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.
Workers at a French greetings card firm on Friday sequestered the head of their company and the chief of the Dutch firm which owns it after sacked employees were told they would not get their dues....More
The switch to four 10-hour days instead of five eight-hour days means less overtime pay, a shifting schedule and the regular loss of Saturdays off....More
The China Labor Watch report said employees at Samsung supplier plants in China worked up to five times the legal overtime limit and were denied basic labor rights....More
According to the most recent data from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, violence caused 780 fatalities in 2011, 458 of them homicides....More
The ruling drew swift reaction from the National Association of Manufacturers and others organizations, which have argued that the federal labor board has been far exceeding its authority in recent years....More
Any politicians still celebrating their tiny victory in heading off the fiscal cliff need look no farther than today's federal jobs report to know that the real work of healing the economy remains ahead of them.
Ball State economist Michael Hicks said today’s job report underscores his belief that recovery from the Great Recession will be anemic for the long term....More
The Danish model of mixing flexibility for employers, who can hire and fire personnel easily, with social security for workers, was credited with virtually eradicating unemployment in the Nordic nation, before the financial crisis hit....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
