Foxconn’s Wisconsin Workforce to Include 23% Veterans, Says Senior Adviser

The 13,000 employees who Foxconn plans to hire for its display fab in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, will include 3,000 veterans, said retired Marine Corps Col. Peter Buck, a Foxconn senior adviser, at last Thursday’s groundbreaking ceremony (see 1806290027). “As a veteran returning to my state here in Wisconsin, we’re looking at veterans closely because this is a group of people that is very mission-oriented, has been service-oriented their whole life and understands what it’s like to be part of something bigger than themselves.” The workforce will be 70 percent composed of “knowledge”-based employees, including those who will be hired for R&D, he said. The rest will be hired for their “basic skills,” he said. Foxconn is working with the University of Wisconsin to recruit knowledge-based employees for the plant, he said.