How to bring outsourced jobs back to Americans continues to be a story worthy of media coverage. There had been an uptick in manufacturing jobs returning to American shores even before President Obama made the issue a central part of his most recent State of the Union address. These are the kinds of jobs economists [...]
The Newark Advocate reporter L.B. Whyde’s profile of employment specialist Linda Hogue this past Monday illustrates the potential that can be tapped in young people with disabilities when given the opportunity to work. Hogue’s organization provides contract services for area businesses, where people with disabilities perform manual tasks that include jewelry-making and water bottle assembly. [...]
Sometimes, when examining how contract labor services provide people with disabilities the opportunity to acquire skills and experience that can help them transition to other work environments, we neglect the immediate benefit this type of work has on one’s bank account. But we are quickly reminded of the main reason many of us get up [...]
Frito-Lay, International Paper, and Bates-Troy are just three of about 15-20 companies benefiting from contract labor services provided by people with disabilities, according to a report filed last week by WBNG Channel 12 Action News reporter Matt Markham. Markham talks to Mary Jo Thorn, an official from the contract services provider, who says that her [...]
Massachusetts added 9,100 jobs in February, according to this story by New England Cable News reporter, Peter Howe. The state’s 6.9% unemployment rate is one of the best in the nation and is much better than the overall national rate of 8.3%. Such figures prompted a recent guest op-ed in The Boston Globe, appealing to [...]
The Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) kicked off its national “Should Be Made in America” campaign on Monday, designed to encourage state and local governments to use domestic labor and resources rather than outsourcing to other countries. BusinessNewsDaily.com contributor Chad Brooks writes that the AAM launched its campaign at the site of the San Francisco-Oakland [...]
One of the more provocative excerpts from Kaliya Franklin’s commentary, “Remploy, disabled workers and political correctness,” published earlier this month on the independent political website, politics.co.uk, concerned media coverage of the story that more than 1,700 people with disabilities would be losing their contract manufacturing jobs. After a blow-by-blow account of the BBCNews24 broadcast rife [...]
News that more than half of England’s Remploy factories were targeted for closure sent shockwaves across Great Britain earlier this month, even as some government officials argued that it would eventually present better employment opportunities for people with disabilities. Remploy is a British government-subsidized organization that primarily employs people with disabilities. The video portion of [...]
A Huffington Post editorial written last week by Jay Pelosky offered an upbeat perspective on the rebound of America’s manufacturing sector, both in the short-term and for the future. Pelosky’s bio identifies him as an investment strategy expert for J2Z Advisory LLC who also sits on the board of the World Policy Institute. In his [...]
A recent dispatch by Reuters correspondent Scott Malone revealed top executives from some of America’s leading manufacturers second-guessing earlier decisions by themselves and their peers to outsource labor. According to Malone, General Electric CEO Jeffrey R. Immelt’s annual letter to shareholders said the factors in the manufacturing equation have changed in a way that makes [...]