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From Shareblue Media: Trump and Pence’s failed $7 million bribe to Carrier leads to new round of layoffs

Oliver Willis
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Thanks to President Bill Londrigan for sending us this story. Chuck Jones, retired president of USW Local 1999 at Carrier, was a featured speaker at the recent state AFL-CIO convention in Lexington. Click here to see a Liles Taylor video in which Jones tells about taking on Trump.

The HVAC company Carrier has announced even more layoffs in Indiana, exposing once again how Donald Trump and Mike Pence's $7 million bribe to the company screwed employees and taxpayers.

By OLIVER WILLIS

There are few better examples of how much of a snake oil salesman Donald Trump is than the latest news of even more layoffs at Carrier.

The company just announced that over 200 employees will lose their jobs at the Indianapolis plant in January. That follows Carrier’s decision earlier in the year to fire 300 workers at the same facility.

Carrier has been able to do this because Trump and then-Gov. Mike Pence put together a $7 million bribe to the company.Read more here.