Tag Archive for: Manufacturing

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…

Nabisco Factory Workers Fight Back Against Layoffs
Employees at the Nabisco plant on Chicago’s Southwest Side face an uncertain future as the company hands out pink slips and starts moving parts of its operations to Mexico.
Parent company Mondelez International announced earlier this summer…

TPP: Another Nail in the Coffin of American Manufacturing
On January 25, 2016, the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) released a report on the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) trade agreement. The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) promptly released their commentary on the…

Why a Small Company Like WeatherTech Keeps Coming Back to the Super Bowl
Everyone's favorite big-spending automotive floor-mat manufacturer, WeatherTech, is back for its third straight Super Bowl—and will run the 30-second spot below in the first half of the game, after throwing down a challenge to two different…

Skills Gap: Why It’s Creating New Manufacturing Opportunities
Skills Gap - the difference in the skills required on the job and the actual skills possessed by the employees.
The United States unemployment rate remains strong at 7.8%, but in the manufacturing industry, demand is outpacing supply…

Schumer to Feds: Incorrect Use of ‘Made in America’ Label Hurting Central NY Company
Schumer: Feds are currently listing flatware and other products made by companies as 'American-Made' when they are actually produced overseas, putting companies that manufacture in the U.S., like Sherrill Manufacturing in Central, NY, at a disadvantage.…

Study Says: Walmart Imports From China Displaced 400,000 Jobs
Imports from China by Walmart, the nation’s largest retailer and biggest importer, eliminated or displaced over 400,000 jobs in the United States between 2001 and 2013, according to an estimate by the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive…

Closing Loopholes in Buy American Act Could Create up to 100,000 U.S. Jobs
By closing loopholes in the Buy American Act, the 21st Century Buy American Act will increase demand for U.S. manufactured goods and create at least 60,000 to 100,000 U.S. jobs. The Buy American Act requires “substantially all” direct purchases…

Sofidel, Italian Paper Manufacturer Announces Multiple US Investments
The Sofidel Group, a major paper manufacturer for sanitary and household use, announced on Nov. 5. 5 that it has made three investments across the U.S.
The Italian multinational, with its subsidiary Sofidel America, has acquired a converting…

Good Jobs Aren’t Coming Back
SPRING HILL, Tenn.—The hulking General Motors factory in this town south of Nashville undermines the complaints by politicians left and right that America doesn’t make things anymore.
A year ago, GM announced it was moving production…