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Re:TSMC is having more luck building in Japan than in America by somethoughts on Sunday February 25, 2024 @03:51PM (#39504616)
This is about temporarily allowing companies such as TSMC to bring in their specialized fab building construction companies to get these mega projects built on time instead of insisting on fully local non-specialized labor.

I think the key part of the proposal that you are missing is that it eventually (i.e. after a decade) gets rolled back to a normal economic zone and the special foreign privileges get rolled back.

What you want is just insist that a small contingent of local specialized project teams be allowed to shadow the foreign teams. Its a bit of a marshmallow test for unions.

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Re:TSMC is having more luck building in Japan than in America by CPLX on Sunday February 25, 2024 @03:59PM (#39504688)
That kind of thing already exists. It’s trivial for large and well resourced foreign companies to bring in specialized foreign teams to work alongside American workers.

What’s happening here is TSMC just wants to undercut local wages.

There are actually people who have gone in and done real reporting in the situation beyond reading press releases.

https://prospect.org/labor/2023-08-11-econ-commentators-tsmc...

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