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Early Reactions to Carrier Deal to Keep Jobs in U.S.

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News and social media outlets are buzzing Wednesday with the news that Donald Trump has reached a deal with Carrier Corp. to keep about 850 jobs in the U.S.

For most of the 1,400 workers faced with losing their jobs once the company, which manufactures gas furnaces in Indianapolis, moved its operations to Mexico in 2017, the news feels like a huge victory.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/803805823503925250

We have been following this story for months now and even went out to Indianapolis to speak with workers who were blindsided with the news that the job they planned to retire from was closing up shop for cheaper labor outside the U.S.

Following this latest development, we reached out to TJ Bray, one of the previous workers we spoke with in Indianapolis, to find out what he thought about the deal and what he’s going to do next.

We also looked at more reactions to the deal from employees and the union.

As we await the details of the deal, which are expected to be revealed Thursday, we can’t help but watch the conversation going on on the internet and everyone’s reaction to it. Some facts to consider:

  • Carrier’s parent United Technologies reaps $5.6 billion in revenue making Pratt & Whitney jet engines for the Pentagon.
  • While Carrier is symbolic of the diminishing manufacturing workforce in the Rust Belt, the top 10 employers in Indianapolis all are in the medical/healthcare field and employ nearly 83,000 workers.

Some see this as a battle victory in the war against outsourcing:

https://twitter.com/Marino4Congress/status/803943649432236032

https://twitter.com/ChristiChat/status/803774514723168256

https://twitter.com/immigrant4trump/status/803792037166321664

While others see it through a different lens, one that is looking at the bigger picture:

https://twitter.com/jesseberney/status/803946487759642624

What we don’t want to do at WorkingNation is jump to any conclusions before we hear the details, and we do have a number of questions that we plan to address in the coming days as we learn more including:

  • Is this news a relief for workers or a wake-up call?
  • What does the landscape look like for the 1,000 employees who will remain?
  • How does this affect other companies around the area and the country, both in manufacturing and in other industries?

In the meantime, we plan to watch this development very closely and continue our mission of addressing issues like this in a way that provides the most benefit to the worker and the workforce for the long-term. More in the days to come.

Dana Beth Ardi

Executive Committee

Dana Beth Ardi, PhD, Executive Committee, is a thought leader and expert in the fields of executive search, talent management, organizational design, assessment, leadership and coaching. As an innovator in the human capital movement, Ardi creates enhanced value in companies by matching the most sought after talent with the best opportunities. Ardi coaches boards and investors on the art and science of building high caliber management teams. She provides them with the necessary skills to seek out and attract top-level management, to design the ideal organizational architectures and to deploy people against strategy. Ardi unearths the way a business works and the most effective way for people to work in them.

Ardi is an experienced business executive and senior consultant who leverages business organizational transformation through talent strategies. She uses her knowledge and experience to develop talent strategies to enhance revenue and profit contributions. She has a deep expertise in change management and organizational effectiveness and has designed and built high performance cultures. Ardi has significant experience in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, IPO’s and turnarounds.

Ardi is an expert on the multi-generational workforce. She understands the four intersecting generations of workers coming together in contemporary companies, each with their own mindsets, leadership and communications styles, values and motivations. Ardi is sought after to assist companies manage and thrive by bringing the generations together. Her book, Fall of the Alphas: How Beta Leaders Win Through Connection, Collaboration and Influence, will be published by St. Martin’s Press. The book reflects Ardi’s deep expertise in understanding organizations and our changing society. It focuses on building a winning culture, how companies must grow and evolve, and how talent influences and shapes communities of work. This is what she has coined “Corporate Anthropology.” It is a playbook on how modern companies must meet challenges – culturally, globally, digitally, across genders and generations.

Ardi is currently the Managing Director and Founder of Corporate Anthropology Advisors, LLC, a consulting company that provides human capital advisory and innovative solutions to companies building value through people. Corporate Anthropology works with organizations, their cultures, the way they grow and develop, and the people who are responsible for forming their communities of work.

Prior to her position at Corporate Anthropology Advisors, Ardi served as a Partner/Managing Director at the private equity firms CCMP Capital and JPMorgan Partners. She was a partner at Flatiron Partners, a venture capital firm working with early state companies where she pioneered the human capital role within an investment portfolio.

Ardi holds a BS from the State University of New York at Buffalo as well as a Masters degree and PhD from Boston College. She started her career as professor at the Graduate Center at Fordham University in New York.