<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;" class="">Huffington Post<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;" class="">United Technologies Just Got More Lucrative Government Contracts After Offshoring 1,000 Carrier Jobs to Mexico<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(117, 117, 117);" class="">04/25/2017 10:14 am ET </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66);" class=""><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/lori-wallach" style="color: purple;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); text-decoration: none;" class=""> Lori Wallach, Contributor </span></b><span style="color: rgb(125, 125, 125); text-decoration: none;" class="">Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch Director</span></a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(117, 117, 117);" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;" class=""><b class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Why Isn’t Trump Even Doing the Obvious to Stop Job Offshoring?<o:p class=""></o:p></span></i></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.133333206176758px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.600000381469727px; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">United Technologies, the firm President Donald Trump spotlighted with his threat to punish companies offshoring jobs, is moving more than 1,000 of its Indiana Carrier jobs to Mexico despite Trump’s intervention. Instead of punishment, since Inauguration Day the major defense contractor has been awarded new lucrative government contracts.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.133333206176758px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.600000381469727px; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.133333206176758px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.600000381469727px; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Really. Fifteen new contracts.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.133333206176758px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.600000381469727px; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.133333206176758px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.600000381469727px; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Cutting off firms from obtaining lucrative government contracts paid with taxpayers’ funds should be a no-brainer for a president who pledged to fight offshoring. And it’s much easier than the things Trump pledged to do and has not: slap taxes on the goods offshoring firms ship back here and introduce and <a href="https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/_landings/contract/O-TRU-102316-Contractv02.pdf" target="_blank" style="color: purple;" class=""><span style="color: black;" class="">move in his first 100 days</span></a> an “End the Offshoring Act.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.133333206176758px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.600000381469727px; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.133333206176758px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.600000381469727px; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Public Citizen and Good Jobs Nation dug through two massive government databases to investigate whether UT was a fluke, or many of the nation’s major contractors are offshoring. The findings in a new <a href="http://www.citizen.org/documents/GJN-GTW-Report-Federal-Contracting-With-Corporate-Offshorers-Continues-Final.pdf" target="_blank" style="color: purple;" class=""><span style="color: black;" class="">report</span></a> we released today are infuriating:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.133333206176758px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: 10.266666412353516px; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 16.133333206176758px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.600000381469727px; font-family: Symbol;" class="">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.600000381469727px; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Fifty-six percent of the top 50 federal contractors in fiscal year 2016 were certified under just one narrow U.S. government program as having engaged in offshoring<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.133333206176758px;" class=""><u class=""><span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: 10.266666412353516px; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></u></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 16.133333206176758px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.600000381469727px; font-family: Symbol;" class="">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.600000381469727px; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Forty-one of the top 100 FY 2016 contractors were certified as having offshored jobs. Those firms received a shopping $176 billion in taxpayer funded contracts in 2016, which adds up to more than a third of total contract spending for that year.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.133333206176758px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: 10.266666412353516px; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 16.133333206176758px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.600000381469727px; font-family: Symbol;" class="">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.600000381469727px; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Not only UT, but chronic job offshorer General Electric has obtained new lucrative contracts since Trump entered the White House. GE has offshored the largest number of jobs of any of the top 50 federal contractors, more than 8,700.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.133333206176758px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.600000381469727px; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.133333206176758px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.600000381469727px; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Trump’s inaction on this front is perverse given procurement policy is one of the most effective tools Trump has to counter offshoring. The U.S. government has a long tradition of using its contract spending – which currently adds up to $470 billion per year – to promote national policy goals. A share of federal government contracts must be awarded to small businesses and women- and minority-owned firms, and to qualify for government construction projects, firms must agree to pay workers prevailing wages.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.133333206176758px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.600000381469727px; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.133333206176758px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.600000381469727px; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">And a U.S. president also has broad powers to enact “policies and directives” for federal contracting without congressional legislation….<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.133333206176758px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.600000381469727px; font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi', sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66);" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.133333206176758px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.600000381469727px; font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi', sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66);" class="">READ REST OF PIECE AT: <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/58ff585be4b047ce3ee27c04" style="color: purple;" class="">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/58ff585be4b047ce3ee27c04</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.133333206176758px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.600000381469727px; font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi', sans-serif;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></div></body></html>