Foxconn: Bait and Switch?

[Cheesy FL-Vol]

www.reuters.com/article/us-foxconn-wisconsin-exclusive/exclusive-foxconn-reconsidering-plans-to-make-lcd-panels-at-wisconsin-plant-idUSKCN1PO0FV

Foxconn Technology Group is reconsidering plans to make advanced liquid crystal display panels at a $10 billion Wisconsin campus, and said it intends to hire mostly engineers and researchers rather than the manufacturing workforce the project originally promised.

Foxconn, which received controversial state and local incentives for the project, initially planned to manufacture advanced large screen displays for TVs and other consumer and professional products at the facility, which is under construction. It later said it would build smaller LCD screens instead.



Now, those plans may be scaled back or even shelved, Louis Woo, special assistant to Foxconn Chief Executive Terry Gou, told Reuters. He said the company was still evaluating options for Wisconsin, but cited the steep cost of making advanced TV screens in the United States, where labor expenses are comparatively high.

How can a situation like this be addressed?

[Wisconsin Beth]

By letting them hire folks from the prisons to work there, so they can avoid paying even min. wage? 

[NastyWoman]

Looks like Wisconsin got "conn"ed

[Wisconsin Beth]

Jan 30, 2019 15:44:52 GMT -5 NastyWoman said:

Looks like Wisconsin got "conn"ed

I think a lot of us in SE Wisconsin have been waiting on the shoe to drop with Foxconn. 

[bean29]

Not sure, but I think they have to create jobs to get a lot of the $$. On the other hand, they majorly rolled back environmental regulations for them.