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Apple-Supplier Foxconn To Announce New Factory in Wisconsin in Much-needed Win For Trump and Scott Walker (washingtonpost.com)
An anonymous reader shares a Washington Post report: Foxconn, one of the world's largest electronics manufacturers, will unveil plans Wednesday evening to build a new factory in southeastern Wisconsin (alternative source), delivering a much-needed win for President Trump and Gov. Scott Walker, according to four officials with knowledge of the announcement. The facility will make flat-screen displays and will be located in Southeast Wisconsin within House Speaker Paul Ryan's congressional district. It is not clear how many jobs would be created. Shortly after Trump was elected, Foxconn's chairman Terry Gou said his company would invest at least $7 billion in the United States and create between 30,000 and 50,000 jobs. If it follows through with that commitment, Foxconn would become a major employer on par with Chrysler. In April, Gou spent more than two hours at the White House.
I'm smelling... TAXBREAKS!
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"You want 8 hour work days AND 15 minute breaks? We're out"
And in more hushed news, Apple gets a $14 billion tax break to repatriate $50 billion from their offshore stash.
And in even later and more hushed news, Trumps companies get the contracts to build the $7 billion factory.
Is this the Foxconn plant in Wisconsin that's been on the drawing board since 2010?
I'll believe Foxconn is building a plant when Foxconn builds a plant. Otherwise it would not be the first time Foxconn makes an announcement like this and then when the focus is gone they forget the whole thing.
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You do know that Foxconn made a similar announcement in 2013 during the Obama Administration tregarding a plant in Pennsylvania.
https://www.cnet.com/news/foxc...
So yeah I think that could have easily happened since it fucking did.
If you want to know how this will probably end:
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Now admit you were wrong.
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non union / min wage / may need to be chipped and 39 hours a week on paper (so no benefits and by the time we open healthcare plan as well) But lots of OT needed. (living on site is preferred (nice low cost for that))
the Brat stop can use a nice lunch rush 24/7/365
Apple does not have any patents for LCD displays. it would probably cost them more to build a plant and license the various patents then sourcing them from the world leader.
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Winning doesn't always equal progressing.
Winning a competition doesn't mean you are the best, it just means you know how to play the game better.
For example I am a two year winning in my works Chili Cook-off. I win by making my Chili very hot. Because I know that the people who judge the chili do so in a small batch and compare it with other chili's. So when tried it is memorable, and full of flavor.
However... I never make such chili for my lunch or dinner, Because it is way to hot for sustained eating. I won by know how to play the cook-off game. not because I am a superior cook.
A lot of areas where country X is #1 it is often because there are factors in their reporting that makes them #1.
For education, many countries near the top on the standardize test scores. Have an education system that dumps students with low test scores to a vocational education path. So in essence dropping the poor performers and raising the score averages.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Thank god. The US was really falling behind with an an ever-growing suicidal worker gap. And now US high school students can also have "unpaid internships" working hours each day in factories to teach them valuable work skills, much like their Chinese contemporaries.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
My only complaint about the WaPo link was that it didn't connect; paywall. I couldn't even see the headline, which I suppose would at least have completed your sentence. Couldn't you have put in a few words of summary instead of just the link? Or could we have another link to a newspaper that isn't walled? Thx.
So Foxconn clearly doesn't NEED to build a plant in Wisconsin. They're doing fine with what they have, and presumably they could've built this plant in China where wages are lower.
So that really raises the question of how much this must've been worth to them politically to help Trump out. They must be getting a really sweet deal to do this. I love Apple and generally agree with their politics, but let's be totally clear here, they're not doing this out of the goodness of their hearts. And Foxconn is DEFINITELY not doing it for the enrichment of American workers because that's a thing they really feel committed to.
The link works for me in incognito mode. Is it possible that you have some adware installed that you don't know about?
Right? Because they treat their employees so badly, quite a lot find a jump from the roof preferable.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Besides there isn't any definitive word that this factory would make displays for Apple. Foxconn is an Apple supplier but they manufacture for many companies. The displays could be manufactured for LG or Samsung.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Deplorables with incomes? Ew. Deindustrialize.
