Posted on 11/30/2016 8:36:03 PM PST by TigerClaws
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Officials in the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon expressed disappointment Wednesday at Carrier Corp.'s announcement it will keep hundreds of jobs in the United States rather than send them south of the border.
Carrier said it had made a deal with President-elect Donald Trump to keep the jobs at its plant in Indiana.
Carrier currently operates one plant in Nuevo Leon and has built but not yet occupied another one there as part of a planned $200 million expansion.
"The implications are very serious, not only for Nuevo Leon, but for Carrier," Sen. Marcela Guerra said.
"The one who is going to suffer from this is the company ... because their products are going to be more expensive," she added.
Still, Guerra said she could understand Trump's fight to save U.S. jobs. "I understand the fight, because it is the same fight all we politicians carry out."
At a news conference, the mayor of Santa Catarina, the Monterrey suburb where the Carrier plant is, said he had not heard from the company.
"We haven't received any formal notification from the company. In fact, we are working normally with them," Mayor Hector Castillo said, adding that Carrier has already constructed the shell of the new factory building.
Monterrey, Santa Catarina and much of Nuevo Leon was gripped four years ago by a wave of drug cartel violence and killings. But the situation has calmed, in part because of greater law enforcement efforts but also because of increased job availabilities at new businesses, such as a new Kia Motors auto plant, that have opened nearby.
"By offering people working conditions that allow them to look after their families' welfare, they have been kept to some extent busy and on the road to progress" and away from illicit activities, said Jaime Garcia, director for economic development of Santa Catarina.
Like any city, Santa Catarina "would be grateful" for Carrier's jobs, Garcia said.
He declined to comment on Trump's effort, saying: "We are respectful but we keep our distance from the president-elect's policies."
Officials in the union for Carrier's Mexican workers could not be reached for comment. Calls to the union's offices went unanswered.
I have no doubt they are.
My response to Mexico?: Eat my ass.
Lots of companies are going to have 8 years of dissappointments. And when it’s done, Trump will likely have changed the conventional wisdom (or lack thereof) about how to regulate international trade.
Darned? What are we in second grade? :)
I know. Not everyone has a NYer mouth!
1000 jobs times maybe 50k a year if 50 million a year? right?
over ten years that’s 500 MILLION added to the economy.
From ONE PLACE!!!
If i’m off big time someone let me know :)
plus repairs and maintenance and snow plowing :)
He made them an offer they couldn’t refuse.
Donald Trump is the Vito Corleone of presidents :) Except for the illegal part.
Boo-frikken-hoo.
Illegals have stolen over a million dollars from my family’s business over the last decade.
I’m heartless, and want them all gone.
Don’t be sad, there will be jobs building the wall. Oh and cousin Jose is coming home for Christmas..
Boo-hoo, Mexico. Straighten out your historical
political corruption issues at all levels, educate your
people, impart smart and honest business practices,
and you may have the kind of successful nation that
the two nations to your north enjoy..... Fat chance.
Those jobs will be made up by all the taco trucks soon heading south.
One story from my small world:
Mexican guy operates a yard business. He’s paid and is legal. All his workers illegals. He gets paid and then pays the workers in cash (not much cash).
The ones we get have Indian blood so they are all drunks. His worker drives off the highway drunk, fortunately doesn’t kill anyone, winds up in a coma.
I see him a month later, “What happened to that guy in the wreck?” “He went back to Mexico. Came out of the coma, had a hospital bill for $250,000 he didn’t pay, so he went home.”
So we get to pay it! Or it’s a loss to the hospital and we all pay next time we go.
No social security, no withholding, no payroll tax, no health insurance, no workers comp, no Obamacare compliance, nothing.
Then the workers get ‘earned income tax credits’ for the little Jose (all 11 of them) who lives back in Mexico!
Then Obama encourages them to go vote in a federal election and cancel out OUR votes.
“Why are Americans so angry??” they ask....
I’ve heard that but i don’t see how low wage workers pay enough into SS. They also take out far more than they paid in. Most illegals work under the table anyway.
Exactly.
The stick and the carrot. Take the incentives and stick around, or we’ll hammer you.
We need a President with BALLS. We need to punish our enemies.
#WINNING
“...prepare for about 8 million of your citizens to return home.”
What are we supposed to do with the other 32 million? They need to go home, too.
Winning is cool! Forgot all about it for 28 years.
INCLUDING mid terms.
The MSM lie is we’ve stayed at 11 million for ... decades.
How many are here? Guess we’ll find out when they go!
First ones to kick out are those that committed a federal felony by voting in our election while they were foreign citizens.
Down payment on the Wall.
I live in Los Angeles. I’m disappointed that people from your country have flooded into this country and turned LA into a TWSH.
People down there are already taking matters in their own hands and one honest Mexican with the national recognition and nads of Trump standing up telling them they don't have to take it any more will set the powder keg off without the constant stream of money from family in the US flowing.
JMHo
Where did Carlos Slim really get his money?
55 billion from phones. Really?
Would be interesting if the New York Times was owned by someone Trump could go after once he has control over the fed gov’t.
Crying a river for Mehico—NOT.
“Both parties have sold out the average American and we are onto it and to their lying media.”
Yes, Trump is really a Third Party. He faces real threats from both of the “Other Parties,” because they are in mortal fear that their gravy trains are going to be completely derailed.
It is ABOUT DARNED TIME, that America had a champion in trade.
Our own side, has been selling us out, forever.
Both parties.
.
It’s infuriating And we just had the media and both parties try their hardest to derail the bid of a guy who is now already saving jobs.
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