The following article by Bryce Covert was posted on the Think Progress website April 27, 2017:
Signs from Trump rally’s and from protests of Trump’s visit to Carrier Factory; CREDIT: Diana Ofosu
Susan Haines and Sharon Vanacker knew something was wrong when their CTS Corporation factory in Elkhart, Indiana shut down production one afternoon in June of last year.
That “never happens, unless it’s a holiday or something,” Vanacker said. “Even on weekends they don’t shut down all production.”
All of the sensor and actuator plant’s employees were asked to attend a town hall style meeting with a company vice president. It was there that they found out that everyone at the factory would be losing their jobs beginning in January 2017. The work will instead be moved to factories in Mexico, China, and Taiwan. Continue reading “Trump says he’s stopping jobs from going abroad. Here’s the truth.”