Turning Around the American Manufacturing Industry

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Turning Around the American Manufacturing Industry
Posted by Nikki Sutton on June 23, 2011 at 6:41 PM EDT

Ed. Note: Watch President Obama speak on the global competitiveness of U.S. manufacturing from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh tomorrow at 11:00 AM EDT on WhiteHouse.gov/live.

Tomorrow, the President will speak at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on the importance of American manufacturing to grow the economy and create new jobs.

As the President spoke about earlier this month in Toledo, manufacturing is picking up all across the country. For example, Rhett Crooks is the owner of a precision tooling manufacturer in Vandergift, Pennsylvania that recently turned around and is rehiring. The President explained how manufacturers both large and small like Rhett’s are putting more Americans back to work:

And what's most important, all three American automakers are now adding shifts and creating jobs at the strongest rate since the 1990s. So far the auto industry has added 113,000 jobs over the past two years. In Detroit, Chrysler added a second shift at its Jefferson North plant. GM is adding a third shift at its Hamtramck plant for the first time ever. In Indiana, Chrysler is investing more than $1.3 billion in its Kokomo facilities. And across the country, GM plans to hire back every single one of its laid-off workers by the end of the year -- every single one.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/06/ ... g-industry