Hyundai CEO of ICE RAID: “It is not our facility”

“I couldn’t believe what I saw because I was knowing, maybe before the news,” Monods said, when asked about his first reaction to the raid. “So I said, there is something strange here. How can something happen (and) no one tells me? And when I go to the details, I realize that it is not our facility. It is a LG battery factory.”

He continued, in response to a question from the CNN correspondent: “It seems as if something happened in Fox News,” he added. And they said, “How did you not know? “I said,” Hey, I am working for CNN, right? “

Monuz acquired that all media images in the raid showed the Metaplant facility in Hyundai instead of the adjacent LG factory. He said, “All the pictures that were shown everywhere, they are pictures of an attachment that differs from the place where the raid took place.”

His remarks come a few days after confirming that building the factory will be Two to three months delayed Because of the lack of employment. They come amid increasing repercussions from the September 4 raid, which led to the arrest of 475 workers, most of them from South Korea, at the battery factory run by Hyundai and LG Energy Solutions.

President Donald Trump sought to put South Korea after the raid, Advertisement It will allow foreign companies to temporarily bring “people of experience” to train American workers. But critics say that the damage may have already happened, as foreign companies now realize that their workers may wander in the Trump campaign.

The Hyundai-LG raid was very unusual because it seemed to target a fairly typical position. When opening a new facility in the United States, foreign auto manufacturers usually bring a cadre of its employees to help build, and then, once it is completed, American workers are training to operate it. Labor experts warn that the Georgia ice raid can calm foreign investment in the United States and target certain industries, especially the automobile companies that work on EVS.

Monods defended the foreign workers who were in Georgia to help build the factory, on the pretext that the experience in building these specialized factories is not present in the United States. He called for the creation of a new type of visa for high skills workers who help in developing these massive projects, to ensure future raids.

“I think the United States government has recognized that there should be a better solution to address this type of position,” he said. “I think that both governments in South Korea and the United States are actively working to try to ensure that such situations do not happen again.”