TOW #26 - Trump Saved Carrier Jobs. These Workers Weren't as Lucky

Donald Trump caused around 700 workers of carrier jobs to be lost. In Nelson D. Schwartz’s article, Trump Saved Carrier Jobs. These Workers Weren’t as Lucky. He wanted to preserve the carrier jobs to stay in Indiana instead of moving to Mexico. Unfortunately for every person working for a Carrier company, only 800 out of 1,400 jobs were saved. One of the branches, Huntington which was operated by UTEC was not as lucky as some of the other branches. Around 70% of the Huntington Count voted for President Donald Trump (New York Times) but now they have been deeply affected by Trump’s action during his first few months of presidency. Even when President Donald Trump admitted to keeping the Indianapolis plant open, the citizens didn’t blame him for not being able to save as many jobs as he could have saved. Tami Barnett, a worker at the Indianapolis branch, even admitted she was upset that her job wasn’t saved but she still fully supports President Trump as he still was able to save some jobs in the branch. Even though he was able to save Indianapolis, he was unable to save Huntington. The workers in this branch were greatly affected as many jobs were lost. Donald Trump was said in this article to have enjoyed working with the United Technologies, and will continue to work with major companies to try to increase “American manufacturing, job creation and economic growth” (White House Spokesman). By telling the American public, President Donald Trump brought reliance upon himself as he needs to strive to improve the working field of every American citizen.

            Schwartz appeals to pathos in order to make it clear that many jobs were lost in 2017, but there were also many jobs saved. Schwartz also addresses that even though people lost their jobs, they are still pleased with their choice of elected President Donald Trump as President of the United States. Even though they are upset with losing their jobs, they are happy that there were more jobs saved than lost. The author uses their emotion to address the problem Trump faced, and even though people were greatly affected by his decision, he still has an immense amount of supporters on his side even when their jobs were taken from them. They also appeal to logos to display to the audience the facts of how many jobs were actually saved and how many were lost. Trump was able to save 800 of the 1,400 jobs in a branch. This shows the audience that he was able to help more than hurt the people of the United States.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/23/business/economy/indiana-united-technology-factory-layoffs.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0