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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.
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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?
Unless they fly in there own laborers, having to deal with American labor is going to be hilarious to them.
"You want 8 hour work days AND 15 minute breaks? We're out"
I'd fire any robot that demanded such nonsense also. The only way this is going to be cost effective is if the vast majority of jobs aren't coming back and a handful of engineers and robot techs do the work of tens of thousands of assembly workers.
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.
Sorry, teleporters just kill you and then make a copy. A perfect, soul-less copy.
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.
Sorry, teleporters just kill you and then make a copy. A perfect, soul-less copy.
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
According to your own link, the worst year for suicides at Foxconn was 14 suicides out of 930,000 employees. This is substantially lower than the US suicide rate, which is 12.6 suicides per 100,000 people per year.
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.