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Tesla's New Factory Project Imported Foreign Laborers (mercurynews.com)
An anonymous reader writes: "Overseas contractors are shipping workers from impoverished countries to American factories, where they work long hours for low wages, in apparent violation of visa and labor laws," reports the Bay Area Newsgroup. For example, "About 140 workers from Eastern Europe, mostly from Croatia and Slovenia, built a new paint shop at Tesla's Fremont plant, a project vital to the flagship Silicon Valley automaker's plans to ramp up production of its highly anticipated Model 3 sedan..."
This "hidden workforce" arrives on B1/B2 visas, which federal authorities acknowledge are subject to "widespread abuse" in Silicon Valley. The newspaper reviewed visa, court, and payroll documents, and conducted dozens of interviews, identifying Tesla's small third-party Slovenian subcontractor ISM Vuzem as the company who ultimately recruited many of the workers.
While most of the imported workers were happy with their wages, one worker was earning the equivalent of $5 an hour while his American counterpart was earning as much as $52, and they worked 10-hour days -- without overtime -- up to seven days a week.
This "hidden workforce" arrives on B1/B2 visas, which federal authorities acknowledge are subject to "widespread abuse" in Silicon Valley. The newspaper reviewed visa, court, and payroll documents, and conducted dozens of interviews, identifying Tesla's small third-party Slovenian subcontractor ISM Vuzem as the company who ultimately recruited many of the workers.
While most of the imported workers were happy with their wages, one worker was earning the equivalent of $5 an hour while his American counterpart was earning as much as $52, and they worked 10-hour days -- without overtime -- up to seven days a week.
Well America is much better at efficiency than other countries.
- right, Americans are better at efficiency... are they? Efficiency is ability to do more but cheaper. Are Americans better at efficiency if companies are specifically leaving (and so many left) to make their production cheaper? Americans today are horrendous at efficiency because their government made them absolutely inefficient. As to what makes a person efficient - capital savings and investment into labour saving devices.
To be a very efficient worker you are not going to swing your arms at a much higher rate if all you have is a shovel. You will need an excavator to be as efficient as a few hundred people with shovels. However America has destroyed its savings and capital investment pool with inflation (money printing) and taxes and regulations and it's not at all efficient based on work of any average labourer. Businesses that are still in the USA may be efficient because they hire fewer and fewer labourers and thus they are subject to less regulations and taxes, but they are not efficient because all of a sudden an American worker can do more with his powerful hands and powerful mind than a German or a Chinese worker.
You can't handle the truth.