Trump's much-ballyhooed Wisconsin Foxconn plant may import Chinese workers for taxpayer-funded jobs
Source: RawStory
MARTIN CIZMAR
06 NOV 2018 AT 08:14 ET
A Wisconsin tech plant which has been hailed by President Donald Trump as a major step forward for American manufacturing is looking to bring in Chinese workers to staff the plant, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Foxconn Technology is a key supplier to Apple, and is opening a large new plant in the Midwest. The plant has been heavily subsidized with $3 billion in American tax dollars, potentially up to one million dollars per job. But with a tight market for qualified American workers, Foxconn is trying to tap Chinese engineers through internal transfers to supplement staffing.
Its very difficult to find skilled labor in our market, said a staffing agency near the plant. All the technical schools and local universities are gearing up their programs, but I still think Foxconn is going to fall short in terms of finding the people they need.
The companys plan is to bring in Chinese workers.
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/trumps-much-ballyhooed-wisconsin-foxconn-plant-may-import-chinese-workers-taxpayer-funded-jobs/
Fullduplexxx
(7,860 posts)riversedge
(70,204 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)to lie to the American people and then screw them over
justhanginon
(3,290 posts)do it again, it feels so good! They don't seem particularly bright.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)so like Walker.
irisblue
(32,971 posts),Its very difficult to find skilled labor in our market, said a staffing agency near the plant. All the technical schools and local universities are gearing up their programs, but I still think Foxconn is going to fall short in terms of finding the people"
Maybe Wanker Walker stripped the schools too well?
And why does this not suprise me much?
Racerdog1
(808 posts)How perfect is that. Elect a fucking clown, you get a circus. Wisconsin, wake the hell up.
LakeArenal
(28,817 posts)47% of Wisconsin has worked very hard to unseat Wanker. Twice
The Liberal Lion
(1,414 posts)Are you really telling me that schools like Case Western, MIT, or Carnegie Mellon aren't producing engineers qualified enough to work in this plant, but they can be found in CHINA! In China! I'm not trying to knock Chinese engineers, but for fucks sake, Case, MIT, CMU! Hell even my alma matter, Pitt, produces some mighty damn fine engineers.
This is unbelievable. If true, then gottdamn, America is truly fucked from an education point of view.
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)Last edited Tue Nov 6, 2018, 03:28 PM - Edit history (1)
Foxconn doesnt engineer anything. Its customers do that. You send all your engineering files to them and they turn them into products.
Foxconn needs assemblers...and right now, there are none in Wisconsin. They havent been needed before.
On this Im willing to meet them halfway. They can import 5000 skilled assemblers but they also have to set up assembler training programs at community colleges in Wisconsin and six other Midwest states that will train 1250 Americans per year, and at the end of each training cycle they have to repatriate 1250 Chinese assemblers to China.
Once the Foxconn plant is completely staffed with Americans, those training programs will be a big lure to other companies wanting to set up production in the US.
The Liberal Lion
(1,414 posts)7962
(11,841 posts)turbinetree
(24,695 posts)and that they are going to rape and pillage and create crime, sell drugs, and, and, and....................
Fuck that....................how many are spies from a fucking communist country...........that is already blackmailing industries, like in aviation, if you want to sell planes in our country you have to give us your technology.................fuck that ............
ROB-ROX
(767 posts)I did not see this coming, but it makes sense. You can not employ uneducated people in a highly technical place. California posted 130,000 people moved out of state last year. Most of those people were not highly educated. California gained more college educated then were lost. I see the local colleges are gearing up to educate people to work in technical plant. Good luck with that plan. They bet 3 billion and they LOST........Brilliant people conned by crooked corrupt republic - cons
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,490 posts)They can get staff from around the nation if they pay a good wage. If they bring in Chinese tech people, it's to save money.
Chinese businessmen would make highly qualified Republicans - they're experts at screwing the workers to save a dime.
........
allgood33
(1,584 posts)The GOP doesn't care about American workers.
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)voters KNOW NOW before they vote
CrispyQ
(36,461 posts)The corporations have been spewing that line since they first started outsourcing tech jobs. It's BS. People would move to the area for decent paying tech jobs. The operative words being "decent paying." The corpos just don't want to pay.
kimbutgar
(21,137 posts)So they would have the label made in Italy. I guess foxcon decided that it would also work in a
The repuke controlled state wisconsin.
dalton99a
(81,475 posts)Yeah, right
Bengus81
(6,931 posts)And let's spew the BS that ALL of them get $1 MILLION each of Guberment subsidized money. Yeah Trump,we can play the immigrant game too.
UpInArms
(51,282 posts)Its called the Reverse Midas Touch
Eugene
(61,881 posts)Source: The Verge
By Ashley Carman Nov 6, 2018, 12:10pm EST
The Wall Street Journal reported this morning that Foxconn is looking to transfer some of its Chinese workforce to Wisconsin in time for its new factory opening in Racine. These workers, the Journal reports, would likely be engineers and would fill a gap in prospective talent due to a tight labor market. Given that the entire deal with Foxconn hinged on the promise of new jobs for Americans, that would be an unwelcome surprise for many in Wisconsin.
In a comment to Gizmodo, Foxconn denied that it was recruiting Chinese workers. The company said:
We can categorically state that the assertion that we are recruiting Chinese personnel to staff our Wisconsin project is untrue. Our recruitment priority remains Wisconsin first and we continue to focus on hiring and training workers from throughout Wisconsin. We will supplement that recruitment from other US locations as required.
Weve reached out for independent comment and will update if we hear more.
In November 2017, Wisconsin pledged $3 billion in subsidies for the Taiwan-based company if it opted to open the factory in Wisconsin. In return, Foxconn said it would create 13,000 jobs and invest $10 billion. (The state subsidy came out to $230,000 per job.) The Wall Street Journal report suggests that the company is struggling to find qualified engineers in the area, though, as the unemployment rate in the state reached a record low at 3 percent, along with a recent national low at 3.7 percent.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/6/18068326/foxconn-wisconsin-factory-workers-china-transfer-engineers
dembotoz
(16,802 posts)time
they are not hiring because the fricken walls are not even up
Perseus
(4,341 posts)This is exactly what happened in Venezuela, and the next thing that happened is that all those Chinese people became citizens in a flash and were voting for Chavez, and they do it in a way that its a few Chinese here, then a few over there and so on, small numbers to make sure it escapes scrutiny.
Any moment now the man-child will want to bring Russian "professionals" in the medical industry, mining, technology, etc. as an "exchange", but USA citizens will not be going to Russia, just a few to serve as liaison between the two regimes.
Be very aware, this cannot be good.
cstanleytech
(26,291 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,490 posts)Link to tweet
Text:
Tim Bartik @TimBartik Nov 5
Tim Bartik Retweeted Noah Smith
Link to tweet
Text:
Noah Smith @Noahpinion
Why the heck would you do this instead of just having the government employ people directly?!
A lot of good discussion on this deal on both Bartik's and Smith's Twitter pages.......