Intel needed fresh thinking at the top. While it dominates the market for personal computers and the servers that power data centers, the company has been lapped in areas like smartphones.

The cuts will affect about 750 employees, including an Indiana mill GM and the company’s two top safety managers. “This is a company in flux,” the United Steelworkers Local 1014 president wrote. “I wish I could tell you...

Construction on the new plant is scheduled to start this summer, which production set for 2018, and about 2,800 new jobs south of the border by 2020.

While 215,000 jobs were added overall, manufacturing dropped almost 30,000 — and is now down 29,000 this year and 30,000 overall since December 2014.

No involuntary layoffs are planned, with 40% of the cuts coming from a voluntary program introduced in February, and the other 60% either vacant or shed through attrition.

Women in certain lower-paying occupations could easily make the transition to in-demand jobs on the shop floor, a new study finds.

    Has your workforce strategy during downturns jeopardized your company's--and the manufacturing industry's--ability to attract skilled workers?

Pratt & Whitney's North Berwick, Me., plant tackles the challenge of developing a new generation of skilled manufacturing employees.

The automaker is particularly interested in emerging connected car and vehicle intelligence technologies, along with novel human-machine interfaces.

The President is expected to ask for ideas, recruit coders in a public service program similar to the Peace Corps and, of course, field questions about the government's ongoing battle with Apple.