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Originally Posted by Zulu29
So apparently the new battery plant in Windsor will be staffed with South Korean employees? I really hope that it’s a temporary measure to train local workers until they’re up to speed. Would not be cool for the government to give so many subsidies to the company with no jobs to Canadians.
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not really. there will be South Korean staff coming
temporarily.
You have a project that Canada has never done, you need people who know what the heck they're doing to get it going.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/winds...tery-1.7033732
Joe McCabe is the president and CEO of Auto Forecast Solutions. He says that the end result of the NextStar facility is more employment for local workers — but news of South Korean workers coming to NextStar is "100 per cent" what he expected.
"This is what's going to happen with every partnership, especially in the electrification space with a foreign entity, and I think it's got to be sort of the pill that needs to be swallowed for a short amount of time," McCabe said.
"Anywhere you're going to partnership with a foreign entity, you're going to have representation from that foreign entity … at least for the kickoff, especially in a battery electric field."
Calls for an all-Canadian project from top to bottom are "short-sighted," he said, especially as the plant works to get up and running.
"I think you've got to bring the people that know the technology and are skilled and it's their backgrounds, their wheelhouse that come in, set the stage, make sure everything is ... running smoothly and then hand the keys off," he said.