Posted on 07/03/2023 4:11:52 PM PDT by anthropocene_x
The chipmaking giant, which expects to receive up to $15 billion in federal tax credits and grants for its Arizona facility, says U.S. workers are not up to the job.
The world’s largest contract chipmaker will import hundreds of workers from Taiwan to help build its sprawling new facility in Phoenix, Arizona, the company announced on Thursday.
The news comes a week after the Prospect published an investigation of labor problems plaguing the TSMC site, which currently employs over 12,000 contract workers. Some described life-threatening injuries, while others detailed setbacks in construction that they alleged were caused by non-union contractors. The company has refused to sign an agreement with local labor groups, which union leaders say would help secure a reliable workforce.
The White House has said that the CHIPS Act, like other recent investment packages, was intended to bring good-paying union manufacturing jobs back onshore.
A Department of Commerce spokesperson declined to comment on whether the CHIPS program would consider TSMC’s reliance on migrant workers as it evaluates the company’s application for federal subsidy, saying the department cannot weigh in on potential applicants.
(Excerpt) Read more at prospect.org ...
Must be all those lazy millennials not wanting to work!
Arizona should have had an American job protection built in the generous tax break scheme.
When the US policy is to create the lowest educated work force in the world, it should be expect that many US citizens are unqualified to work in their own country.
Sounds to me like they are trying to avoid the constant hassle of dealing with union employees
USA is now so gone that any effort to actually bring back manufacturing fails because of lack of skilled employees, inability to get along with unions, management incompetence and greed...
America’s Decline and Fall: Gradually, then suddenly.
That is the dynamic of America at this point. Why would US companies invest in schools and the people of America when they can import brains and export labor, there is no reason to.
So TSMC lowers their logistical costs and lead times to their buyers and gets to keep most of their production costs in the family while the US gets no benefit at all.
I don’t know of any unions active in the tech industry. I could be wrong.
Jo Jo said they could bring them here as long as he gets to sniff their children once a week.
Evacuating Taiwan then letting China take over?
How about hiring Americans to do jobs in America?
Oh, sorry. Just kidding. 😂
See you at the bill signing! /W
(America’s Decline and Fall: Gradually, then suddenly.)
Very few care. Until it comes knocking at their door 🚪.
I don’t think anyone will be able to afford new vehicles eventually.
I don’t even bother to look anymore.
The Prospect is a Communist rag
Good for them.
True of every Western country, especially the Anglosphere.
I look at Canada, even more culturally leftist and depraved than the USA, but a supermajority of the population cheering it on, as long as house prices keep going up, and they can borrow against those gains.
TSMC has a large team of experienced, specialty workers who are expert at building chip manufacturing facilities.
We don’t.
Many are going to be shocked, wondering how all that new-found wealth suddenly disappeared.
I was waving my arms in 2008.
My warnings were immediately dismissed by my idiot liberal boss (redundant, I know).
Less than 4 years later, that company no longer existed.
It had been around for roughly 100 years, prior to that.
No, as usual, I don't mention who it was.
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How much TSMC is paying?
A lot of highly paid talent at Intel in the Phoenix area.
Wonder if TSMC compensation is competitive with what Intel is paying.
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