MCCONNELLISM AT WORK, MANUFACTURING JOBS CONTINUE TO DROP.
Jim Pence January 21st, 2008
Senator Mitch McConnell and his wife Elaine Chao, The Secretary Of Labor, continue to put on the Ritz, while our manufacturing base is being decimated, “McConnellized” and Chaoed Down”. Elaine Chao complains about the habits of American workers and their skills gap but does nothing to protect American workers from unfair trade policies and when it comes to safety for American workers Elaine Chao is nowhere to be seen.
I suggest “The Godfather Of Green” has done more for Communist China than Chairman Mao Tse-tung and is a Benedict Arnold when it comes to his constituents!
KENTUCKY LOSES 2.3% OF MANUFACTURING JOBS OVER YEAR
2006-2007
Manufacturers’ News Inc. said the state, Kentucky, has lost 2.3 percent of its manufacturing jobs, or almost 7,600, from September 2006 to September 2007. Kentucky has been losing manufacturing jobs since 2001, the company said in a news release.
Louisville is home to the most industrial jobs in Kentucky, accounting for 19 percent of the state’s manufacturing employment, or 60,966 jobs. That figure is down 4.9 percent, or 3,173 jobs, since September 2006.
MANUFACTURERS’ GUIDE REPORTS KENTUCKY INDUSTRIAL JOBS DOWN 11,942.
2005-2006
Kentucky lost 11,942 manufacturing jobs and 6 plants over the past 12 months according to the 2006 Kentucky Manufacturers Register, a manufacturers’ guide published annually by Manufacturers’ News, Inc., Evanston, IL.
The Blue Grass State is now home to 6,195 manufacturers employing 330,272 workers compared to the 6,201 plants and 342,214 workers reported a year earlier.
Kentucky enjoyed a net gain of 273 plants over the past 5 years but in the same time period lost 26,381 manufacturing jobs, according to Manufacturers’ News, which has been conducting the yearly census since 1983.
