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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Trump beat Clinton by less than a point in Wisconsin. Since then, Democrat Tony Evers squeaked out a win for governor against Republican incumbent Scott Walker. That should firmly place the state in the “swing” column.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">As a resident of next-door Minnesota, the symbol that most represents Wisconsin is the ubiquitous cheesehead.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The fact that an entire state—but especially its Packer fans—have associated themselves with the dairy industry tells you just how important cows are in Wisconsin. All kidding aside, that suggests that this is really bad news.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Wisconsin is known as “America’s Dairyland,” but the milk makers who gave the state its moniker are vanishing, falling prey to a variety of impediments, including President Trump and his global trade war.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Over the past two years, nearly 1,200 of the state’s dairy farms have stopped milking cows and so far this year, another 212 have disappeared, with many shifting production to beef or vegetables. The total number of herds in Wisconsin is now below 8,000 — about half as many as 15 years ago. In 2018, 49 Wisconsin farms filed for bankruptcy — the highest of any state in the country, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Racine, Wisconsin, located in the southeastern part of the state on the shore of Lake Michigan, isn’t known for cows.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> </font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Racine County area was once among the wealthiest in the state, credited with inventing products from the garbage disposal to malted milk, and home of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed headquarters of SC Johnson, maker of Pledge, Raid and Drano. The county lost major employers with the manufacturing decline. The city of Racine has one of the state’s highest poverty rates.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Early in his presidency, Trump promised Racine a megadeal with the Taiwanese firm  Foxconn, which was slated to bring 13,000 jobs to the area. The state of Wisconsin offered $2.85 billion in tax credits, while the city and county mortgaged their future and borrowed around $350 million to buy land and make infrastructure improvements.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Contractors have bulldozed about 75 homes in Mount Pleasant and cleared hundreds of farmland acres. Crews are widening Interstate 94 from Milwaukee to the Illinois state line to accommodate driverless trucks and thousands of employees.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On Foxconn’s part, here is the latest.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">As of Dec. 31, the Taiwanese manufacturing giant, famous as an Apple Inc. supplier, had spent only $99 million, 1% of its pledged investment, according to its latest state filings. The company projected as many as 2,080 in-state employees by the end of 2019 but had fewer than 200 at last year’s end, state filings show. The village is still awaiting factory building plans for review. Locals said Foxconn contractors have recently been scarce on the site.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Lately, Foxconn representatives aren’t even showing up at town hall meetings to discuss the project.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">You have to wonder how much the residents of a state like Wisconsin can take from Republicans before they realize that they’ve been duped.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Amazon employee suicide threats tied to ‘dehumanizing’ workplace conditions at warehouses</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The three were Donald Trump, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Terry Gou, the chairman of Foxconn, a Taiwanese electronics conglomerate. They were in a vacant lot in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, doing a PR groundbreaking of a new plant that Foxconn promised would hire thousands of blue-collar workers to make flat-screen televisions.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">For Trump, the photo was proof that he was delivering on his campaign promise to ignite a made-in-the-USA manufacturing renaissance in the hard-hit upper Midwest. Actually, the renaissance was being ignited by a huge bundle of cash. Walker, who was up for re-election, was giving away a whopping $4 billion from Wisconsin’s tax fund to lure the wily Foxconn to the Badger State. But picky, picky. This was a day of celebration and self-congratulation among the three jolly guys in ties doing the PR photo-op. With typical modesty, Trump hailed the deal as “the eighth wonder of the world.”</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Less than a year later, though, it was revealed that the three had been shoveling BS. Oops. In January, Foxconn quietly backed away from its promise of all those factory jobs, declaring that “the global market environment … has changed.” A top assistant to Chairman Gou conceded: “In terms of TV, we have no place in the U.S. We can’t compete (with cheap-labor Asian Corporations).” Having already pocketed much of Walker’s bribe money, Foxconn said it was downsizing its project from a mass production blue-collar factory to some sort of high-tech operation hiring an unspecified number of engineers and designers.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">It turns out that the Taiwanese giant has a history of reneging on its grandiose schemes, including failing to deliver on a Pennsylvania factory it promised in 2013. Meanwhile, Foxconn is right that the environment has changed — Walker was defeated, Wisconsinites are in an uproar over both his extravagant giveaway and the corporation’s sudden back away, the new Democratic governor is asking pointed questions, and Trump’s slaphappy zigzags on tariffs has roiled the whole high-tech market.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">When you see a picture of politicians shoveling the people’s tax dollars into corporate coffers, the only sure thing is that the people are being played for suckers.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The undisputed king of shoveling (aka scamming taxpayers) is the digital retail colossus of Amazon. But even the king can sometimes get a comeuppance from determined commoners, and a hardy band in New York is delivering an old-line message to the online power: Don’t count your subsidized chickens before they hatch.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">For a couple of decades, CEO Jeff Bezos built Amazon’s monopolistic market might (and a $120 billion personal fortune for himself) by illegally dodging sales taxes that other retailers paid. A few years ago, though, the law was onto Bezos, so he switched from dodging local taxes to demanding that local governments subsidize his coast-to-coast expansion. His big coup was his HQ2 scheme — creating an embarrassing nationwide scramble by local and state officials to throw bundles of their taxpayers’ money at Bezos in hopes he’d choose their town as Amazon’s “second corporate headquarters.”</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">A “winner” in this corporate shakedown was New York, with the governor and New York City’s mayor promising to give $3 billion in taxpayer subsidies to one of the richest corporations in the world. An absurdly exultant Governor Andrew Cuomo gushed that “I’ll change my name to Amazon Cuomo if that’s what it takes.”</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">So that was that — except it wasn’t! A grassroots rebellion, backed by key state senators and city council leaders, has dared to talk back to the Amazonians and politicos who cut the sweetheart giveaway, citing the giant retailer’s well-documented abuse of workers. The king was mightily offended to be questioned, dispatching Brian Huseman, the company’s vice president for public policy, to declare haughtily that “we want to invest in a community that wants us.” Hello … you’re asking the community to invest in you, with no promise of fair treatment for the community. Indeed, asked if Amazon would be neutral if its New York employees chose to unionize, the lobbyist barked: “No, sir.”</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Billionaire Bezos is now resorting to the last refuge of corporate scoundrels: a PR campaign to convince New Yorkers that his behemoth is a sweetheart. As proof, he’s offering to hire 30 public housing residents to be customer service agents — 30. Out of 400,000 low-income New Yorkers living in public housing.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">You can say some negative things about New Yorkers, but generally speaking they’re not going to be suckers for anyone — not even Bezos.