Michael Bender, executive vice president at Walmart and president of Walmart West. Bonnie Kavoussi11/30/2012 Walmart workers “love their jobs.” Just ask Walmart. The retail giant took to Twitter and the opinion section of the San Francisco Chronicle Friday to defend itself against allegations from workers and labor organizers protesting on Black Friday, who claimed Walmart pays its employees low wages, […]
Warehouse workers in Southern California have filed a petition in court to name Walmart as a defendant in a federal wage-theft lawsuit, marking a significant turn in low-wage supply-chain workers’ fight with the world’s largest retailer. 11/30/2012 LOS ANGELES — Warehouse workers in Southern California have filed a petition in court to name Walmart as […]
Written by: Lee Rannals When it comes to texting and updating Facebook, our U.S. culture has an edge on all other societies, but mathematics is a different story altogether. A new research paper looked at how U.S. students fared in comparison to other nations, and found that our national math IQ is lacking. […]
November 30, 2012 For many years, apparel manufacturing has been slow in the United States due to the availability of cheaper labor and production options overseas. But the industry is currently in the middle of resurgence amidst a growing demand for better quality products that are exclusively ‘Made in the USA.’ A nation-wide initiative to revive and […]
Alyssa Alimurung More than three in four Americans consider the U.S. origin of a garment an “extremely” or “somewhat” important factor in their purchase decision, according to a survey conducted by the NPD Group for Women’s Wear Daily. That’s a 29.8 percent increase from responses 10 years ago. Although Marshal Cohen, NPD Group’s chief analyst, wasn’t surprised at […]
When President Obama comes to Montgomery County on Friday, he will speak in front of a two-foot-tall toy helicopter, a toy roller coaster, a toy grandfather clock, a motorized toy carousel, and an American flag made of 49,000 K’Nex pieces.
James O’TooleNovember 27, 2012 NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The Treasury Department said Tuesday that China’s currency remains undervalued, but stopped short of branding the country a currency manipulator. In its semi-annual report on international exchange rates, the Treasury Department said Chinese authorities “have substantially reduced the level of official […]
A worker in Gautier, Miss., pours molten metal into a mold on a job site. (Photo: Mike Brantley, AP) Andrea Kay Who would have thought that jobs like metal-refining furnace operators and tenders would be making a comeback in the year 2012?But they are. Such jobs, done by folks […]
The Milwaukee Common Council approved a measure that would require the city to purchase Milwaukee-made goods, provided the purchase meets certain criteria NOV 27, 2012 Milwaukee Aldermen adopted an ordinance Tuesday, requiring the city to buy Milwaukee-made goods, when purchases total more than $30,000. The ordinance specifies that the […]
By David FordNov 28, 2012 “World News with Diane Sawyer” is once again asking viewers if they are “in” for “The Great Made in America Christmas.” The holiday installment of the popular “Made in America” series kicks off on Wednesday, November 29 asking families from across the country “are you in?” for creating […]
By PETER NAVARRO “I personally do look at the labels of where things are made, but sometimes I go to buy things and it’s impossible to find something that isn’t made in China.” These words from U.S.-China Commission member Carolyn Bartholomew from my new documentary film “Death By China” aptly summarize a dilemma many American consumers […]
Firefighters hose down a blaze at a 10-story clothing factory on Nov. 26 in the Dhaka suburb of Uttara, Bangladesh. The fire broke out as people mourned more than 110 factory workers killed in a fire two days earlier at the Tazreen Fashion plant. | Photo Credit: AFP/Getty Images DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Amid the […]
Tim Martin11/18/2012 On a recent Fox News show, Bill O’Reilly, the rabble-rousing host of the “O’Reilly Factor” stated that President Obama’s reelection was due to “entitlement” voters. He went on to call Obama the poster boy for “progressive secularism,” a movement bent on destroying traditional America and replacing it with dependency and poverty. Bill’s comments […]
TJ McCue11/19/2012 It is no surprise that 80 percent of U.S. consumers vote for American-made. But over 60 percent of Chinese consumers also say that they are willing to pay more for products labeled “Made in USA” than for those labeled “Made in China,” according to new research released by The Boston […]
Nov. 15, 2012Chris Mayer You know those little throwaway plastic red cups that you see at parties? You can buy a case of 288 of these Solo red plastic cups for about $36. I’ll do the math for you: That’s about 12.5 cents per cup. It’s a cheap, low-end […]
