President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence plan to appear at Carrier’s Indianapolis factory on Thursday to announce a deal to keep nearly 1,000 jobs in Indiana, according to officials on Trump’s transition team and Carrier.
The president-elect campaigned heavily on bringing manufacturing jobs back to America and often cited Carrier as an example of jobs moving to Mexico after the company announced last February it was moving approximately 2,000 jobs from Indiana to Monterrey. The projected economic damage to Indiana from these plant closures — Carrier’s parent corporation, United Technologies Corp., also has a facility in Huntington — was estimated to be $108 million.
