The latest Unions’ Rising Political Influence Shaping Campaign Strategy
As we approach the 2024 presidential election, labor unions are becoming an increasingly important factor in shaping the political landscape. Union membership may have declined from its peak of 35% in the 1950s to 11% today, but support for unions…
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More Solar Panels to be Made In USA
According to CleanTechnica, solar power manufacturer First Solar announced a $1.2 billion expansion plan, including up to $1 billion to add a fourth factory to the company’s roster in a state to be named later. About $185 million will also…
Read MoreCanadian battery maker to start manufacturing in the US
According to PV Magazine, Canadian battery developer Zinc8 Energy Solutions announced its plans to begin battery production in the United States incentivized by manufacturing production credits within the Inflation Reduction Act. Zinc8 Energy Solutions has developed a proprietary flow battery…
Read MoreThe supply chain is on a collision course with disruption — and opportunity
Until fairly recently, the majority of Americans didn’t think twice about the supply chain. If we wanted something, we would put it on a shopping list, go to the store, and somehow that thing would just… be there. The phrase…
Read MoreReshoring high-tech jobs accelerates as supply chain woes continue
Marketplace has an article quoting the Reshoring Initiative, who noted that American companies are on pace to reshore nearly 350,000 jobs this year, the highest number in recent history. As we have said in this blog for some time, global manufacturing and…
Read MoreA bipartisan bill you never heard of will do wonders for the supply chain
All the rage in Washington is around the Inflation Reduction Act. However, a bipartisan bill that was recently signed into law, called the Ocean Shipping Reform Act, will do more for supply chains — and, ironically for inflation — than…
Read MoreThe U.S. supply chain is facing two big trade hurdles
CNBC reports that the US supply chain is now facing two separate hurdles: one in Europe, the other in China. First, a heatwave in China has shut down key manufacturing facilities there. Second, negotiations between the trade union verdi and…
Read MoreTime to reshore manufacturing? Global supply chain reconfiguration to persist through 2030
Yahoo! News reports that the global supply chain is going to take at least another eight years to be reconfigured. As we have said quite extensively, the supply chain is in chaos. And there doesn’t seem to be an end…
Read MoreIs “friendshoring” the future of reshoring?
The Guardian put out an interesting take on reshoring, instead framing it as “friendshoring.” What is friendshoring? Basically, it means that the US and its strategic partners should create trade routes with partners who broadly share our values, instead of…
Read MoreOne of the Biggest Supply Chain Issues Right Now: Talent
According to Forbes Tech Council, roughly $900 billion in tech deployments fail every year because people are not trained or qualified to operate them. Apparently, artificial intelligence efforts often fail because although we upgrade our technology, we fail to upgrade our…
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