The U.S. manufacturing sector expanded last month at its fastest pace in almost 2-1/2 years, an industry report showed on Tuesday. The Commerce Department’s construction spending report, which had been expected at 10 a.m. EST, was delayed due to the government’s partial shutdown. READ MORE
New! Live Music! Tickets Still Available! Email: susan@awfs.org Event Information / Registration SoCal friends…are you attending the Young Furniture Associates (YFA) main event auction on Saturday, September 28 at the Anaheim Hilton? Enjoy a great dinner and bid on fantastic furniture at amazingly low prices – all proceeds go to the City of Hope Cancer Center, […]
Thank you to all of our sponsors, exhibitors, speakers and attendees for helping to make this year’s AWFS®Fair so exciting and successful! See you July 22-25, 2015.
On its website, WWJ-TV Detroit reports eight community colleges in Michigan have received a nearly $25 million grant from the “Department of Labor in order to coordinate training for manufacturing jobs.” Macomb Community College President Jim Jacobs said his college will use “9.6 million dollars of the grant to train students in machining, welding and production […]
THANK YOU to Woodcraft for your spectacular support of the Fresh Wood student woodworking competition and the WorldSkills Cabinetmaking Qualifying Trial at the 2013 AWFS Fair! Your efforts truly demonstrate that you value the students that will become our industry’s future leaders! Woodcraft Supports AWFS Student Competitions Parkersburg, W. VA. (PRWEB) August 21, 2013 — […]
As U.S. production costs drop, export manufacturing has become the unsung hero of the economic recovery, a new study shows. Americans may be fond of lamenting the decline of the country’s economic clout and the flood of “Made in China” goods, but they may soon have to find something else to complain about.
Beginning in the 1970s America’s high-paying manufacturing jobs in the steel, textile, electronics and automotive industries relocated first south to Latin America and then east to Asia. In what some dubbed “a global race to the bottom,” labor rights have dwindled all along the way and the American middle class, long sustained by those manufacturing […]
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Manufacturing Institute and Partners Increase Credentialed Workforce Industry-based certifications aim to close skills gap, increase access to employment, and develop future workforce Click here to see 2012 Key Milestones The Manufacturing Institute (the Institute) and its partners have announced significant progress towards achieving a five-year goal to award 500,000 industry-based credentials to individuals, positioning them for employment […]
The NAM’s A Manufacturing Renaissance: Four Goals for Economic Growth also highlights the importance of closing the skills gap. The NAM’s four-point plan for economic growth and jobs, which will enable the U.S. to compete and succeed in the global economy. Goal 1: The United States will be the best place in the world to […]
