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> Are there US workers who should have been hired to do this factory-bootstrapping instead Yes. Of these companies [0], Hyundai-LG has been the only malcontent
by alephnerd 1y ago
> Are there US workers who should have been hired to do this factory-bootstrapping instead
Yes. Of these companies [0], Hyundai-LG has been the only malcontent
The European and Japanese manufacturers haven't done anything similar - only the Koreans are.
[0] - https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/06/tracking-the-ev-battery-factory-construction-boom-across-north-america/ https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/06/tracking-the-ev-battery-fa...
- blargey 1y agoThat link only lists some companies that have built factories (or are trying to), and nothing about how they were built.
- alephnerd 1y agoNot a single one of them have had an immigration raid like Hyundai-LG. It would have been MASSIVE news like the ongoing one if it happened. Hyundai has been notorious about this for decades in the US, like the ongoing child labor scandal [0] [0] - https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-immigration-hyundai/ https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-immi...