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Effort To Punish China Might Hit LA Instead

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A new effort to punish China appears to likely to instead hit Los Angeles jobs instead , due to an obscure provision in a national defense bill, which seeks to bar Chinese manufacturers from supplying things like train cars and buses to the United States. BYD employs around 700 people in Lancaster. READ MORE>>.

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BYD Facing Critics Over Labor Practices In LA

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Electric bus maker BYD is on the defensive, after a recent report which says that BYD--despite huge fanfare over its creation of a bus manufacturing plant in Lancaster--employs less than 40 workers here, and has been under investigation for importing Chinese workers and paying them at less than minimum wage. READ MORE>>.

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