For the complete story,
read the link. But here are the numbers:
We could not reach a spokesperson for United Technologies for comment Sunday, so we're going by reported estimates in
the Washington Post,
New York Times and the
Wall Street Journal, among others.
The first way to add up the number — which doesn’t support McGhee’s point — is by looking just at Carrier jobs. Again, more than 1,400 Carrier jobs were heading to Mexico before the incoming administration intervened.
Multiple reports put the number of saved jobs from that plant at 800 union workers, mainly those involved with building furnaces.
So that’s more than half, or 57 percent, of the estimated 1,400 jobs that were slated to be lost from the Indianapolis plant.
That’s a bit lower than the "more than 1,000 jobs" talking point we’ve heard from Pence, Trump and Carrier. According to
CNNMoney, that total is inflated by factoring in 300 primarily administrative and engineering jobs held by parent company United Technologies that were not at risk of moving to Mexico.
The letter that McGhee talked about on the show was sent to employees Dec. 1. Carrier said it would move forward with its earlier plan to relocate its fan coil manufacturing lines out of the country.
Breaking: Carrier confirms in letter to workers that fan coil jobs will "relocate" to Mexico by end of 2017.
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"While this announcement is good news for many, we recognize it is not good news for everyone," reads the letter. "We are moving forward with previously announced plans to relocate the fan coil manufacturing lines, with expected completion by the end of 2017."
While the letter doesn’t use specific numbers,
news reports have said that the fan coil relocation will cost 600 U.S. jobs.
And there’s more to the story. The incoming administration was not able to work out a deal to prevent the closing of United Technologies' Huntington factory. So 700 of those jobs will be outsourced to Mexico.
So between the U.S. job losses at the factories in Carrier and Huntington, approximately 1,300 jobs will be moved to Mexico under the umbrella of United Technologies.
