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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

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

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

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

Walmart Imports From China Displaced 400,000 Jobs, a Study Says

Study Says: Walmart Imports From China Displaced 400,000 Jobs

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

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 research group that has long targeted Walmart’s policies.

Good Jobs Aren’t Coming Back

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

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. Read more

Boeing Planning To Build a Factory in China?

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

Shanghai (AFP) – Plans for a Boeing factory in China have been submitted to the government in Beijing, state-run media reported Tuesday ahead of President Xi Jinping’s US visit, where he will tour one of its plants. Read more

As Nabisco Ships 600 Jobs Out of Chicago to Mexico, Maybe It’s Time To Give Up Oreos

Nabisco Ships 600 Jobs to Mexico. Time To Give Up Oreos

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

I may have to give up one of my longest-standing indulgences: the dunking of an Oreo cookie in cold milk (whole is preferred). I don’t do this lightly, as I have been dunking those deliciously wicked rounds of chocolate and what I choose to believe is cream since I’ve been three. Read more

Nabisco to Cut Chicago jobs, Send Some Work to Mexico

in Consumer Products, Food Products, Jobs, Made in USA, Manufacturing, Outsourcing, Production/by The Made in America Movement Team

Mondelez International (Nabisco) will lay off half its 1,200 employees in its bakery on Chicago’s Southwest Side after deciding to invest significantly in a Mexico plant rather than its long-standing facility here. Read more

Mexico Bound? Ford Moving Two Key Models out of Michigan

in Automotive, Outsourcing/by The Made in America Movement Team

Ford said it will move production of the Focus and C-Max small cars from its Michigan Assembly Plant in 2018, with union officials saying they were told the work will leave the U.S.. Read more

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