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Trump tweets that Foxconn debacle is ‘great news’  — even when the headline calls it ‘damage control’</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Earlier this week, electronics giant Foxconn pulled a major bait-and-switch in Wisconsin. President Donald Trump and former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker had claimed that the Foxconn deal would bring thousands of new manufacturing jobs to Wisconsin, but Foxconn’s Louis Woo (a special assistant to Foxconn CEO Terry Gou) told Reuters that instead, the new facility would offer mostly white-collar research, tech and engineering jobs.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On Friday, CNBC published an article with the headline, “Foxconn does damage controlover Wisconsin factory” — yet when Trump linked to the article on Twitter, he claimed victory: “Great news on Foxconn in Wisconsin after my conversation with Terry Gou!”</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">But as journalist Aaron Rupar noted on Twitter, the information in the CNBC article is hardly great news for Wisconsin’s blue-collar workers.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Rupar tweeted, “The headline of the story Trump describes as ‘great news’ is, ‘Foxconn does damage control over Wisconsin factory,’ and the article makes clear the company hasn’t committed to creating a single manufacturing job in Wisconsin.”</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">When Trump and Walker announced the Foxconn deal in 2017, they insisted it would be a major victory for blue-collar workers in Wisconsin — and billions of dollars in tax incentives were offered to lure Foxconn to that midwestern state. Foxconn, according to this week’s announcements, still plans to do business in Wisconsin. But the electronics giant has made it clear that instead of creating numerous jobs for blue-collar workers in that Rust Belt state, the jobs will be mainly white-collar jobs that typically require a college degree.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">MSNBC’s Chris Hayes weighed in on the Foxconn damage control, sarcastically tweeting, “They are also announcing a bridge for sale.”</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Wisconsin is an important state for Trump. Although Wisconsin had been considered a solid blue state, Trump pulled off a shocking upset when he won it in 2016. Not since President Ronald Reagan in 1984 had a Republican carried Wisconsin in a presidential election, and a big part of Trump’s Rust Belt strategy — which also brought unexpected wins in Pennsylvania and Michigan — was a heavy emphasis on bringing blue-collar manufacturing jobs back to the United States. And the Foxconn deal was promoted as Trump fulfilling one of his main campaign promises.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On June 29, 2018, Trump boasted on Twitter, “The new plant being built by Foxconn in Wisconsin is incredible. Congratulations to the people of Wisconsin and to Governor Scott Walker @GovWalker and his talented representatives for having pulled it off. Great job!”</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">It remains to be seen how well Trump will perform in the 2020 election, but one thing’s for sure: He won’t be able to campaign on persuading Foxconn to bring thousands of new factory jobs to Wisconsin.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On Wednesday, Taiwanese electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn dropped a bombshell on Wisconsin: their $10 billion new campus in the state will not be devoted primarily to manufacturing LCD screens as promised. Instead, it will be used primarily for research and packaging.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The company insists that it still plans to create the 13,000 jobs it promised when it initially announced the project — but this shift means that far fewer of these will be the blue-collar factory jobs that were supposed to boost Wisconsin’s manufacturing sector.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">This bait-and-switch is a blow from beyond the political grave to former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who when he first announced the deal in 2017, was supposed to be his key to a third term and was frequently hyped by President Donald Trump.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">From the moment the Foxconn deal was brokered, it was controversial. The price tag for the state of $3 billion did not seem to justify 13,000 jobs — that works out to $230,000 of taxpayer money spent on each $54,000 job created. And that was not all Wisconsin was giving up for the project — Walker worked hand in hand with then-EPA administrator Scott Pruitt to exempt Foxconn from environmental laws, possibly threatening the health of locals. It did not help matters that Foxconn has a history of broken promises — one plant they promised to build in Pennsylvania never happened — and of using robots instead of workers.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">As the Foxconn deal cratered in polls, Democrats turned what was to be Walker’s trump card into a millstone around his neck, hammering it as a con job. Walker ultimately lost re-election to superintendent of public instruction Tony Evers.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Foxconn saga is a cautionary message for politicians around the country: economic development incentives which do not properly vet the businesses and projects they’re trying to promote can end in disaster, and this is by no means limited to Walker and the GOP. Utah and New Jersey have also both had oversight problems when handing out tax breaks to developing businesses, there has long been a “border war” of businesses in Kansas City gaming tax breaks between Kansas and Missouri, and New York City’s deal to receive Amazon’s second headquarters is expensive and exacerbates the city’s housing issues for unclear benefit.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Politicians who want to bring jobs to their state should look to Walker as an example of what not to do.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">By Jake Johnson / Common Dreams November 6, 2018, 12:56 PM GMT</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">1.3K</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Wisconsin's Koch-funded Republican Gov. Scott Walker lavished the Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn with over four billion in taxpayer subsidies last year in a deal that he claimed would create 13,000 jobs in the state, but that agreement is increasingly looking like a massive con-job amid new reports on Tuesday that Foxconn is planning to bring in Chinese workers to fill spots that the governor insisted would be filled by Wisconsinites.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"If Foxconn has to import Chinese engineers to Wisconsin, that would be yet another insult to Wisconsin taxpayers," Greg LeRoy, executive director of Good Jobs First, told Common Dreams. "This is already The Great Disappearing Jobs Deal of recent U.S. history. It's also the biggest mega-subsidy deal ever given to a foreign-based company. How tone-deaf would it be if the best-paid jobs don't even go to Wisconsin taxpayers?"</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">According to the Wall Street Journal, Foxconn "is considering bringing in personnel from China to help staff a large facility under construction in southern Wisconsin as it struggles to find engineers and other workers in one of the tightest labor markets in the U.S."</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">President Donald Trump and outgoing House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) have both openly championed the Foxconn agreement as a boon for Wisconsin workers. Last year, Trump took credit for convincing Foxconn to build a factory in Wisconsin.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"The company, the Taiwanese supplier to Apple Inc., has been trying to tap Chinese engineers through internal transfers to supplement staffing for the Wisconsin plant," the Journal reported, citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter. "Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou is looking to company engineers in China to transfer."</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">While Foxconn issued a statement denying the Journal's reporting, critics of Walker—who is locked in an extremely close race with Democratic challenger Tony Evers—were quick to highlight the company's alleged plans as further evidence that the governor's "deal" with the Taiwanese multinational has been a massive fraud from the start:</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">One Wisconsin Now</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">?