What's New

• Read the Institute for America's Future report, Making It in America: Building the New Economy: Where We're Going. How We'll Get There.
  
• Read the Blue Green Alliance report, Building the Clean Energy Assembly Line: How Renewable Energy Can Revitalize U.S. Manufacturing and the American Middle Class.
  
• Read the Alliance for American Manufacturing report, An Assessment of Environmental Regulation of the Steel Industry in China.
  
• Read the Economic Policy Institute briefing paper, Squandering the Blue-Collar Advantage.
• Find out which companies are sending jobs overseas with Working America’s Job Tracker.
  
  
  

Facts & Stats

• Average hourly compensation for manufacturing workers was $24.30 in 2001, compared with $19.74 in service-producing sectors-and more info at AFL-CIO Facts & Stats.
  
  
  

Related Topics

• AFL-CIO Industrial Union Council.
• Agenda for a strong manufacturing base.
• More information on the fight for global fairness.