The same regulations impact every other air conditioning manufacturer as well.
Sen. Donnelly: Carrier never cited federal regulations as reason for move
Murdering American Manufacturing: ‘Strictly Business’
It's one reason and one reason only. U.S. employees make more than $3 an hour.
“U.S. employees make more than $3 an hour. “
Yes, due to statute, which is actually stronger than regulation.
Their reasons can be debated all day. When you come right down to it, if you think the company is doing the wrong thing, whether it’s Carrier, “Big Oil”, or insurance companies, etc., there’s nothing stopping you from getting together with a group of like minded people and opening YOUR OWN company and doing things the RIGHT way (at least, what you THINK is the right way).
Same goes for environmentalists, for example, when they worry about use of land. Given the money pouring into environmental causes, you’d think it’d be cheaper to just BUY the land in question and they can let all the critters roam around on it, etc..