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发帖数: 16594 | 1 After a highly visible meeting with Apple CEO Tim Cook, Foxconn’s founder
Terry Gou announced plans to open a sprawling Foxconn factory in Guthrie
Center, Iowa, essentially replacing the approximately 2,000 residents of
that small town with workers from in and around Iowa. The company will hire
300,000 employees for the new factory, about 10% of Iowa’s population.
The plant will include dormitories for workers, multiple swimming pools and
Internet cafes, and meal seating for 100,000 employees.
The new plant will subsume most of Guthrie Center as well as potentially
thousands of acres of farmland around the area. Experts expect further
economic growth as small parts manufacturers begin building, importing, and
exporting from around Guthrie Center. A local farmer expects the plant to be
a windfall.
“I hear they eat 200 pigs a day at the plant down in China. We can probably
eat double that, easy,” said Harlon Williams, a pig farmer in nearby
Fanslers.
Apple has not confirmed whether they will request that all of their products
be made in Iowa, although a source says the company is assessing the
economic impact of building “local” products.
“It just makes sense,” said Apple Piper Jaffray Sr Research Analyst Gene
Munster . “Maybe this move will make Apple buy RIM and install BlackBerry
OS on the iPhone. You know, for business.”
Iowa Governor Terry Branstad called the plan a boon to Iowa’s workforce
which, along with Google’s data center in Council Bluffs, has turned Iowa
into a “high-tech hub” of the Midwest.
Manufacturing in Iowa has been in decline since the late 1990s. The Foxconn
factory will more than double Iowa’s total manufacturing workforce.
Not everyone was pleased with the news.
“I’m not moving,” said one Guthrie Center resident Paul Timmins, 56. “
And I’m not going to work there.”
Timmins was spending a long afternoon at the local coffee shop where he
comes each day for lunch. He has been coming here since a disability left
him unable to work for the Guthrie Center Golf Club. “I was born here,
grandmother buried here, mom is buried here. We want jobs out here for the
kids, sure, but this is too much.” | S********t
发帖数: 4402 | 2 why is this a joke? The 200 pig thing?
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【在 y***r 的大作中提到】
: After a highly visible meeting with Apple CEO Tim Cook, Foxconn’s founder
: Terry Gou announced plans to open a sprawling Foxconn factory in Guthrie
: Center, Iowa, essentially replacing the approximately 2,000 residents of
: that small town with workers from in and around Iowa. The company will hire
: 300,000 employees for the new factory, about 10% of Iowa’s population.
: The plant will include dormitories for workers, multiple swimming pools and
: Internet cafes, and meal seating for 100,000 employees.
: The new plant will subsume most of Guthrie Center as well as potentially
: thousands of acres of farmland around the area. Experts expect further
: economic growth as small parts manufacturers begin building, importing, and
| d*********r
发帖数: 11979 | 3 30万人吃400头猪，700多人吃一头，还是比较靠谱吧。 | g*****i
发帖数: 9630 | 4 呵呵，一人分根毛？
【在 d*********r 的大作中提到】
: 30万人吃400头猪，700多人吃一头，还是比较靠谱吧。
| y***r
发帖数: 16594 | 5 joke：富士康要在美国开工厂。
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: why is this a joke? The 200 pig thing?
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