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Foxcon, MAGA? Not so Fast

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Maybe this is the Right Wing Wet Dream...

"Work in general at Foxconn is extremely taxing, extremely monotonous and has an extremely high burnout rate," said Keegan Elmer, a researcher at the Hong Kong-based China Labor Bulletin.

The company has also been accused of undercutting minimum wage laws and benefits protections by hiring young "interns," some of them underage high school students, to work on production lines.

In 2012, New York-based China Labor Watch found children as young as 14 were forced to work in Foxconn factories by technical colleges or they would not graduate. An audit of the company by the Fair Labor Association found that "in 2011, 2.7% of the workforce of Foxconn Group consisted of interns, an average of 27,000 interns per month."

Foxconn invests in Wisconsin: Workers 'should be wary' - Jul. 27, 2017
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The rest of us? Not so much.
 
Are they including worker "suicide nets?"
 
Besides the above, Foxcon's numbers seem to differ from Trump's. Foxcon claim's they will add 3K jobs, not the 13K Trump is claiming.

Also, Foxcon has been saying this and claimed they were planning this since 2013, trying to decide upon which state.

And Foxcon has promised jobs in the States like this before, and failed to deliver.

So count me as skeptical, especially if it comes out of Trump's mouth!
 
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