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Mayor fights to keep jobs at Batesville Caskets in Missouri, coffins, outsourcing

This Southern Town Made Wooden Coffins, Now A Mexican Town Will

In Batesville, Mississippi, a casket company is closing its factory and shifting production to Mexico. Batesville Casket announced Nov. 3 that it would close the facility where it manufactures wooden caskets, which would be made instead at…

Economy, Jobs, Manufacturing, Outsourcing

How Can Trump Stop Companies From Offshoring Jobs

President-elect Donald Trump says he’ll personally call every company in America that plans to ship jobs overseas and ask them to reconsider. But there are ways to stop American companies from offshoring jobs that don’t involve the U.S.…

Economy, Factory Closings, Jobs, Manufacturing, Outsourcing

Carrier Gets Tax Breaks, But Still Sending 1,300 Jobs To Mexico

Indiana state officials have agreed to give United Technologies Corp. $7 million worth of tax breaks to encourage the company to keep at least 1,069 jobs at its Carrier unit in Indianapolis, Carrier and the state said on Thursday. President-elect…

Economy, Factory Closings, Jobs, Manufacturing, Outsourcing, Politics, Production

Trump Supporters Anxious For Jobs To Come Back To USA

By the time the Chicago Cubs won the World Series for the first time in 108 years this month, Paul Roell was already asleep. He did not stay up to see Barack Obama win the presidency in 2008, or watch in 2000 as the margin of votes separating…

Domestic Sourcing, Economy, Exports, Manufacturing, Outsourcing, Reshoring

How to Revitalize U.S. Manufacturing

Manufacturing - Nine policies that could spark new growth in factory jobs and the economic benefits they bring. After a long decline, manufacturing is returning to the U.S. Now it may be time for U.S. policy makers to give it an extra boost. The…

Factories in American: 56K Lost During First Decade

Economy, Jobs, Manufacturing, Outsourcing, TPP

How the TPP Could Affect You and Your Business

On February 4, 2016, President Obama signed the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement on behalf of the United States. The TPP agreement has been in negotiation behind closed doors since 2010 between the United States and 11 other countries around…

Economy, Factory Closings, Jobs, Manufacturing, Outsourcing

Carrier Workers See Costs, Not Benefits, of Global Trade

INDIANAPOLIS — The fuzzy video, shot by a worker on the floor of a Carrier factory here in the American heartland last month, captured the raging national debate over trade and the future of the working class in 3 minutes 32 seconds. “This…

Consumer Products, Economy, Factory Closings, Food Products, Jobs, Manufacturing, Outsourcing

Nabisco Workers Continue Fight to Preserve Local Jobs

A beige apartment building at 73rd and Kedzie is ground zero of the Nabisco workers fight to keep their jobs. They’ve set up this empty apartment with a long table for meetings and keeping colleagues in the loop. From the front window,…

Economy, Factory Closings, Jobs, Manufacturing, Middles Class, Outsourcing

Carrier: Anger, Resignation as Massive Pay Gap Prompts Mexico Move

Carrier - Union leaders at an air conditioner factory in Indianapolis threatened with losing 1,400 jobs to Mexico said on Tuesday the plant's owner expects to pay Mexican workers $3 an hour compared to an average of more than $20 an hour for…

Economy, Factory Closings, Jobs, Manufacturing, Middles Class, Outsourcing, Slave Labor

Factories in The USA: 56K Lost During First Decade

In the week before Valentine’s Day, United Technologies expressed its love for its devoted Indiana employees, workers whose labor had kept the corporation profitable, by informing 2,100 of them at two facilities that it was shipping their…