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    The latest on manufacturing hiring trends, the skills gap, workforce best practices and labor issues.

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    Education / Training

    Hands-on Programs Help Manufacturing-Inclined Students Connect the Dots

    Oct. 14, 2024
    These efforts focus on broadening the talent pipeline and nourishing that spark for creating things and using new tech.
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    Labor / Employment Policy

    Kentucky EV Battery Builders Launch UAW Campaign

    Nov. 20, 2024
    According to the autoworkers' union, a supermajority of workers at BlueOval SK in Kentucky have signed union cards.
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    Compensation Strategies

    Despite Demands, Pensions Unlikely to Return

    Nov. 13, 2024
    Striking workers at Boeing, General Motors, and others requested a return to defined-benefit pension plans, but yesterday’s retirement plan shows no signs of returning.
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    Boeing Strike Ends with Workers Accepting Significant Pay Raises

    Nov. 5, 2024
    Boeing strike concludes as workers agree to significant pay raises, allowing aircraft production to restart. The 33,000 employees had been on strike since September 13, seeking...
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    Education / Training

    We’re Women Leaders Answering the Call for Investment in Girls

    Oct. 11, 2024
    On International Day of the Girl, Cummins Chair and CEO Jennifer Rumsey and Rise Up Founder and CEO Dr. Denise Raquel Dunning share their message of accelerating gender equality...

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    Production Pulse: MFG Day 2024, Are Manufacturers Attracting the Workforce of the Future?

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    A group of manufacturing editors and a representative of The Manufacturing Institute discuss how industrial companies can recruit future workers and some of the challenges they...
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    Perception of Manufacturing Trade Work Trails Many Other Sectors

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    The 2024 Perception of the Trades report from Endeavor Business Intelligence shows households cooling on the idea of working on machinery or welding.