Whirlpool Shifts Iowa Jobs to Mexico Amid Tariff Praise
Whirlpool is cutting about 341 jobs at its Amana, Iowa plant and shifting more work to Mexico, a move unions say signals a deliberate offshoring pattern even as the company praises Trump-era tariffs; the Amana plant workforce has dwindled from roughly 3,000 to about 1,300, while Whirlpool opened a Mexico facility and continues to cite tariff-driven investments as supporting US manufacturing, despite critics arguing tariffs raise costs and fail to stop job losses.