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50% of TSMC's Arizona employees are from Taiwan, despite recent controversies — company plans to hire more US workers over time | TSMC plans to add more American workers at the Fab 21 site in Arizona.

TSMC plans to add more American workers at the Fab 21 site in Arizona.

After TSMC began building Fab 21 near Phoenix, Arizona, the company said it needed to dispatch more than 1,000 skilled workers from Taiwan so it could complete the project on time and within budget. This made Arizona unions furious, as they argued it essentially took positions from locals, and the situation even spurred a separate lawsuit for racial discrimination. When announcing the project in 2020, TSMC assured the public it would create jobs for locals, so bringing over 1,000 employees from Taiwan contradicts the foundry's promise to hire talent from Arizona, which naturally angered unions.

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