Tag: jobs

November 16, 2020

There’s still about two months to go before Joe Biden is sworn in as the new president, but the former V.P. and longtime Senator isn’t wasting any time advocating for his “Build Back Better” plan to rebuild the nation’s struggling […]

June 17, 2020

After years of all talk and no action, Congress finally got to work on Wednesday on a $500 billion investment package to rebuild America’s bridges, roads, transit systems, and railways. The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee held a markup of […]

May 22, 2020

Members of Congress from both sides of the aisle agree: The coronavirus crisis proves it is time to get to work and bring America’s critical manufacturing home. Republican Sens. Marco Rubio (Fla.) and Josh Hawley (Mo.) joined Democratic Sens. Tammy […]

January 15, 2019

Four years ago, General Electric Co. (IW 500/6) made a commitment to win France’s approval to buy Alstom SA’s energy business: It would create jobs or pay a hefty fine. The Boston-based company pledged it would add 1,000 positions in […]

June 5, 2018

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The switch to electric cars puts 75,000 engine and gearbox manufacturing jobs at risk, a study commissioned by German trade unions and the auto industry showed. The auto industry accounts for 840,000 jobs in Germany, of which […]

August 18, 2017

The manufacturing sector has shown some growth over the past few years.  Since 2011, the sector has created jobs every year, a 6-year expansion that exceeds the 5-year expansion experienced 1994-1998, according to a new report from consulting firm Headlight Data. […]

June 7, 2017

While President Trump turns his attention to infrastructure this week (and um, tweets about some other stuff), lawmakers on Capitol Hill are pushing new legislation to encourage manufacturing job creation. Introduced by Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.), the Jobs & Trade Competitiveness Act […]

May 1, 2017

Trump rode into office pledging to shake things up for the working class. How’s that going? President Trump marks his 100th day in office on Saturday Jan. 29. He’s celebrating by holding a campaign-style rally in Pennsylvania, and there are even rumors […]

April 10, 2017

The sector has added 67,000 new jobs over the past four months. So… there’s a lot happening in the world right now. The United States launched a military strike against Syria. We have a new Supreme Court justice. It appears […]

March 22, 2017

But President Trump’s budget proposal would cut such programs. German Chancellor Angela Merkel came to Washington on Friday to meet with President Donald Trump for the first time. You probably already know how it went. Yeah. It was awkward. While […]

January 6, 2017

The final jobs numbers of 2016 were released by the Labor Department on Friday morning, and there was good news — 17,000 new factory jobs were created in December. That’s a big improvement from the past five months, which all […]

December 1, 2016

President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence plan to appear at Carrier’s Indianapolis factory on Thursday to announce a deal to keep nearly 1,000 jobs in Indiana, according to officials on Trump’s transition team and Carrier. The president-elect campaigned […]

November 29, 2016

The president-elect has been announcing negotiations on Twitter. It’s the Monday after Thanksgiving. Yours truly ate approximately 400 turkey sandwiches in the last 72 hours. When I wasn’t wolfing down some bird, I was reading about how President-elect Donald Trump […]

November 22, 2016

We’re just two weeks past the most contentious election in modern history. It’s still very raw for many Americans. And already I see a disturbing trend. One of the clear takeaways from the election — that so many Americans who feel left […]

August 17, 2016

Have you ever heard of the skills gap? The “skills gap” is a term that means: there aren’t enough qualified workers in the United States to fill vacant manufacturing jobs. Deloitte, a very big business consultancy, calls it “a sizeable gap between […]

August 16, 2016

You might have seen an article floating around pushing a “little reality check” on American manufacturing. Published by the Los Angeles Times and other Tribune publications, the piece by Don Lee rehashes the old, tired argument that automation is the […]

June 22, 2016

The White House’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) on Monday issued a report that raised a few eyebrows: The labor force participation rate for American men is dropping. This finding is a head scratcher. Unemployment is down. Ylan Mui at […]

March 11, 2016

As the presidential campaign heads into Ohio and other midwestern states, candidates on both sides of the aisle are talking up manufacturing job loss and trade. The candidates say they’ll bring back jobs from overseas — and over at Medium, […]

March 8, 2016

We have an update on what’s happening in the effort to fight back against offshoring in Indiana — and it’s clear we’ve got to keep up the pressure. United Technologies promised last week to return nearly $1.6 million in incentives to local and […]

December 30, 2015

DuPont Co. said it will cut about 28 percent of its workforce in its home state of Delaware in early 2016 as the chemical company proceeds with a merger with Michigan’s Dow Chemical Co. “The effect in Delaware will be […]