Showing posts with label offshoring jobs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label offshoring jobs. Show all posts

Monday, December 31, 2018

Trump is right: Hundreds of companies have announced they are returning the US. But not because of his policies. - Business Insider

President Donald Trump likes to say that foreign jobs are coming back to the United States. But is this another instance of his elocution style, "truthful hyperbole", or are hundreds of companies actually coming back to the US? ....
https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-12-26/trump-hypes-jobs-relocating-back-us-are-they

Tuesday, July 18, 2017

The Ultimate Hypocrisy? Trump Plan to Renegotiate NAFTA Resembles TPP Deal He Withdrew From

https://democracynow.org - The Trump administration has released their plans for renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement. Observers say they are surprisingly similar to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which Trump withdrew from in one of his first acts as president. As the White House kicks off its "Made in America"-themed week, labor leaders say the new NAFTA plan worsens protections for workers and would be "the ultimate in hypocrisy." "There’s enough vagueness in the descriptions that it’s unclear of the things that simply must be done," says Public Citizen’s Lori Wallach. She also notes that "[Trump] has refused to divest his business interests. He’s refused to disclose what his full investments are in Mexico and Canada."
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Saturday, May 6, 2017

The Great Job Exodus Is Upon Us: Trump's Promise to Save American Labor Is Already a Bust

One of the many impossible promises Donald Trump made on the campaign trail was that he, and he alone, would be able to stem the tide of American jobs moving overseas. Though it was on its face a lie as unbelievable and untenable as all the other lies, it only further solidified Trump’s “America First” bonafides with his base.

Fast-forward to nearly 100 days into Trump's presidency, and his casting of himself as a hybrid strongman-miracle worker seems only slightly less absurd than his supporters' continued belief in this invention. Not only has Trump not been the great job savior he proclaimed himself, but thousands of jobs continue to flow to places like Mexico and China....
http://www.alternet.org/labor/great-job-exodus-upon-us-trumps-promise-save-american-labor-already-bust


Monday, December 5, 2016

Slate: Trump’s Commerce Pick Has Offshored U.S. Jobs and Thinks a Couple Earning $50,000 Can Afford a Nanny

Nobody cares about the secretary of commerce—at least usually. The job is something a figurehead position, loosely tasked with promoting American industry, which typically involves a schedule packed with overseas photo ops.

Wilbur Ross will not be your usual commerce secretary. The billionaire private equity investor, who advised the Trump campaign and whom Donald Trump has picked to run what is usually an executive-branch backwater, may well end up being one of the most influential economic voices within the incoming administration....
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2016/12/01/meet_wilbur_ross_trump_s_commerce_secretary_pick_who_has_off_shored_u_s.html


Friday, June 10, 2016

Paging Trump! Convention Host Committee Chairs Tied To Offshore-Happy Corp

Donald Trump has built his presidential campaign on a promise to “Make America Great Again” by stopping corporate offshoring and reinvigorating the U.S. manufacturing industry.

But three of the four co-chairs of the host committee for the Republican National Convention, where Trump is expected to be named the party’s nominee in July, have ties to a corporation that has offshored hundreds of jobs in the past few years.

Their links to Eaton Corp., a global power management giant, highlight the ripe tension between the GOP establishment's free trade orthodoxy and the sweeping America-first rhetoric of the party's nominee—who, ironically, has been criticized for offshoring himself....
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/rnc-host-committee-offshoring-eaton-corp









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