</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">@onewisconsinnow</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> As we predicted, @ScottWalker’s $4.5 billion taxpayer-funded election Hail Mary was more like punting to a foreign billionaire on second down. https://www.wsj.com/articles/foxconn-considers-bringing-chinese-personnel-to-wisconsin-as-u-s-labor-market-tightens-1541505600 …</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">6:03 AM - Nov 6, 2018</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Foxconn promised to hire 13,000 employees for its planned Wisconsin plant. That’s proving hard in a tight labor market</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Foxconn Considers Bringing Chinese Personnel to Wisconsin as U.S. Labor Market Tightens</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Facing one of the tightest labor markets in the U.S., Foxconn has been trying to tap Chinese engineers through internal transfers to supplement staffing for its planned Wisconsin plant, according to...</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">John Nichols</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">@NicholsUprising</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> Scott Walker bartered off Wisconsin’s future to a foreign corporation with a promise to create great jobs for Wisconsinites.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">From today’s Wall Street Journal: “Foxconn Considers Bringing Chinese Workers to Wisconsin as U.S. Labor Market Tightens” https://www.wsj.com/articles/foxconn-considers-bringing-chinese-personnel-to-wisconsin-as-u-s-labor-market-tightens-1541505600 …</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">7:55 AM - Nov 6, 2018</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Foxconn promised to hire 13,000 employees for its planned Wisconsin plant. That’s proving hard in a tight labor market</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Foxconn Considers Bringing Chinese Personnel to Wisconsin as U.S. Labor Market Tightens</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Facing one of the tightest labor markets in the U.S., Foxconn has been trying to tap Chinese engineers through internal transfers to supplement staffing for its planned Wisconsin plant, according to...</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Eric Levitz</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">@EricLevitz</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> Apparently, Scott Walker gave billions in subsidies to a Tawainese company, so that it would despoil land in Wisconsin while paying Chinese workers to make iPhones.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">5:36 AM - Nov 6, 2018</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">16</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">See Eric Levitz's other Tweets</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Twitter Ads info and privacy</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Alex Japko</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">@ajapko</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> LMAO. One last reminder that @ScottWalker is an absolute fraud. </font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"Foxconn Considers Bringing Chinese Workers to Wisconsin" https://www.wsj.com/articles/foxconn-considers-bringing-chinese-personnel-to-wisconsin-as-u-s-labor-market-tightens-1541505600 …</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">7:05 AM - Nov 6, 2018</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Foxconn promised to hire 13,000 employees for its planned Wisconsin plant. That’s proving hard in a tight labor market</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Foxconn Considers Bringing Chinese Personnel to Wisconsin as U.S. Labor Market Tightens</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Facing one of the tightest labor markets in the U.S., Foxconn has been trying to tap Chinese engineers through internal transfers to supplement staffing for its planned Wisconsin plant, according to...</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">With Walker ensnared in what CNN described this week as his "toughest race yet," the Foxconn deal is increasingly becoming a political liability that could cost him the governor's mansion in Tuesday's midterm elections.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">As the New Yorker's Dan Kaufman noted in a detailed look at the Foxconn deal over the weekend, the agreement—which is rapidly declining in popularity among Wisconsin voters—includes "taxpayer subsidies to the company totaling more than $4.5 billion, the largest subsidy for a foreign corporation in American history."</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"Since Wisconsin already exempts manufacturing companies from paying taxes, Foxconn, which generated a hundred and fifty-eight billion dollars in revenue last year, will receive much of this subsidy in direct cash payments from taxpayers," Kaufman observes. "Depending on how many jobs are actually created, taxpayers will be paying between two hundred and twenty thousand dollars and more than a million dollars per job."</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In an op-ed for The Progressive last year, Wisconsin ironworker and Democratic House candidate Randy Bryce—AKA "The Iron Stache"—declared, "We deserve better than corporate boondoggles like Foxconn, and our government’s leadership needs to stand on the side of workers."</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Wisconsin Foxconn Plant: A Bad Deal for Taxpayers | National Review</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">https://www.nationalreview.com/.../wisconsin-foxconn-plant-bad-deal-for-taxpayers/</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">1 day ago - It was a nice photo-op: the president of the United States, the speaker of the House, the governor of Wisconsin, and the CEO of Foxconn, ...</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Foxconn breaking ground on Wisconsin plant it received $4 billion to ...</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">money.cnn.com/2018/06/28/technology/foxconn-wisconsin-plant/index.html</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Jun 28, 2018 - Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn breaks ground on a new plant in WisconsinThursday after receiving a controversial $4 billion ...</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Foxconn's first Wisconsin factory likely will be smaller than planned</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/.../06/.../foxconns...wisconsin.../740627002/</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Jun 28, 2018 - Foxconn scales back plans for its first factory in Mount Pleasant. ... The FoxconnTechnology Group manufacturing complex that President Donald Trump helped launch Thursday in Mount Pleasant will differ significantly, at least initially, from the original plans.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">https://kpfa.org/program/economic-update/</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">8/4</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">foxconn 3k jobs, wolff 8/4/17 3 bill subsidy Ryan, trump, walker photo-op; 1mil$ subsidy/job; 50K/yr = 60K ppl</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">anti- suicide nets?</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Foxconn, the biggest assembler of Apple devices, is in preliminary discussions to make an investment that would expand the company's U.S. operations. From a report on Bloomberg:</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The disclosure came hours after an announcement by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and SoftBank Group's Masayoshi Son to invest $50 billion in the U.S. and create 50,000 jobs. The money will come from SoftBank's $100 billion technology fund, which was announced in October, a person familiar with the matter said. A document that Son held up after the meeting in Trump Tower also included the words "Foxconn," "$7 billion" and "50,000 new jobs" in addition to SoftBank's numbers. "While the scope of the potential investment has not been determined, we will announce the details of any plans following the completion of direct discussions between our leadership and the relevant U.S. officials," Foxconn said in a statement. "Those plans would be made based on mutually-agreed terms."</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Taipei (AFP) - Taiwan's tech giant Foxconn confirmed Wednesday it is in talks over a new US investment, while SoftBank shares soared after President-elect Donald Trump unveiled a $50 billion deal with the two firms.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Trump announced the agreement -- which he said would bring 50,000 jobs -- in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York, alongside SoftBank's flamboyant chief executive Masayoshi Son.