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Nabisco Workers Continue Fight to Preserve Local Jobs

in Consumer Products, Economy, Factory Closings, Food Products, Jobs, Manufacturing, Outsourcing/by The Made in America Movement Team

A beige apartment building at 73rd and Kedzie is ground zero of the Nabisco workers fight to keep their jobs. Read more

House votes to penalize corporations leaving Indiana for Mexico

in Economy, Factory Closings, Jobs, Manufacturing, Public Policy/by The Made in America Movement Team

The Indiana House approved an amendment to Senate Bill 308 on Tuesday that penalizes companies like Carrier Corp., which is moving 1,400 Hoosier jobs to Mexico. Read more

January Manufacturing Orders Showed Best Growth In 10 Months

in Economy, Jobs, Manufacturing/by The Made in America Movement Team

The latest monthly manufacturing numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau reflected a strong start to 2016 as new orders for durable goods increased by nearly 5 percent. Read more

State, Manufacturing, How, Build, Future

State of Manufacturing: How to Build for the Future

in Economy, Education, Jobs, Manufacturing, Skills Gap, STEM, Technology/by The Made in America Movement Team

Jay Timmons was preaching to the “manufacturing” choir in GlaxoSmithKline’s sun-drenched lobby at its Navy Yard offices. Read more

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

in Economy, Factory Closings, Jobs, Manufacturing, Middles Class, Outsourcing/by The Made in America Movement Team

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 the U.S. workers. Read more

Obama Signs Law Banning Imported Goods Produced by Forced Labor

in Economy, Jobs, Manufacturing, Slave Labor/by The Made in America Movement Team

President Obama signed into law Wednesday a provision banning the import of good made by child and forced labor. Read more

Factories in American: 56K Lost During First Decade

Factories in The USA: 56K Lost During First Decade

in Economy, Factory Closings, Jobs, Manufacturing, Middles Class, Outsourcing, Slave Labor/by The Made in America Movement Team

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 factories, their jobs, their communities’ resources to Mexico. Read more

Dumping Crackdown Called A Great Day for Steel

Dumping Crackdown: New Law Cracks down on Steel Dumpers

in American Made, Economy, Jobs, Made in USA, Manufacturing/by The Made in America Movement Team

President Barack Obama signed a customs bill that contains added protections for the domestic steel industry, whose advocates hailed it as a “good news day” and even a “great day.” The new law will crack down on steel dumping. Read more

Nabisco Factory Workers Fight Back Against Layoffs

in Economy, Jobs, Manufacturing, Outsourcing/by The Made in America Movement Team

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. Read more

TPP: Another Nail in the Coffin of American Manufacturing

in Economy, Jobs, Manufacturing, Production, Public Policy, TPP/by The Made in America Movement Team

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 Peterson Institute report the same day, which was based on oral and written testimony CEO Michael Stumo had given to the U. S. International Trade Commission on January 15, 2016. Read more