[Source.](https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/25/factory-arizona-biden-success-labor-union-taiwan-chips/) > A factory in Arizona that President Joe Biden once hailed as a success story of his economic agenda now faces significant issues with a labor union, the South China Morning Post reported Monday. > Biden and his supporters described the 2022 groundbreaking of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) facility near Phoenix, Arizona, as a solid indicator that his economic agenda is delivering strong results, boosting American manufacturing and minimizing the exposure of key supply chains to Chinese aggression, according to the South China Morning Post. However, about nine months later, the facility is marred by a dispute between TSMC and local labor unions, complicating that narrative while pitting key aspects of the Biden agenda against each other. > “The reason why business should be hiring union folks, if you don’t mind my saying, is simple: They’re the best in the world,” Biden said on Dec. 6 at the groundbreaking. “American manufacturing is back.” > However, Biden’s vision for a unionized workforce producing important computer chips in the facility has not yet come to life: TSMC has pushed back production and called for U.S. officials to fast-track visas for high-skilled Taiwanese workers to work the plant, according to the South China Morning Post. TSMC has hired mostly non-unionized workers through contractors, but the company is reportedly under political pressure to strike a deal with organized labor as Biden seeks its support in the 2024 presidential race.