Hyundai and LG’s battery plant is just one of 20 sites under construction in the US by a South Korean company.
Treated like criminals, yet they still want to do business in the States?
Disgraceful. Pull out of there while you can.
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Billions of dollars have been invested for it. Shareholders would destroy them if they pulled out now. Because shareholders don't give a fuck about anything other than profits.
You may want to look into Korean business culture sometime. Protip: it's not American.
Those profits are risky now. The plants are Dead
Monies to good same reason countries are folding to trump on things you wouldn't think they would. The American market is to big to miss out on.
And seeing how things have been going with Trump, do they believe that their assets in America won't be seized one day or another? Because it's entirely in the realm of possibilities.
"It's our factory now."
Trump's plan to bring more manufacturing jobs to the US:
Step 1. Allow other countries to build factories on US soil
Step 2. Raid the factories and deport employees
Step 3. ???
Step 4. Profit
time to go to CANADA or mexico where you wont get raided.
No s***. Nearly 500 workers getting grabbed followed 300 of them being sent home should delay if not end the project.
i would just pull out all of them, and send them to mexico, canada.
Hmm I wonder how much the ICE vehicle makers paid Trump for his ICE Gestapo.
Say it like a real red meat 'Merican!
It's Gazpacho!
It sure is obvious where their priorities lie, very sad.
Mixed feelings on that, tbh. They were circumventing worker visa laws by shipping in and out people on visitor visas, but the current laws on that are kind of awful and, I mean, it's fucking ICE. Fuck ICE.
Were they really? 'Cause at least one lawyer representing some of the Koreans said they were fully within the law for a B-1 visa.
What's your source for them "circumventing worker visa laws"? Is it more or less credible than a lawyer actively involved in the case?
If you have zero battery plants or workers that know how to operate a battery plant, the first step is to bring in experts to build and then train your workers.
How do Americans plan on getting a Hyundai battery plant built without having people from Hyundai (a Korean company) come over to set it up the way that would get it to the same standard as their Korean factories?
They should empty the building and roll all the equipment down to Mexico or up to Canada so a country that wants a good relationship with other countries.
Mexico would probably be a better idea so that they can be better positioned to get electric vehicles down into South America.
Work visas? But yeah, I don't know why any foreign country would invest in this shithole country these days. Wait and see if it gets a little more sane in a decade or two.
IMO there was a better way to handle it than a raid given the circumstances.
Same feelings. Hyundai isn't the good guy here, bit OTOH, fuck ICE and fuck Georgia. And I say that as a Southerner. Pull the whole fucking plant, shut it down, eat the costs, tell Trump to fuck himself. FFS, will no one fight this man?!
Hyundai wouldn't have to skirt immigration law if the laws were reasonable, so I can't really fault them at all.