Carrier says it will keep close to 1,000 jobs in Indianapolis

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The air conditioning and heating company Carrier announced Tuesday that it will keep close to 1,000 jobs slated to go to Mexico in Indianapolis.

On Twitter, Carrier said it was "pleased to have reached a deal" with Donald Trump and Mike Pence, the vice president-elect and governor of Indiana. A transition official told The Associated Press that Carrier officials, Trump, and Pence will announce the agreement in an event on Thursday. The company has 1,400 workers at its plant, meaning layoffs are still possible. "If they're saying they're going to retain 1,000 jobs, that would mean 400 are going away," Chuck Jones, president of United Steelworkers Local 1999, which represents Carrier workers, told The Indianapolis Star. The union has not yet been briefed on the deal, he said, and while they've been "trying to find out what that consists of, we haven't had any luck."

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.