Instead of posturing for public display, the union should reflect on the fate of other industries where labor refused to acknowledge how conditions have changed in a globalized economy....More
Workers at a Caterpillar plant in Joliet, Ill., returned to work in August, concluding a bitter three-and-a-half-month strike. Members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers approved the six-year deal by a narrow margin. ...More
Manufacturers can expect renewed enthusiasm from unions in the wake of President Obama's successful re-election bid. Less certain is whether increased activity will reverse unions' declining fortunes -- especially in manufacturing....More
Porsche's executive board and its works council have 'agreed on appropriate measures for increased flexibility and productivity,' the company said....More
A decades-long battle to cripple unions in the United States has shifted to the heart of the labor movement as Michigan's Republican governor prepares to sign "right-to-work" legislation....More
New York district bankruptcy court requested the confidential mediation, aimed at resolving differences that forced operations to shut down last week....More
More than 975,000 mentions were made in presidential TV advertising about jobs, outsourcing, and trade generally or specifically involving China, according to a report released today by Kantar Media’s Campaign Media Analysis Group (CMAG) conducted for the AAM....More
Glad the election season is almost over? Well, it's not time to relax yet. In fact, employers will be confronting a number of important matters no matter who wins today's vote....More
Having read the title of this article, you may be wondering how it is possible that the eight-hour shift is no longer alive and well, considering it is the shift length your employees currently work. While it may not be gone yet, the eight-hour shift is definitely on the decline....More
The company, which manufactures products for Apple and Sony, made the admission following reports by a rights group and mainland media that students in an internship program at the plant had been under the legal age of 16....More
A labor court gave the Toyota workers permission to down tools from Wednesday, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa said in a statement late Tuesday....More
Manufacturing employment fell by 16,000 in September, the second month in row employment in the sector dropped.
Overall, the unemployment rate improved to 7.8%, the Labor Department reported, with 114,000 workers added to payrolls. Employment rose in health care, transportation and warehousing. The number of unemployed persons decreased by 456,000 in September to 12.1 million....More
The strike by more than 20,000 truck drivers demanding higher wages is now in its second week and has halted the delivery of goods across the country....More
Under the terms of the agreements with all three automakers, new employees would receive about $20 an hour in wages, down from $24 now, and take ten years to reach a top pay level of $34 an hour compared to the current six years....More
The protest came as President Francois Hollande met union members and promised three-tier negotiations involving the state, management and unions....More
Dialogue introducing new forecasting study on what the economy might look like in 2025 with a manufacturing resurgence. Video from the Aspen Institute....More
Manufacturing makes America strong. It makes families and communities strong. It provides national security. It gives us energy security. And for the 12 million men and women who work in manufacturing, it gives us pride....More
Christopher Barnatt of ExplainingComputers.com demonstrates how Big Data is transforming the business and industrial worlds and enabling new technologies and new breakthroughs that will help manufacturers work more efficiently than ever before....More
Beyond an initial novelty, 3D Printing could have a game-changing impact on consumer culture, copyright and patent law, and even the very concept of scarcity on which our economy is based....More
Christopher Barnatt of ExplainingTheFuture.com illustrates the inner workings of additive manufacturing machines and provides some real-life examples of how 3-D printing technology could dramatically change the manufacturing and retail industries as we know them today....More
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab break down the engineering and design challenges they faced during the Curiosity rover's complicated landing near the Martian equator on Aug. 5, 2012....More
