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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]WSJ:

“Hyundai and LG Energy each filed a complaint to South Korea’s Foreign Ministry in April and May, asking for help with U.S. visa issues, according to documents obtained by ruling party lawmaker Kim Young-bae. Seoul’s Foreign Ministry said it had reached out to the Trump administration 52 times during his second term to discuss visa issues for Korean businesses.

“Asian companies investing in America have faced trouble in receiving enough work visas for personnel needed to get the U.S. plants running, [b]amid a shortage of skilled American technical workers[/b].”
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I am tired of hearing about the shortage of the skilled American worker. Maybe if they reached out 52 times the answer was- you can't bring in almost 500 international workers to assemble a plant with a total of 1500 workers getting the plant ready. Maybe the US government realized they weren't struggling to find skilled workers. They’re struggling to find people willing to work under the pay and conditions they’re offering.

And think logically. If they are admitting they reached out 52 times, then they absolutely realized most of the almost 500 workers were not allowed to work on the entry permit ETSA / B-1 visas. If it was allowed then why would they reach out so many times?

There was once a time when a union job in the automobile industry was the gold standard for the working class in America. Now foreign manufacturers are setting up in "right to work" / anti-union states in the south.

Hyundai was sued by the Labor Department under Biden in 2024 for using underage workers.  A Reuters investigation revealed the widespread and illegal employment of migrant children in Alabama factories supplying parts to both Hyundai and sister brand Kia.

Reuters learned of underage workers at Hyundai supplier SMART, in Luverne, Alabama, following the brief disappearance in February 2022 of a Guatemalan migrant child from her family's home in Alabama. The 13-year-old girl and her two brothers, aged 12 and 15 at the time, all worked at the plant in 2022 and were not going to school, according to people familiar with their employment.

At the time, SMART was a Hyundai subsidiary.The Labor Department said that at the time of the alleged violations, SMART's operations were "so integrated" with Hyundai's main manufacturing plant in Montgomery that "the two companies were a single employer for purposes of liability" under U.S. labor law. And that along with the staffing firm, the three companies "jointly employed" the minor.[/quote]

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