Manufacturing Jobs

By Annalyn Censky Don't just call it a low-wage recovery. It's true that the economy has added a lot of low-paying jobs over the last two years. Restaurants and bars, which pay a median wage of just $9 an hour, have accounted for 15 percent of all the jobs created in the recovery. Retailers, which pay ...

The recession has decimated many fields, but the manufacturing sector -- once given up for dead -- is making a big comeback, thanks in part to a revived U.S. auto industry. It's greatest among computer-controlled machine tool operators, an occupation that now has more workers than in 2007, according to a new ...

There is no shortage of industries hard hit by the recent recession, which resulted in millions of Americans losing jobs. But with the economy making a comeback, some industries are now showing robust growth, according to a new report released this week. The study, prepared by Economic Modeling Specialists ...

By Christopher S. Rugaber The issue: U.S. multinational companies have taken advantage of lower trade barriers over the past 15 years to shift jobs and production to lower-wage countries, a practice generally known as outsourcing. That's cut costs for consumers and helped those companies grow, which ...

Four of the largest U.S. manufacturers on Monday unveiled plans for a new group committed to train military veterans to work in the manufacturing sector. General Electric Co., Alcoa Inc., Boeing Co. and Lockheed-Martin Corp. said they would provide financial support to the "Get Skills to Work Coalition." ...

By Parija Kavilanz NEW YORK -- President Obama last week promised a boom in manufacturing and 1 million new jobs if he is reelected. But is the boom for real? For high-paying, skilled manufacturing jobs, it just might be. The number of job openings for skilled factory workers has increased 38 ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Lexmark is cutting 1,700 jobs, or almost 13 percent of its workforce, and says that it will stop making inkjet printers as part of a drive to cut costs as it deals with shrinking sales of inkjets. The printer and software company said Tuesday that it will close its inkjet supply plant in ...

By Parija Kavilanz NEW YORK -- Northeast Indiana has a peculiar problem. There are hundreds of factory jobs ready for the taking as the area's manufacturing sector has come back to life after the recession. ...

By Erik Schelzig CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- Volkswagen says it will create 800 new jobs at its Chattanooga plant to ramp up production of the Passat. The German automaker said Thursday's announcement brings the total new positions at the plant to 1,000 this year. ...

By Ken Thomas WASHINGTON (AP) -- Praising manufacturing jobs, President Barack Obama was outlining ways of pairing factory output with university research in a bid to bring jobs back to the U.S. and help companies innovate. Obama was traveling Friday to a manufacturing plant run by aircraft engine maker ...

By Martin Crutsinger WASHINGTON -- Businesses slashed spending on machinery and equipment in January after a tax break expired, pushing orders for long-lasting manufacturing goods down by the largest amount in three years. ...

By Ken Thomas WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pointing to a rebound in manufacturing, President Barack Obama on Wednesday is visiting a Milwaukee plant that has brought back jobs to the United States. ...

CHICAGO -- Toyota says it will expand its factory in Princeton, Ind., and add 400 jobs so it can build more Highlander SUVs. The hiring and expansion will come next year. ...

By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON, Oct 12 (Reuters) - U.S. manufacturers are failing to fill thousands of vacant jobs, surprising when 14 million people are searching for work. ...

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At least one major U.S. company is on a hiring roll. GE just announced a $56-million investment in a new 300,000-square-foot aviation plant, which will create 250 new full-time jobs, not to mention the construction positions necessary to build it. ...

DETROIT -- Top U.S. tire maker Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. stopped production at its manufacturing facility in Union City, Tenn., and will close the facility, the company said on Monday. The plant has about 1,800 workers and is a top employer in the city of about 10,500. Goodyear had planned to shut the ...

By Erica Werner WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will tout manufacturing as a key to America's economic success during a trip to Iowa, as he seeks to counter criticism of his policies by Republican presidential candidates who have descended on the state. The trip Tuesday is Obama's first to Iowa since ...

By Julie Pace PITTSBURGH -- Imagining advances from lighter cars to smarter robots, President Barack Obama is announcing a $500 million project to spur high-technology manufacturing, a sector of U.S. industry that presidential advisers say has lost ground to such competitors as Germany and Japan. ...

BEDFORD, Ind. -- General Motors Co. is investing $49 million in its Bedford, Ind., plant, a move that will help to create or keep 91 jobs. Wednesday's news is part of an effort GM announced May 10 to create or retain about 4,000 jobs by investing $2 billion in 17 factories in eight states. The auto maker ...