It's a little bit of everything that stacked the deck against this plant. Everything from the location of their HQ and other facilities to costs of doing business in NYS (taxes + unions) made the decision to close this plant an easy one. If you notice, they are keeping the non-union technology positions in the area. It's just moving the union labor work to Mocksville, N.C. where the benefits are plenty.
What is absolute here is this has nothing to do with Trump and Higgins is a hack for suggesting it. But he is owned by labor so his actions are expected.