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Son brandished a document featuring the names of his firm and Foxconn which read: "Commit to invest $50bn + $7bn in US, generate 50k + 50k new jobs in US in next four years."</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Foxconn, a major supplier to Apple, confirmed in a statement it is "in preliminary discussions regarding a potential investment" that would expand its current US operations, but would give no further details.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"We will announce the details of any plans following the completion of direct discussions between our leadership and the relevant US officials," the statement said.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The firm is the world's largest contract electronics maker and is best-known for assembling products for international brands such as Apple and Sony.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">But as Apple diversifies its supply chain, Foxconn has branched out into robotics, e-commerce, telecoms and biotech.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Analysts said the potential deal reflected pressure on Apple to refocus on the US.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Trump campaigned on a platform of bringing jobs back to the US which he said were being taken away, particularly by China.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"Trump is pressuring Apple to return to the United States and Foxconn as an Apple supplier is going there to be near its client to strengthen its ties with Apple," said Arthur Liao, an analyst at Fubon Securities.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Liao said he expected the new investment to focus on automation, design, and research and development, rather than manufacturing due to high labour costs in the country.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Foxconn, also known as Hon Hai, employs around a million workers at its factories across China and has operations in more than 10 countries including Vietnam, Brazil and Mexico.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In the US, it has a plant in Virginia for packaging and engineering which employes over 400 people. It has also announced a $40 million investment in a facility in Pennsylvania to build precision tools and develop a robotics programme.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Foxconn founder Terry Gou and SoftBank's Son are reported to be good friends -- Foxconn recently contract manufactured Softbank's talking humanoid "Pepper" robots, which have been introduced into workplaces around the world including in Taiwan.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Shares in Foxconn ended 0.97 percent higher at Tw$83.1 in Taipei on Wednesday.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Shares in Tokyo-listed SoftBank also closed up 6.19 percent after Trump's announcement, which he made while wrapping an arm around Son.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"This is Masa of SoftBank from Japan and he's just agreed to invest $50 billion in the United States and 50,000 jobs," Trump told reporters.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">SoftBank declined to comment on details, but the funds will likely go towards acquisitions and investments in tech companies including start-ups, Japanese media said.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Son has led the firm in a string of acquisitions including early investment in Alibaba, China's equivalent to eBay.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">He pointed to Trump's business experience as a plus.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"I expect there will be various forms of deregulation," under Trump, Son told Japanese journalists in New York.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"He has a lot of experience as a businessman. Unlike many politicians who do a lot of talking, but only talking, I feel like he will take action," he said.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">SoftBank reaped huge profits from a partial sale of its stake in Alibaba, while in June it sold Finnish game-maker Supercell Oy, creator of "Clash of Clans", to Chinese internet giant Tencent for $8.6 billion.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">But its US mobile unit Sprint, which it bought in 2013 for $22 billion, is still unprofitable.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Son initially set his sights on a merger with US-based T-Mobile but the plan was abandoned owing to likely opposition from US regulators.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Some analysts have also questioned SoftBank's most recent high-profile deal -- the $32-billion purchase of British iPhone chip designer ARM Holdings.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">There have been growing concerns about its balance sheet with SoftBank carrying more than $100 billion in debt.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Founded in 1974, is a multinational manufacturing services provider serving the computer, communications, and consumer electronics industries based in Taiwan. It helps companies design and manufacture their products. Its emphases are in nanotechnology, heat transfer, wireless connectivity, material sciences, and green manufacturing process.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Contents </font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">1 Company History</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">1.1 Historical Financial Information</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">1.2 Business Strategy</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2 Political and Public Influence</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2.1 Political Contributions</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2.2 Lobbying</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">3 Corporate Accountability</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">3.1 Labor</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">3.2 Human Rights</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">3.3 Environment</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">3.4 Consumer Protection and Product Safety</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">3.5 Anti-Trust and Tax Practices</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">3.6 Social Responsibility Initiatives</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">4 Business Scope</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">4.1 Financial Information</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">5 Governance</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">6 Contact Information</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">7 Articles and Resources</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">7.1 Books on the Company</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">7.2 Related SourceWatch Articles</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">7.3 Sources</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">7.4 External Resources</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">7.5 External Articles</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Company History</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Terry Gou founded Hon Hai Precision Industry Company Ltd. in Taipei in 1974 with start-up capital of $7,500 USD. This company became the center of the Foxconn Technology Group. In 2001, Foxconn was the largest non-government affiliated company in Taiwan.[2] By 2005 the company held over 15,000 patents.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Historical Financial Information</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Historical Stock Prices</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Business Strategy</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">According to its website[3]:</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"Since 1974, Foxconn had always been guided by three Foxconnian visions;</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Through the most efficient "Total Cost Advantages" to make comfort of electronic products usage an attainable reality for all mankind;</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Through the proprietary one-stop shopping vertical integrated eCMMS model to revolutionize the conventional inefficient electronics outsourcing model;</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Through the devotion to greater social harmony and higher ethical standards to achieve a win-win model for all stakeholders including shareholders, employees, community and management.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Foxconn's Product:</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Speed, Quality, Engineering Services, Flexibility and Monetary Cost Saving.