Donald Trump campaigned promising to bring jobs back to the United States by exiting trade deals. One of the examples he gave was the Carrier plant that was going to shut down and move to Mexico.
Others said that foreign trade was not the main source of the problem of job loss in the United States. They cited other reasons, such as automation.
Carrier decided not to cut all the jobs at the plant Mr. Trump cited, after a call from Mr. Trump. Unfortunately, he claimed to have saved 1150 of the jobs that were going to be cut, when the actual number was only 800. Not, by a long shot, the only or the most egregious fact Mr. Trump has gotten wrong. Also, it appears that Carrier decided to keep the 800 jobs because of tax incentives offered by the state of Indiana, not because of anything Mr. Trump did.
Now, according to CNN, thousands of Americans are losing their jobs after Mr. Trump was elected.
General Motors has announced that it will lay off 1300 workers, in addition to another 2000 who will lose their jobs within a month.
Boeing has already fired thousands of workers, but the company told it's employees it will continue to cut jobs into 2017.
Airbus has told its labor unions that it intends to cut around 1200 jobs.
GoPro has announced plans to lay off 200 workers.
Xerox says lay offs are coming.
Caterpillar laid off 10,000 workers last fall and has said it will continue laying off workers.
The Limited has told all 248 workers at its Ohio home office that their jobs are in jeopardy.
America, you have been conned.
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