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Yours is a ridiculously naive view of history. What we were too short-sighted to understand is that he who manufactures both gains the experience of manufacturing and gets to decide who he pays to develop. As an engineer, I work hand-in-hand with manufacturing. Without direct feedback, my engineering suffers. The best engineering and R&D is done by makers. For enlightenment, look at which country has the most engineers today, which has the fastest growth in R&D spending, etc.
In a totally unrelated story, the suicide rate in Wisconsin is at an all time high...
move in, take bunch of tax breaks that basically pay for the whole thing then leave in 5 years when the tax breaks run out. To be fair Carrier got the tax breaks and didn't even wait the 5 years.
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Most of the plant will be run in the dark by robots.
Have fun believing in the jobs, because they're like pipeline jobs, 99 percent disappear once it's built.
Oh, wait, did I burst your bubble?
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so it's ok When the Koch brothers do the same thing?
Don't compare the Koch brothers to George Soros. Soros doesn't spend anywhere near as much as those two.
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It's a one-story building, because Foxconn employees have the annoying habit to jump from the roof.
So Foxconn clearly doesn't NEED to build a plant in Wisconsin. They're doing fine with what they have, and presumably they could've built this plant in China where wages are lower.
You could say the same about foreign automakers.... yet Toyota, Hyundai, Subaru, etc. all have plants in the US.
Politics is always a consideration. But as with most business decisions, there are multiple benefits to consider. As automation improves, labor cost becomes less important. And as screens get larger, they become harder to ship. The panel and coverglass are the largest components. So I would expect Foxconn to import electronics from Asia and assemble panels in the US, using coverglass produced stateside by Corning, which is the leading supplier. And finally plastics: polyolefins from MTO in China is 5x the supply cost of polyolefins from ethane in the US. With half dozen world-scale plants coming online in the US in the next few years, plastics supply cost will be relatively cheap in the US.
So yeah, political reasons might have kicked it over the edge, but there are other considerations at play before a company invests billions of dollars.
Are you retarded, or have you knobbed too many dirty donkeys off on Massa Soros' ranch?
Good Christ - you're stupid!
With good internet connections they will be able to run and manage the robots remotely.
Thanks Trump!
The quote from Terry Gou about the possible number of jobs is misleading. There will not be 30,000 - 50,000 jobs involved for the plant in SE Wisconsin, more like 3000, if that many. Let's not conflate the possible economic benefits. I cite the report on PBS Newshour tonight to back my claims.
After all, that and the guard towers are what Foxconn is famous for, other than dirt cheap labor sleeping in rows in barracks with bunk beds.
This would be the Trump who had to drag McSame out of his death-bed just to get a vote to make a discussion to have a vote to take away healhcare?
Not much winnage in your windbag
Since FoxConn does not share their business strategy to show projected ROI on this Potential investment the sky is the limit on guessing rationales. Lower Costs = unlikely Strategic location = not to far from O'hare airport a mid-west hub, along with train freight and trucking highways so ok relative to East Coast but not a major advantage. A hedge against supply disruptions if political tensions arise seems possible though other countries could offer similar benefits cheaper except for the military might and USD. Terry Gou shrewdly prolonged negotiations with Sharp for concessions on contingencies and deteriorating situation at the Company. Think FoxConn will require some of the soft promises to be firmed up in writing befor proceeding full speed and until then move slowly ahead with awareness to Walker, Ryan and gang can walk away if favorable environment fades. Still a positive development for WI & US to be in the consideration phase but the tough work lies ahead getting factory built and producing. Motorola built a few nice plants in Northern Illinois including Galvin's hometown of Harvard the latter never fully ramped up and barely used before being shuttered. So things can change. A modest applause warranted now but save the yippees and yahoo bragging until there is some solid substance and economic benefits created.
Every country drop down selection box for shipping and customs disagrees with you.
Well I was going to come and apologize for the paywall link, but now, No, fuck you.
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