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Foxconn's eCMMS:</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">eCMMS stands for e-enabled Components, Modules, Moves and Services. eCMMS is the vertical integrated one stop shopping business model by integrating mechanical, electrical and optical capabilities altogether. It covers solutions ranging from moulding, tooling, mechanical parts, components, modules, system assembly, design, manufacturing, maintenence, logistics ... etc. Through the eCMMS model, Foxconn's Southern China campus is not only the world's largest 3C manufacturing base, but also the shortest supply chain at the same time.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Political and Public Influence</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Political Contributions</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Lobbying</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Corporate Accountability</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Labor</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Longhua town in Baoan district, Shenzhen province, China, is dominated by the Foxconn factory and its dormitories. This facility produces iPods for Apple. It has over 240,000 employees, with plans for 300,000 in the near future. Although workers receive free housing and food, have medical benefits (the company pays 80% of expenses), and have 3 months of maternity leave, workers at the factory live in dormitories so crowded and noisy they cannot sleep properly, are forbidden from cooking or having visitors, are isolated because of the barren world outside the factory gates, and are not paid for all of their wages.[4]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Foxconn is one of the major purchasers of electronics produced at the Lite-On Computer Technology production facility in Shijie Town, Dongguan Province, China (founded 1997).[5] By early 2008, the facility employed about 5000 people who enter the company by paying agencies based in Shijie town, Dongguan, 500-600 yuan (for men) or 200 yuan (for women). [6] While Lite-On production schedules follow a normal 8-hour workday, breaks consist of only 10 minutes twice a day and are unpaid – further, overtime work in the evenings, on weekends, and especially during busy seasons, is mandatory and can reach up to 100 hours a month, in violation of both Chinese Labor Law and the EICC standard. [7] Basic wages at Lite-On complied with Chinese minimum wage laws (690 yuan/month in 2007), but until mid-to-late 2007 when overtime began being paid at twice the standard weekend rate (8.24 yuan/hour) the company violated overtime wage laws by paying over 2 yuan less per hour. [8] A fire in the factory in February of 2008 has caused workers to be extremely concerned about their safety, and as of May 2008 production had not yet fully resumed at full capacity due to the damage the fire had caused. [9] Workers are charged up to one quarter of their wages on food, electricity, and water for eating and living in the factory dormitories, which house up to 16 people per room. [10] Research conducted by [SACOM] and [Bread for All] in early 2008 concluded that workers at Lite-On were unaware of their rights under either [EICC] standards or any of the codes of conduct of Lite-On’s customers, including Foxconn.[11]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Lite-On Xuji Electronics Co., Ltd. Is a keyboard manufacturer based in Dongguan, China. The factory was founded in 1995, and while Dell is its major buyer, Lite-On Xuji sells keyboards to Acer, Apple, Foxconn,Gateway, HP, IBM, Lenovo, Logitech, Microsoft, NEC, Sony, and Toshiba.[12] According to a 2008 report conducted by SACOM and Bread for All, the factory employed 3000 workers who work between 10 and 12 hours a day.[12] The factory began paying workers legal wages and overtime wages in 2008, while they had been paying illegally low wages in 2006 and 2007.[13] However, workers continue to work more than 100 overtime hours per month, well about the legal limit of 36 overtime hours monthly.[13] Due to long hours standing, repetitive tasks, and high work speed, workers suffer from swollen legs, back pain, and other repetitive motion injuries, as well as irritation from paint and paint thinner fumes name="high tech 31-2"> Jenny Chan, the Research Team of SACOM, and Bread for All. May 2008. “High Tech – No Rights? A One Year Follow-up Report on Working Conditions in China’s Electronic Hardware Sector.” P. 31-2.. Despite these problems, Xuji factory has no program in place to “identify, evaluate, and control the hazards that arise from physically demanding work.”[13] Management threatens workers who make mistakes with the possibility of the withdrawal of factory client orders. name="high tech 31"> Jenny Chan, the Research Team of SACOM, and Bread for All. May 2008. “High Tech – No Rights? A One Year Follow-up Report on Working Conditions in China’s Electronic Hardware Sector.” P. 31. Worker dormitories are very crowded and noisy, housing 16 workers per room, who must share all facilities in common and often have trouble sleeping due to noise. name="high tech 32"> Jenny Chan, the Research Team of SACOM, and Bread for All. May 2008. “High Tech – No Rights? A One Year Follow-up Report on Working Conditions in China’s Electronic Hardware Sector.” P. 32. While workers were not aware of their labor rights under the EICC, they still “expressed the urgent need” for safety training as well as shortened standing work hours or at least longer breaks and rest periods. name="high tech 32"> Jenny Chan, the Research Team of SACOM, and Bread for All. May 2008. “High Tech – No Rights? A One Year Follow-up Report on Working Conditions in China’s Electronic Hardware Sector.” P. 32.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Human Rights</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Environment</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Consumer Protection and Product Safety</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Anti-Trust and Tax Practices</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Social Responsibility Initiatives</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Social and Environmental Responsibility</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Restrictions on the Use of Hazardous Chemicals</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Business Scope</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">As of 2008, Foxconn was building over 80,000 iPhones for Apple a week.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Wired magazine's Joel Johnson has written a stunning bit of PR for Foxconn, now-controversial supplier to the consumer electronics industry, duly wrapped in credibility-enhancing guilt over Western materialism.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The article, “1 Million Workers. 90 Million iPhones. 17 Suicides. Who’s to Blame?” pretends to be about Foxconn’s factories. But Johnson admits he’s a tech toy writer who apparently has no knowledge of manufacturing (I know I’ve had only limited contact with manufacturing, yet reading his piece, I’d bet serious money that I’ve seen more manufacturing operations than he has by dint of being a coated paper brat and doing due diligence on some oddball tech deals over the years, as well as visiting a motherboard maker back in the stone ages when motherboards were made in the US). Yet he’s remarkably uninhibited in using his fantasies and abject ignorance as a basis for making sweeping generalizations about the Taiwanese powerhouse. For instance:</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"In the part of our minds where Americans hold an image of what an Asian factory may be, there are two competing visions: fluorescent fields of chittering machines attended by clean-suited technicians, or barefoot laborers bent over long wooden tables in sweltering rooms hazed by a fog of soldering fumes.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">When we buy a new electronic device, we imagine the former factory. Our little glass, metal, and plastic marvel is the height of modern technological progress; it must have been made by worker-robots (with hands like surgeon-robots)—or failing that, extremely competent human beings.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">But when we think “Chinese factory,” we often imagine the latter. Some in the US—and here I should probably stop speaking in generalities and simply refer to myself—harbor a guilty suspicion that the products we buy from China, even those made for American companies, come to us at the expense of underpaid and oppressed laborers."</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Huh? Is he serious about this? Anyone who has been following China even slightly would imagine Chinese factories aren’t like Japanese car-makers, heavy on robotics, but are mainly labor intensive (with the exception of some sparkling new capital intensive factories where China is trying to go up the value added chain), and if they are in the Pearl River Delta, makers of watches, clothing and toys (hence not much soldering). And if higher tech, the operations HAVE to be pretty to very clean. But no, everyone in the Wired readership is assumed to share his blinkered imagination.