Posted on 07/17/2025 5:24:09 PM PDT by anthropocene_x
The plaintiffs claim TSMC favored hiring workers from Taiwan and mainland China, often excluding non-East Asian applicants. They allege that job fair invitations, internal documents, and even key meetings were conducted in Chinese, marginalizing American employees. Some U.S. workers said they were openly mocked as “lazy” and “stupid” by Taiwanese managers.
Plaintiffs also claimed that nearly half of the workforce at TSMC's Arizona fab is employed on foreign work visas, and that American employees were gradually pushed out.
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“Globalization will be great for everyone.”
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That remains to be seen, but isolationism isn’t great for anyone except the timid or incompetent.
TSMC=Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company
As someone who has used TSMC as a fab, multiple times…
…I can verify that Mandarin is the main spoken language…
…and insulting others as “not knowing what they’re doing”…
…even when pointing out their bugs…
…is par for the course.
USA works are not “lazy” and “stupid”. They are “expensive and “expensive” because their fathers and grandfathers worked their asses off to provide them with a higher standard of living.
TSMC was able to build a plant in Arizona and make it work. Intel, not so much.
https://www.azfamily.com/2025/07/15/records-intel-lay-off-nearly-700-workers-chandler-plant/
“The plaintiffs claim TSMC favored hiring workers from Taiwan and mainland China, often excluding non-East Asian applicants.”
Isn’t this pretty much par for the course with Asian companies?
“TSMC Faces U.S. Lawsuit Alleging Discrimination, Unsafe Work Environment at Arizona Plant”
Just because Trump forced them to locate in the US doesn’t mean that they’re capable of dealing with all the CRAP that US companies have to deal with.
“It depends. If they were forced to hire Stepin Fetchit and the Frito Bandito, then I might cut them some slack.”
Worse, they’re required to hire Welfare Queens.
Thank you.
““The plaintiffs claim TSMC favored hiring workers from Taiwan and mainland China, often excluding non-East Asian applicants.”
Isn’t this pretty much par for the course with Asian companies?”
Can you blame them? They’re used to having a pool of QUALIFIED workers to choose from, and instead they’re expected to take the garbage that the US Educational System produces.
I don’t know the situation in Arizona but I wouldn’t be surprised if a Taiwan company setting up new fabs in America would be employing a lot of experience Taiwanese until a sufficient pool of qualified Americans could be developed. Some of our American Universities should get off their dead asses and begin offering the needed courses of studies.
I remember when American businesses would set up foreign operations they’d initially employ a lot of experienced Americans until sufficient local talent was developed. The same thing happened with Japanese car manufacturers setting up American manufacturing locations… lots of Japanese onsite initially and not so many later on.
This is just my conjecture, of course.
At a temp job where they made and packaged cold packs used to keep vaccines and other things chilly while mailed there were at least 80% Hispanics, 10% other nations, 7% American blacks and 3% crackers like me. In middle Tennessee.
I was eventually let go due to “insubordination”: while others went on breaks I’d fix stuff no else seemed to care about and the Hispanic woman in charge didn’t like that.
I’m seeing a historical pattern here.
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In those cases, did the local unis give preference to Americans because they’d pay full price for education? I’d like to know what proportion of the Taiwanese/Chinese employees went to school in the U.S. The perverse incentives for American higher Ed is part of the problem… lots of domestic talent is being passed over for financial reasons.
Sounds like BS from the usual suspects.
Shakedown.
“TSMC favored hiring workers from Taiwan and mainland China...”
Sorry. No Chicoms should work in the US, especially in high-tech industries.
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