Manufacturing

Hard industries, hard work, and big opportunities

Recent supply-chain disruptions and second thoughts about China’s manufacturing dominance are likely to boost domestic industry and exacerbate an existing dearth of skilled trade workers.

US Steel building $3B mill in Arkansas

U.S. Steel Corporation has announced it will spend $3 billion to build a new mill in Osceola, Arkansas that is expected to create at least 900 full-time direct and indirect jobs with annual average wages of at least $100,000.

Supply chain problems show signs of easing

Global supply chain woes are beginning to recede, but shipping, manufacturing and retail executives say that they don’t expect a return to more normal operations until next year and that cargo will continue to be delayed if Covid-19 outbreaks disrupt key distribution hubs.

The Hoffa era is over as a new top negotiator is coming to the Teamsters

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is set to elect this week its first new leader in more than two decades. With nearly 1.4 million members, it is one of the largest unions in the country, representing workers from delivery drivers to airline staff to warehouse employees.

EXPLAINER: Why quitting coal is so hard?

In the run-up to the U.N. climate talks in Glasgow, host Britain announced one of its goals of the conference was to consign coal to history. That turned out to be easier said that done

California shipping backlog hits manufacturing businesses

The shipping backlog at the Los Angeles and Long Beach, California, ports is not expected to ease up any time soon. Many western manufacturing and production companies ship in products from overseas by ship, and many of their products have been sitting on those ships for weeks to months.