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">This extract really does serve as a window onto the entire piece, because it is unduly involved in his inner process, and is remarkably ungrounded in reality-vetting. Yes, he did visit a Foxconn factory, on a guided tour organized and led by executives and PR giant Burson Marsteller. That fails the objectivity smell test. Did he try to talk to Foxconn workers outside the factory? Ex Foxconn workers? Apparently not. The only perspective he has outside his guided tour and his noisy imagination is from one Paul, a “steward for Western electronics companies seeking to procure components or goods from one of the city’s thousands of suppliers.” Do you think someone who makes his living connecting Western tech executives to Chinese manufacturers is going to say ANYTHING bad about the biggest fish in the electronics pond?</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The piece goes to obvious lengths to soften the perception of the situation. He frames his account in terms of the suicides, when the recent New York Times series on Apple and Foxconn did not focus on those deaths, but the extreme hours and sometimes grinding physical toll (such as workers getting swollen feet from standing and working more than 24 hours straight). So the article skips almost completely over that issue, juxtaposing the seeming niceness of the clean factory he visited versus the deaths, and only very much later gets to the conditions that produced the suicides.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Johnson is quick to claim that the Foxconn suicides are one-fourth the level of that of college students. So even the most attention getting factoid is not so bad, right? Not so fast. The right comparison is not the number of suicides to Foxconn’s total workforce, since only the employees who killed themselves on site are probably the ones that are included in that total. If a worker killed themselves off site, you can be sure it would be attributed to something else (and it would be hard to parse out the causes). Moreover, it is the workers who live on site, who are about 1/4 of all employees, who are subject to the most extreme work hours (the New York Times recounts how they were roused at midnight to meet an Apple production demand). So this means the suicide rate at least as high as that of college students.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">And to be apples to apples (pun intended), you’d need to compare suicides at Foxconn to suicides by college students on campus, which would presumably be more closely correlated with the stress of campus life, than of students who were simply enrolled in college. So it is very likely that a more accurate measurement would have Foxconn showing a markedly higher suicide rate than those of college students.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Finally, and I hate to be morbid, but a highly regimented, low privacy environment like Foxconn probably reduces the number of suicides below what you might otherwise observe. You have many fewer options for offing yourself available to you if you are living on site at Foxconn compared to a US college student (I am not making this up: gunshot is out, pills are probably too costly to procure, slitting your wrists actually takes proper technique). And Foxconn now has netting up to prevent jumping off most buildings and presumably also has its guard force on closer watch. That means the suicide rate probably understates the level of stress experienced by the workers who live on site.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">He also bizarrely tries to bifurcate the work content, which he makes sound OK but boring, from what critics charge are more than occasional extreme hours, and completely ignores safety problems that add to the Foxconn death count,highlighted in a New York Times article at the end of January:</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"But the work itself isn’t inhumane—unless you consider a repetitive, exhausting, and alienating workplace over which you have no influence or authority to be inhumane. And that would pretty much describe every single manufacturing or burger-flipping job ever."Huh? “Every single manufacturing job ever”? Some manufacturing jobs ARE inhumane. Start with the meatpacking industry in the US. But there is a lot of light manufacturing where the work is not highly repetitive, and that is also true in highly capital intensive factories like the paper industry. This “all manufacturing jobs are bad, therefore Foxconn is not so bad” is simply a baldfaced assertion.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Now I am not saying that there is not a case to be made in defense of Foxconn. But this article is an embarrassment. It’s an intellectually lazy way to assuage the guilt of Wired-reading gadget-owners. For instance, he resorts to “everyone in an advanced economy is guilty” as a way of diminishing the issues specific to Foxconn:</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"Every last trifle we touch and consume, right down to the paper on which this magazine is printed or the screen on which it’s displayed, is not only ephemeral but in a real sense irreplaceable. Every consumer good has a cost not borne out by its price but instead falsely bolstered by a vanishing resource economy. We squander millions of years’ worth of stored energy, stored life, from our planet to make not only things that are critical to our survival and comfort but also things that simply satisfy our innate primate desire to possess. It’s this guilt that we attempt to assuage with the hope that our consumerist culture is making life better—for ourselves, of course, but also in some lesser way for those who cannot afford to buy everything we purchase, consume, or own."</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">There is a huge, unexamined leap between “things critical to our survival” and those critical to what we have come to define as our comfort. It’s the unwillingness to examine the difference between the two, or any serious question raised by the role of Foxconn, that makes this piece so dubious. (And this is not an idle observation in my case. Your humble blogger fights planned obsolescence tooth and nail: I used a NeXT computer for 10 1/2 years, a TiBook for over 8, and am still using a Nokia that is probably from 2005. I am writing this post using an Apple monitor from 2002).</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">I find this little chart (hat tip Richard Smith) from ninety9 viaAlea (who is the antithesis of a socialist) to be more though-provoking than the entire Wired piece:</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">There have been numerous articles complaining about how the Chinese don’t consume enough, and the blame is laid on the high savings rate, which is in turn attributed to the lack of social safety nets (and a second, related issue is the lack of retail infrastructure). Yet it was a sonofabitch capitalist, Henry Ford, that helped create the American middle class in 1914 by paying his workers double the prevailing rate, which partly paid for itself by reducing costly turnover and increasing productivity (well paid workers are grateful workers and want to help their company what a thought!). But the big benefit for Ford was the higher wages were in large measure met by manufacturers in other cities, and created a consumer base for Ford’s own big ticket product. It was not safety nets that created higher consumption and greater American prosperity; it was higher wages.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Ford didn’t see his pay raise as a wage increases but as profit sharing. The chart Alea highlighted shows Apple could kick start a revolution in China that would help American companies, including Apple, at comparatively little cost to itself. What stood in the way when Jobs was alive was his monumental ego and his desire to leave a legacy though his products rather than his conduct as an industrialist. And now that he is dead, Apple’s practices are likely to be guided by American short-sightedness and bad incentives for executives of public companies.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">There is no doubt that Foxconn is indeed taking things seriously. The Foxconn spokesperson comes from none other than spin masters Burson-Marsteller, which is a global public relations company which specialises in dealing with enormous PR disasters.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Burson-Marsteller has handled Tylenol poisonings, and, according to Corporate Watch, the Bhopal disaster, and the Three Mile Island. It represented the private military group Blackwater which was accused of being gung-ho against the residents of Baghdad.