Foxconned in Ohio: Youngstown Business Journal getting snookered by Foxconn

 

Screenshot from 2020 video by Retiring Guy

Headline:  Youngstown Business Journal, 10/31/2023

He explains that the driving force behind Foxconn’s plans for its Lordstown assembly plant is to create an entirely new culture. These range from small gestures such as inexpensive but practical furniture, the addition of United States flags throughout the plant, and eating lunch with employees in the complex’s cafeteria. Others such as adhering to workers’ concerns and ensuring their safety are a priority for Rajaie and are integral in building a productive workforce as the industry undergoes a seismic transition.

Other Foxconn and Foxconn/Lordstown posts:

2023

October 

With a straight face, business journal announces series to take readers inside the Ohio Foxconn.  (10/30)

Lordstown Endurance electric truck is a must to avoid.  (10/28)

The ongoing saga.  (10/24)

Foxconn serves up another empty promise to Lordstown.  (10/8)

After multiple deadline extensions, ex-CEO buys company assets .  (10/1)

September

Lordstown Motors debacle stumbles to a close.  (9/20)

Lordstown Motors down to zero?  (9/6)

Lordstown Motors debacle:  Better to lock the door and hide when Foxconn comes calling.  (9/5)

Illinois reporter recalls how Wisconsin governor Scott Walker got Foxconned.  (9/4)

Fisker enters follows the trail of Foxconn broken promises.  (9/2)

August

Foxconned in Ohio, just like we were in Wisconsin, Scott Walker.  (8/31)

Pollyanna lives in Lordstown.  (8/30)

Another passel of broken promises.  (8/23)

Apparently, former Ohio congressman Tim Ryan has never been to Wisconsin.  (8/15)

Lordstown Motors cautionary tale.  (8/10)

More evidence that everything that Foxconn touches in the USA turns to shit.  (8/8/)

Add Fisker to the list of those who have been Foxconned.  (8/6)

The production hell that was Lordstown Motors.  (8/2)

July

Another bad karma day for Lordstown Motors.  (7/28)

In the United States, it seems as though everything Foxconn touches turns to shit. (7/27)

More bad karma for Lordstown Motors.  (7/25)

Foxconn and Lordstown Motors engage in a war of words.  (7/24)

Take the money and run.  (7/18)

Lordstown Motors corporate welfare debacle in Ohio.  (7/17)

Wisconn Valley.  Voltage Valley.  File under 'Foxconned'.  (7/16).

Read a review of an EV truck you'll never drive.  (7/12)

Add India to the list of places where Foxconn has pulled out.  (7/11)

Lordstown Motors debacle: Sounds like Foxconn has more mischief up its sleeve.  (7/11)

Lordstown Motors continues to swirl down the toilet.  (7/10)

June

Embattled Lordstown continues to make headlines.  (6/29)

It's another Foxconn debacle as Lordstown Motors files for bankruptcy.  (6/27)

Vote of 'no confidence' from Lordstown Motors founder Steve Burns.  (6/22)

InvestsorPlace warns that Lordstown Motors RIDE will crash and burn.  (6/14)

Foxconn goes from Wisconsin bamboozle to Lordstown chicanery.  (6/13)

Lordstown/Foxconn EV debacle on verge of morphing into legal slugfest.  (6/11)

You're in for a bad RIDE with Lordstown Motors according to InvestorPlace.  (6/10)

Foxconn debacle at Lordstown is running on empty.  (6/5)

Foxconn/Lordstown Endurance partnership:  And the hits just keep on coming.  (6/3)

It's all over town, Lordstown's Endurance lacks endurance.  (6/2)

May

The slow drip of bad news out of Lordstown becomes a gusher, part 2.  (5/29)

The slow drip of bad news out of Lordstown becomes a gusher, part 1.  (5/29)

Not making good on a pledge?  It's a Foxconn speciality!  (5/28)

Foxconn/Lordstown Motors deal.  Tick.....tick.....tick..... (5/24)

January

Slow drip of bad news out of Lordstown continues for Foxconn.  (3/19)

2022

Slow drip of bad news out of Lordstown continues.  (5/22)

2021

Four years in, Foxconn still hopes to hit a bullseye.  (10/1)

GET ME REWRITE: Yes, Foxconn's $100 milion pledge to UW-Madison was nothing more than a cynical election ploy by Scott Walker.  (8/11)

The mysteries of Foxconn (season 2).  (5/12)

The collapse of Donald Trump's '8th Wonder of the World'.  (4/20)

2020

Apparently, that's not what Scott Walker heard.  (12/19)

Just wondering what else in this Foxconn op-ed is off the mark.  (11/17)

GET ME REWRITE: Two gullible guys from Racine County still believe anything Foxconn tells them.  (10/23)

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