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Re:Wisconsin’s $4.1B Foxconn factory boondoggle by Forge36 on Monday October 29, 2018 @01:44PM (#18329438)
It was also billed as assembly line workers.

    >“If, six months ago, you asked me, what would be the mix of labor? I would pull out the experience that we have in China and say, ‘Well, 75 percent assembly line workers, 25 percent engineers and managers,’” Woo said. But “now it looks like about 10 percent assembly line workers, 90 percent knowledge workers.”
At ~6500 fewer assembly line workers. It's not helping Milwaukee nearly as much as promised
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Re:Wisconsin’s $4.1B Foxconn factory boondoggle by thrmsforbfast on Monday October 29, 2018 @02:21PM (#18329810)
Notes:

1. the percentages changed because the total numbers dropped. I.e., it's not like there's going to be a ton of white collar jobs. It's more like there aren't going to be a ton of jobs, period.

2. And even then, this is a Foxconn representative who has every incentive to mis-characterize. They're basically just saying whatever they think is best to say at the moment. Not even 3 months ago they were pushing hard on an ad campaign about manufacturing jobs. Then the projected manu salaries dropped and now they're saying that the avg salary will be higher because we'll hire so many tech people. All while hoping (1) gets lost in the exchange.

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