Taiwan-based electronics manufacturer Foxconn is struggling to find enough skilled workers for its planned facility in Wisconsin and may bring in personnel from China, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.
The report said Foxconn, which makes devices and components for Apple and other tech firms, is facing a tight labor market for the manufacturing plant, which is getting some $3 billion in incentives from the midwestern state.
The company has pledged to hire 13,000 workers at the southern Wisconsin site, but some reports say the total may be lower as Foxconn scales back its initial plans.
They should offer American workers more festive suicide nets.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 07 2018, @01:54AM (3 children)
It looks like Wisconsin got fleeced. They gave away way too much without any real guarantees. Foxconn pulled a fast one before in Pennsylvania, but WI wanted to please Trump so badly that they gave Foxconn a $3B deal.
I guess the fine print in the agreement doesn't stipulate jobs for US workers, and Trump will wet himself handing out a factory full of H-1Bs just to claim job growth.
#SoThisIsWinning
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 07 2018, @02:37AM (2 children)
Promising not to rob someone is not the same as giving someone money.
(Score: 3, Funny) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday November 07 2018, @02:52AM
Go on A/C, tell us about the violently imposed monopoly again!
That one always gets a good laugh.
(Score: 2) by DutchUncle on Wednesday November 07 2018, @03:39PM
But they ARE giving someone money. It's not just future tax abatements. The state is sinking state taxpayer money RIGHT NOW into roads and infrastructure - money that Foxconn doesn't have to spend on construction that Foxconn doesn't have to construct.