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">There can’t be many PR companies which have had clients like the Argentinian military junta led by General Jorge Videla who helped 35,000 people to disappear. Burson-Marsteller looked after the image of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaucescu and Saudi Arabia after it was pointed out that most of the September 11 attackers were from that country.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Anyway, Foxconn is telling us that it has strict recruitment regulations to ensure full compliance with worker age regulations and laws.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., trading as Foxconn Technology Group, is a Taiwanese multinational electronics contract manufacturing company headquartered in Tucheng, New Taipei, Taiwan. It is the world's largest electronics contractor manufacturer,[3] and the third-largest information technology company by revenue.[4]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Foxconn is primarily a contract manufacturer and its clients include major American, European, and Japanese electronics and information technology companies. Notable products that the company manufactures include the BlackBerry,[5] iPad,[6] iPhone,[7] Kindle,[8] PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Wii U.[9]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Foxconn has been involved in several controversies relating to how it manages employees in China. There has been a history of suicides at its factories blamed on working conditions. In January 2012, about 150 Foxconn employees threatened to commit mass-suicide in protest at their working conditions.[10]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Contents </font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">1 History</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2 Operations</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2.1 China</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2.2 Australia</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2.3 Brazil</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2.4 Europe</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2.5 India</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2.6 Japan</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2.7 Malaysia</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2.8 Mexico</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2.9 Pakistan</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2.10 South Korea</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2.11 United States</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">3 Major customers</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">4 Controversies</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">4.1 Working conditions</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">4.2 Suicides</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">5 See also</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">6 References</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">7 Further reading</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">8 External links</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">History</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 2001, Intel concentrated on its core competency of chip making and began using Chinese contract manufacturers such as Foxconn to make Intel-branded motherboards.[12]Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. was founded in 1974 by Terry Gou as a manufacturer of electrical components (notably electrical connectors for computer components,[7] which found use in the Atari 2600).[11] Foxconn was originally a trade name of Hon Hai and a subsidiary later received the name.[7] Hon Hai's first manufacturing plant in mainland China opened in Longhua, Shenzhen, in 1988.[7]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In November 2007, Foxconn announced plans to build a new US$500 million plant in Huizhou, Southern China.[13]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In March 2012, Foxconn agreed to acquire a 10 percent stake in the Japanese electronics company Sharp Corporation for US$806 million and to purchase up to 50 percent of the LCD displays produced at Sharp's plant in Sakai, Japan.[14]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In January 2012, Foxconn named Tien Chong (Terry) Cheng chief executive, who soon resigned, citing health problems.[15]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In September 2012, Foxconn announced plans to invest US$494 million in the construction of five new factories in Itu, Brazil, creating 10,000 jobs.[16]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The company paid $312 million in 2014 for two 4G licenses in the lower 700 MHz and 900 MHz bands in Taiwan's Telco spectrum auction. In May 2014, Foxconn announced it was expanding its involvement in Taiwan's nascent 4G telecommunications market further by merging with Taiwan's fourth-largest mobile operator Asia Pacific Telecom. The deal was set to close on 20 June 2014.[17] In addition, FIH Mobile (a subsidiary of Hon Hai) became the largest shareholder of migme Limited, a social entertainment platform, through a $9.6 million investment that gave the Foxconn-linked handset company a 19.9% stake in the company.[18][19]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Operations</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Foxconn has factories in Asia, Europe, Mexico and Brazil that together assemble around 40 percent of all consumer electronics products sold.[20]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">China</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Foxconn has 12 factories in nine Chinese cities—more than in any other country.[21]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Foxconn's largest factory worldwide is in Longhua, Shenzhen, where hundreds of thousands of workers (varying counts include 230,000,[20] 300,000,[22] and 450,000[23]) are employed at the Longhua Science & Technology Park, a walled campus[7] sometimes referred to as “Foxconn City”.[24] Covering about 1.16 square miles (3 square km),[25] it includes 15 factories,[24] worker dormitories, a swimming pool,[26] a fire brigade,[7] its own television network (Foxconn TV),[7] and a city centre with a grocery store, bank, restaurants, bookstore, and hospital.[7] While some workers live in surrounding towns and villages, others live and work inside the complex;[27] a quarter of the employees live in the dormitories, and many of them work up to 12 hours a day for 6 days each week.[20] Another of Foxconn's factory "cities" is Zhengzhou Technology Park in Zhengzhou, Henan province, where it is reported 120,000 employees work.[28]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Foxconn continues to expand, and planned factories include sites at Chengdu in Sichuan province and Wuhan in Hubei province.[21]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Australia</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The manufacturing facility and warehouse are strategically located west of Sydney for easy access to road, rail, sea and air transport.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Brazil</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">All company facilities in South America are located in Brazil,[29] and these include mobile phone factories in Manaus and Indaiatuba as well as production bases in Jundiai, Sorocaba, and Santa Rita do Sapucaí.[30]The company is considering more investments in Brazil.[31]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Europe</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">IndiaFoxconn has factories in Hungary,[32] Slovakia,[31]Turkey [33] and the Czech Republic.[34] Foxconn factories are strategically located in Europe to ensure rapid fulfillment for its customers. It is the second-largest exporter in the Czech Republic.[34] The facility in Pardubice has been established in 2000 and it has become the regional HQ of Foxconn EMEA operations, with the manufacturing & shipping capacity over 1 million systems per month. In 2008, Foxconn opened the new plant in Kutna Hora, used for manufacturing of servers and data centers. Foxconn started its manufacting operations in Turkey in February 2011. Foxconn Turkey received the official Authorized Economic Operator Certificate from Turkey’s former Customs and Trade Minister Hayati Yazici in May 2014. This marks Foxconn as one of the first 12 companies in Turkey which qualified for this certificate and the first one which is operating inside Turkey Free Trade Zone. AEO certificate proofs Foxconn Turkey as the trustable company from Customs point of view, that is also financially capable, has got the traceable records and the security standards for controlling its processes.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Foxconn has operational units since 2006 in the Special Economic Zone of Chennai, Tamil Nadu.