Company, State At Odds Over Contract
A Foxconn executive says the company has been unable to recruit employees necessary for its development project in Wisconsin.
Alan Yeung, Foxconn`s director of United States Strategic Initiatives, said the company has traveled across the country, "from North Carolina, to Illinois, to Michigan, to Ohio and Kentucky" to attract talent to Wisconsin, but it has fallen short.
"Foxconn has been relentlessly visiting colleges around Wisconsin to recruit and hire professionals at the beginning of their careers for roles in Industrial Artificial Intelligence, Smart Manufacturing, 5G Networks and High-Performance Computing," Yeung wrote in a Nov. 18 letter to Joel Brennan, secretary of the state Department of Administration. "With the low unemployment rate, we have encountered great difficulties in recruiting the talents we need."...
Ken Notes: This scares me, the talent is there read Tom Still`s article below. This is also a cart before the horse argument because Foxconn does not yet have a factory to work in and their research facilities are not really up and running full speed. Again I fear they are looking for a graceful exit strategy where we are left blaming each other. Please put aside your differences and sit down and work out a doable Foxconn II agreement. No threats, no excuses, no exceptions...
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