The story of Carrier Corporation has become such a staple of Donald Trump’s speeches that it’s almost synonymous with his campaign.
“We love Carrier,” Trump said. “Do you love Trump?”
The audience cheered.
Back in February, Carrier announced that it was closing its plant in Indiana and moving 1,400 jobs to Mexico—a move that sparked protests. However, just because Trump has used the Carrier workers as props at speeches all across Indiana, that doesn’t mean the Carrier workers have that great an opinion of Trump.
“He’s full of shit,” Tay Walker, 52, another Carrier worker, told me. ...
In fact, in a dozen interviews with Carrier workers at the rally, members of United Steelworkers Local 1999, I couldn’t find a single Trump supporter, though workers told me they existed. “There are a few people out there that support him,” Staples said. But by and large, they see in Trump the same kind of corporate greed that led Carrier executives to outsource their own jobs.
But there's a candidate they like better.
Back at the Statehouse, days after the Trump event, hundreds of Carrier workers descended on the city’s downtown around noon for a March and Rally for Good Jobs in Indianapolis, and they were clamoring for their candidate, the man of the hour.
But their candidate wasn’t Trump. It was Bernie Sanders, whom their union had endorsed days earlier. They wore “Labor for Bernie” buttons.