2018. Those workers make microprocessor-based controls for the HVAC and refrigeration industries.
It’s important not to lose sight of the fact that our overbearing regulatory environment, high taxes/Obamacare and often onerous unions play a part in moves like these. Are companies often too quick to move offshore to improve their balance sheet by taking advantage of lax regulations overseas? Yes. But a lot of them in recent years have had little choice, with the anti-business environment that exists. Some companies have little choice but to move overseas if they want to survive. Both issues have to be dealt with.
Looks like Trump will take Indiana now
The only bright spot is maybe more illegals will stay at home in Mexico instead of heading to USA.
You can find it if you look but it appears that a quarter of the workers make $14 an hour and the rest make @ $26 an hour.
And maybe Carrier or UTEC air conditioners?
Lemmings. Can’t figure out how to make your product better so cut costs by firing the workers that made your product great in the first place. Also, once one of these companies starts to outsource, they all have to.
I fear though, that it is too late to turn back. Too many back office jobs are in foreign countries now and I don’t know how that mess could ever be untangled.
I like that - it has promise...
That’s the truth. Jobs moving to Mexico. Clap please.
Our founding fathers had tariffs - it’s in the constitution. If you are for free trade you are not a patriot.
Yea, he’s going to get a lot of new support here.
I wouldn’t buy anything from them that’s been produced after today.
Not until massive tariffs are applied.
Couldn’t give me a carrier a/c now. Who doesn’t think those employees intend to destroy the brand before it leaves
The Giant Sucking Sound still being heard 21 years after NAFTA passage with no end in sight.
Yep, opening new markets for US products and creating US jobs as promised.
Now what was/is the pure conservative position on these issues, all you pure conservative scholars?
I still remember all the debates about NAFTA. I didn't follow politics that closely then as I was a bit younger, but I remember a lot of it.
The Republican establishment promoted NAFTA like it was going to be the best thing EVER!
Anyone that disagreed was labeled anti-freedom, anti-Capitalist, anti- this and that.
Well it turns out the whole thing was just a giant screw job!
Unfortunately, there are a lot of "Conservatives" that would be fine with offshoring literally every job in the country. We would become like Somalia or North Korea, but it would be good for business!
Too bad these companies didn't first attempt to move to a "right to work state" like others have done.
AMEN !!! Today 40% of all businesses labor costs here in the US is due to regulatory compliance, not the building and selling of products. That's why we have a "Service Economy"and that is being rapidly off-shored too.
I’m surprised they are not worried about cartels and the lawlessness in Mexico. This article is from 2011. Can’t imagine it’s gotten better.
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/apr/03/world/la-fg-mexico-monterey-fear-20120403
Maybe the cartels are more benign in Mexico. And the lawlessness is only on the street, and not in D.C.
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