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title: "Workers decry Whirlpool’s job cuts amid offshoring, praise of Trump’s tariffs"
type: "News"
locale: "en"
url: "https://longbridge.com/en/news/277028614.md"
description: "Workers at Whirlpool are expressing discontent over job cuts at an Iowa plant while the company increases production in Mexico. Despite supporting Donald Trump’s tariff policies, which were intended to strengthen US manufacturing, the job reductions raise concerns about the effectiveness of these trade policies in benefiting American workers."
datetime: "2026-02-26T11:13:16.000Z"
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# Workers decry Whirlpool’s job cuts amid offshoring, praise of Trump’s tariffs

Workers at Whirlpool, the US’s largest appliance manufacturer and a champion of Donald Trump’s tariff policies, are criticizing the company for cutting jobs at an Iowa plant while bolstering production in Mexico. The job cuts at Whirlpool come as the company has continued to support the Trump administration’s trade policies and claimed they will help bolster US manufacturing. Trump’s trade policies appear to have done little for US manufacturing...

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