China consumers are willing to pay more for certain products Made in USA. | Photo Credit: Getty Images Nick ZieminskiNovember 14, 2012 A new study found China consumers are willing to pay more for a product labeled “Made in USA” because they find those products to be higher quality. Consumers in China are willing to […]
AMERICAN MOUNTAIN CO.: U.S.-MADE ALPINE GEAR WITH STYLE | Photo Credit: Outside Magazine Gear ShedNovember 14, 2012 Mountains test your resilience. Cliffs and cold and striving for the summit push your physical and mental limits. Gravity and fear pull you down, while passion and determination push you higher. It is for these moments, these experiences, […]
Photo of Fessler USA CEO Walter Meck standing in front of idle sewing equipment at the Orwigsburg, Pa., plant. | AP Images Kelly HoltNovember 13, 2012 The graveyard of American businesses is receiving another occupant. Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania-based apparel manufacturer FesslerUSA, over 100 years old, is closing its doors. The company, founded in 1900, began by producing […]
Foxconn employees working on Apple products. | Photo Credit: Apple Charles Cooper November 9, 2012 The contract manufacturer for many of tech’s biggest companies — including Apple — tells CNET it is not expanding its North American presence. With unemployment close to 8 percent, you can understand why this headline […]
SHAILA DEWANNovember 8, 2012 Last Christmas, Sears had a brisk seller in the Bionic Wrench, an award-winning, patented tool with spiffy lime green accents. This holiday season, though, Sears has a special display for its own wrench, in the red and black colors of its house brand, Craftsman. One customer who recently spotted the new Craftsman tool, […]
Gary Osborne Founder & Creative Director, Oliver & Adelaide 11/07/2012 The Presidential election is over, but the campaign’s number one issue, jobs, lingers on. In today’s economy, as we heard time and again in the debates and countless ads, a huge part of that issue has been the question of how we can return manufacturing […]
Abe SauerNovember 7, 2012 During the now concluded contentious presidential election, the subject of manufacturing — specifically, the geological location of it — was a major topic of battle. One story to come out of all of the China-stealing-US-jobs talk was “reshoring,” or the common declaration of “the return of manufacturing.” Maybe because of its […]
Emanuella GrinbergNovember 5, 2012 (CNN) — They could’ve gone shopping much closer to home. Instead, Tomo Adachi and Lauren Kennedy packed up the car, drove six hours from Columbus, Ohio, to Chicago, got a hotel and made a weekend of it. This wasn’t your typical outlet mall excursion or antiquing […]
Paul M. BarrettNovember 01, 2012 Yes, yes, it’s unsophisticated to blame any given storm on climate change. Men and women in white lab coats tell us—and they’re right—that many factors contribute to each severe weather episode. Climate deniers exploit scientific complexity to avoid any discussion at all.Clarity, however, is […]
By: Devvy October 27, 2012 NewsWithViews.com “He, therefore, who is now against domestic manufacture, must be for reducing us either to dependence on that foreign nation, or to be clothed in skins, and to live like wild beasts in dens and caverns. I am not one of these; experience has taught me that manufactures are […]
Nedra RhoneOctober 23, 2012 There’s a 2001 Chevy Suburban parked in Melissia Perry’s garage. Next to that is a ’68 Ford Mustang. Inside her Woodstock, Ga., home are fully functional radios and televisions from the 1940s. Perry, 44, sometimes uses her great-grandmother’s crochet hooks to make crafts and her […]
October 26, 2012 The US economy grew more than expected in the three months to September, official figures showed. The world’s largest economy expanded at an annualised rate of 2% in the third quarter, the Commerce Department said.The jump was partly due to a large increase in government spending.The figures are the one of the last […]
DAVID BARBOZAOctober 25, 2012 BEIJING — The mother of China’s prime minister was a schoolteacher in northern China. His father was ordered to tend pigs in one of Mao’s political campaigns. And during childhood, “my family was extremely poor,” the prime minister, Wen Jiabao, said in a speech last year. But […]
A Chinese man adjusts the Chinese flag before a point press conference by Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Sept. 5, 2012. (Feng Li / AFP / Getty Images) Melinda Liu Oct 24, 2012 Chinese leaders […]
AP | By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER 10/26/2012 WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy expanded at a slightly faster 2 percent annual rate from July through September, buoyed by an uptick in consumer spending and a burst of government spending. The Commerce Department says growth improved from the 1.3 percent rate in the […]
