$3 billion in subsidies for 3,000 jobs.
http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2017/07/26/scott-walker-h...
Foxconn to Build $10B Factory in U.S
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#12Are the majority of these 13,000 jobs likely to be minimum wage?
What do u expect? It is Foxconn, it needs bloody labor not Google engineers.
The labor is technical, which at least in the U.S. usually carries higher wages. Chinese workers might be accustomed to low wages in technical jobs, but I don't see Joe Bob quitting his minimum wage burger-flipping job and go work at Foxconn assembling iPhones at minimum wage.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do u expect? It is Foxconn, it needs bloody labor not Google engineers.
Walmart and Amazon pay well above the minimum wage. It might be because they are so altruistic but I suspect they can't find labor worth keeping at that price. I imagine the same will be true for foxconn.
"Well above" isn't super meaningful. I believe Wal-mart's minimum pay is 9/hr and most employees are closer to 12-13. That's not going to be a livable wage in many areas. Add in that half of those are part time and not getting employee supplemented health insurance and it gets less livable.
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#14What, 13,000 factory workers? Foxconn isn't going to use mostly robots? Gou has said he wants to get rid of the "animals" in his plants.
They would love to use mostly robots. It's political decision, not economic one.
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#15I find it hard to believe that they won't automate it to the max. They've started to do it in china, why wouldn't they do it here where labor is more expensive and the factory is brand new. Foxconn has been manufacturing for a long time and they are looking to reduce costs not increase them by building in the US. Automation is the best way. I bet the jobs are not long term. Some jobs are better than none but don't pa…
They don't want to have problems with current US administration and Trump wants factories, so they give him factories.
Re: Foxconn to Build $10B Factory in U.S
#16I find it hard to believe that they won't automate it to the max. They've started to do it in china, why wouldn't they do it here where labor is more expensive and the factory is brand new. Foxconn has been manufacturing for a long time and they are looking to reduce costs not increase them by building in the US. Automation is the best way. I bet the jobs are not long term. Some jobs are better than none but don't pa…
They don't want to have problems with current US administration and Trump wants factories, so they give him factories.
Meaning the automation starts as soon as Trump leaves.
Re: Foxconn to Build $10B Factory in U.S
#17$3 billion in subsidies for 3,000 jobs. http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2017/07/26/scott-walker-h...
$1,000,000 per job seems like a staggering subsidy.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
They don't want to have problems with current US administration and Trump wants factories, so they give him factories.
Meaning the automation starts as soon as Trump leaves.
No, it means it starts on day one. As with Carrier, Trump wants things he can announce, but once he's gotten an announcement out of it his interest is done.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do u expect? It is Foxconn, it needs bloody labor not Google engineers.
The labor is technical, which at least in the U.S. usually carries higher wages. Chinese workers might be accustomed to low wages in technical jobs, but I don't see Joe Bob quitting his minimum wage burger-flipping job and go work at Foxconn assembling iPhones at minimum wage.
If that is the case, then they will deploy robots, use few human supervisors to oversee the work. Don't expect it will bring their giant manufacturers pipeline here. It is not going to be profitable for them. Why, because Chinese people are cheaper, and for manufacturing, meaning assembling, your output is directly associated with your working time, where in China they can force workers to work 12 hours, here no chance they could do that.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
3,000 workers according to Foxconn. The trump administration has said it could create up to 13,000 over the coming years, so who knows what that really means...
I heard on the news that 10,000 construction jobs would be created, so perhaps both are right - 10,000 temporary construction jobs, and 3,000 permanent/plant jobs.
Counting temporary construction jobs as permanent seems a little misleading.