TSMC sued for race and citizenship discrimination at its Arizona facilities
TSMC sued for race and citizenship discrimination at its Arizona facilities
TSMC has been accused of preferring Taiwanese employees.
i ain't gonna lie, this is very funny
I have a friend who is a project lead there and...yeah, this is basically 100% the case. It is practically documented policy honestly, because the US workers won't deal with the hours that the Taiwan staff is willing to put up with. Execs have complained to him on a few occassions as to why they can't seem to hire/retain enough staff, which I think is why they just started bringing in Taiwanese workers.
H1-B visa workers are easier to exploit than citizens & permanent residents.
I find it kinda hilarious seeing white people face workplace discrimination for the first time in their lives.
the oppressed white people have to learn mandarin for a job
And it's because they don't work as hard as Chinese/ Taiwanese workers.
Once again proving the point that immigrants do the necessary jobs Americans won't do.
You mean it’s easier to exploit Visa workers, because what are they going to do? Stand up to a corporation who sponsors them staying in the US?
The workers are more "efficient" because they are working longer hours under threat that if they don't perform, they'll be shipped back to Taiwan. The suit explicitly states that the company is also focusing on unionized positions in order to disrupt union activity and weaken their bargaining power.
That's not "working harder", that's exploitation. If a farm forces a slave to work 14 hour days with minimal breaks and safety protections, they'll be more "efficient" than an 8 hour paid worker. Doesn't make the situation good in any way.
Critical support for any and all these problems to keep popping up.
Among the allegations in the complaint are that TSMC's HR team in Taiwan sends the U.S. arm of the company the resumes of candidates that have already been vetted and can work in the U.S., and then the U.S. team "simply hire these Asian/Taiwanese candidates without question, even if no open roles have been posted in the U.S."
I don't really see how this is a valid complaint, the Taiwanese workers are just easier and more efficient to train into their processes because there's no language or culture gap.
The suit also claims that a desire for Mandarin or Chinese language skills have been listed
Just learn Mandarin, f**kers. IDK how y'all think learning some Mandarin isn't necessary to work in a Taiwanese company.
First the Western press complained about how long TSMC construction was taking. Now they complain about the work culture, about TSMC not training English-only American workers, even though those two factors are the reasons why the fab is being built at a decent speed. These uncivilized Asians just can't do anything right /s.
If the USA wants to make these inefficient requests of TSMC now, they should have made all these desires clear beforehand. If they did, TSMC may not have been as eager to go through with the US fab. Changing the deal afterwards is a classic American bullshittery.
Mandarin or Chinese
Are they implying Mandarin is not Chinese?
Either they'd also be happy with e.g. Cantonese or they're hedging their bets and don't know who they will offend by suggesting that Taiwan speaks the same language as the most common one on the mainland.
They could be differentiating between Traditional Mandarin, and mainland simplified mandarin which is more commonly accepted as “Chinese”. Especially since traditional mandarin is still the official written form of Chinese in Taiwan, as they rejected the Maoist era reforms.
The main issue is the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It’s illegal for employers to discriminate on the basis of race, which includes only hiring one race. Imagine the logic if a company said that they only want white employees because there would be less of a culture gap. I assume your reaction would not be positive. That’s a core reason why that law was passed.
The US isn’t making inefficient requests. Those are the laws that every company has to deal with. Unless the company’s lawyers were born yesterday, they are also very well aware of this.
No one changed the deal. This has been the law for almost 70 years. Basic research would have told you everything I’m saying. Stop making excuses for a capitalist corporation.
Could be fairly straightforward to have this situation without discriminating on the basis of race. E.g. by setting the expected qualifications and experience a certain way.
How many yanks will be proficient in mandarin, with experience in chip manufacturing, and a desire to live within commuting distance of the factory. And of those, how many stick it out for the long term?
The end result is the same but the Act of 1964 might be satisfied. I don't know much about US law, tbh, but that's how employers have got away with racism the other way round in my country.
I don't really see how this is a valid complaint
It's discrimination based on race, it's literal racism
The person filing the suit, Deborah Howington, is a self-described American 'Caucasian'. Racism doesn't really exist for white Americans. Discrimination maybe, racism no.
The US wants this fab up and running fast, but they also want TSMC to waste a bunch of time translating all their operations over into English.
The more time they spend arguing over this stupid shit, the better.
There is no racism against white people because white people inherently hold the position of dominant social power in settler countries. The institutions, system and overall nation is geared to work towards their interests and serve them. White nationalism is at the core of most settler nations, manifest destiny being one of the earliest examples you might learn. Racism is a systemic issue. Discrimination might be what you're looking for.
Umm. Not good. Seems to me the US is poaching all their people so when they instigate over and lose Taiwan they don’t even have to evac these people or worry about chip production in a decoupling scenario.
I also think it’s interesting that the thing to laugh about this factory 6 months ago was how American workers could never make it work and how it was going to fail. Now that they’re succeeding by importing workers we’re moving the goal posts? Come on, let’s be sober about it. There’s a real problem here and the US stands a real chance of pulling off a tech decoupling from China while maintaining capacity.
Is there any precedent to a situation like this? A goverment subsidized company getting sued by racisl discrimination... What happens if the lawsuit is succesful? Maybe this sets up the foundation for a future expropiation?
I imagine this has happened before. Government handouts to corporations and racial discrimination are as American as apple pie.
i guess they key difference is that its not a western company
critical support to TSMC for filibustering Amerikkkan plans to dekkkouple and the Amerikkkan labor unions for standing for their own individual rights against ROC work culture (if it were about importing Mainland BYD cars, I'd call them chauvinist)
They can both ratfuck Amerikkka's ass
I expect discrimination at TSMC US factories will make TSMC fail in North America.