2017-07-21wishtv.com

We're learning most of those laid-off employees are still looking for work and the United Steelworkers Local 1999 said that reality is disappointing because these layoffs were more than a year in the making.

"And these people are leaving today and we haven't heard about that supposed $1 million plus that's supposed to go to these people," said TJ Bray, a spokesperson for the steelworkers union, said Thursday. "So we'd like to know what happened with that?

The city has pledged since April 2016 to use more than $1 million to help those workers losing their jobs. That's money Carrier returned in tax incentives to the city.

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Last November, Carrier agreed to keep about 800 jobs in Indiana in exchange for millions of dollars in state incentives.

More nativism political theater with tragic false promises underlying...



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