[35] This unit is closed as of December 24, 2014. This affected 22,000 employees.[36] Foxconn Technology is in talks to manufacture Apple's iPhone in India.[37] In 2015 Foxconn would be setting up twelve factories in India and would create around one million jobs.[38]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Japan</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Foxconn and Sharp Corporation jointly run two plants manufacturing large-screen televisions in Sakai, Osaka. In August 2012, it was reported that Sharp, while doing corporate restructuring and downsizing, was considering selling the plants to Foxconn, which was believed to be receptive to the plan.[39]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Malaysia</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">As of 2011, Foxconn had at least seven factories in Johor state,[40] possibly at Kulaijaya, where it is developing an industrial park that will include four factories once completed.[41]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Mexico</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Foxconn has a facility in San Jerónimo, Chihuahua that assembles computers,[42] and two facilities in Juárez – a former Motorola production base that manufactures mobile phones,[43] and a set-top box factory acquired from Cisco Systems.[44] LCD televisions are also made in the country by Foxconn in a plant acquired from Sony.[45]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Pakistan</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In Pakistan, Foxconn has factories in Karachi and Islamabad. Foxconn has a facility in Faisalabad that assembles computers.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">South Korea</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The company invested $377 million in June 2014 to pick up a 4.9% shareholding in South Korean IT services provider SK C&C.[46]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">United States</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Foxconn has a facility in Indianapolis, that obtained the highest customer performance rating in Americas region for 2013. In December 2013, Foxconn announced plans to invest $30 million over two years to build a manufacturing facility in Pennsylvania, as well as putting $10 million into R&D at Carnegie Mellon University. The new facility will be located in Harrisburg and will develop robotic equipment. [47][48] As of July 2015, the investments had not been made.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Major customers</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Major customers of Foxconn include or have included:</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Acer Inc. (Taiwan)[49]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Amazon.com (United States)[8]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Apple Inc. (United States)[50]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">BlackBerry Ltd. (Canada)[51]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Cisco (United States)[52]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Dell (United States)[53]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Google (United States)[54]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Hewlett-Packard (United States)[55]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Huawei (China)[56]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Microsoft (United States)[57]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Motorola Mobility (United States)[53]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Nintendo (Japan)[58]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Nokia (Finland)[50][59]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Sony (Japan)[60]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Toshiba (Japan)[61]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Xiaomi (China)[62]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Vizio (United States)[63]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">(headquarters location in parentheses)</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Working conditions</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Allegations of poor working conditions have been made on several occasions.[65] News reports highlight the long working hours,[24][25] discrimination against mainland Chinese workers by their Taiwanese co-workers,[66] and lack of working relationships at the company.[67] Although Foxconn was found to be compliant in the majority of areas when Apple Inc. audited the maker of its iPods and iPhones in 2007[7] the audit did substantiate a few of the allegations.[68]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Concerns increased in early 2012 due to an article published in The New York Times,[69] however, a portion of the source material was later found to be fictional.[70] However, a 2012 audit performed by the Fair Labor Association at the request of Apple Inc. found that workers routinely received insufficient overtime pay and suggested that workplace accidents may be common.[71][72]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">A Hong Kong non-profit organisation, Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior, has written numerous negative reports on Foxconn's treatment of its employees.[73] These typically find far worse conditions than the 2012 Fair Labor Association audit did[citation needed] but rely on a far smaller number of employee informants–100 to 170.[74] The Fair Labor Association audit in 2012 used interviews with 35,000 Foxconn employees.[71]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In September 2012, a fight at worker dormitories in Taiyuan, Shanxi, escalated into a riot involving 2,000 people and was quelled by security.[75][76]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In October 2012, the company admitted that 14-year-old children had worked for a short time at a facility in Yantai, Shandong Province.[77] Foxconn said that the workers involved were part of an internship program.[77] Individuals as young as 16 can legally work in China.[77]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Also in October 2012, a young worker, Zhang Tingzhen, was threatened to have Hon-Hai medical support canceled, when doctors remonstrated against moving his injured body for treatment in Huizhou from the hospital in Shenzhen.[clarification needed] He suffered an electrical shock and was injured to the extent that doctors needed to amputate half of his brain. This left him in no condition to travel to Huizhou, the city he was initially hired at. The company stated that it was acting within labor laws.[78][79][80][81]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Suicides</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Main article: Foxconn suicides</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Suicides among Foxconn workers have attracted media attention. One was the high-profile death of a worker after the loss of a prototype and the other, a series of suicides linked to low pay in 2010. Suicides of Foxconn workers continued into 2012, with one in June 2012.[82]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Sun Danyong, a 25-year-old man, committed suicide in July 2009 after reporting the loss of an iPhone 4[83] prototype in his possession.[84]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In reaction to a spate of worker suicides in which 14 people died in 2010,[85] a report from 20 Chinese universities described Foxconn factories as labor camps and detailed widespread worker abuse and illegal overtime.[86] In response to the suicides, Foxconn installed suicide-prevention netting at some facilities,[65] and it promised to offer substantially higher wages at its Shenzhen production bases.[87] Workers were also forced to sign a legally binding document guaranteeing they and their descendants would not sue the company as a result of unexpected death, self-injury or suicide.[88]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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Retrieved 2011-10-07.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Further reading</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Barboza, David, "Foxconn Plans to Lift Pay Sharply at Factories in China", The New York Times, February 18, 2012</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Duhigg, Charles; Barboza, David, "Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad", The New York Times, January 25, 2012</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Kristof, Nicholas D.; WuDunn, Sheryl, "Two Cheers for Sweatshops", The New York Times, September 24, 2000</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Weir, Bill, "iFactory: Inside Apple", ABC Nightline, TV program, February 21, 2012</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">External links</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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