Economic Scene: Labor Wants to Make Nafta Its Friend. Here’s the Problem.

August 22, 2017 Eduardo Porter ECONOMIC SCENE Can Nafta be re-engineered to raise workers’ wages? Organized labor thinks so. As the United States sets out to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement with Mexico and Canada, union officials are pinning...

Questions Emerge Over What Wisconsin Must Give for Foxconn Plant

By JULIE BOSMAN August 10, 2017 PARIS, Wis. — When Gov. Scott Walker announced last month that the electronics giant Foxconn had chosen Wisconsin as a site for its new factory, he was a picture of grinning, fist-pumping excitement. It would be the...

Culture Clash at a Chinese-Owned Plant in Ohio

By NOAM SCHEIBER and KEITH BRADSHER June 10, 2017 MORAINE, Ohio — When a giant Chinese glassmaker arrived here in 2014 and began spending what would become more than a half-billion dollars to fix up an abandoned General Motors plant, it...

Chinese Maker of Ivanka Trump’s Shoes Looks for Cheaper Labor

By KEITH BRADSHER June 1, 2017 DONGGUAN, China — The Chinese factory workers who make shoes for Ivanka Trump and other designers gather at 7:40 every morning to sing songs. Sometimes, they extol worker solidarity. Usually, they trumpet ties between...

Even Harley-Davidson Can’t Resist the Tug of Overseas Factories

By NEIL GOUGH May 23, 2017 HONG KONG — President Trump has held up Harley-Davidson as a pillar of American manufacturing. “We’re proud of you! Made in America, Harley-Davidson,” Mr. Trump said to the company’s leather-clad top...

Apple Announces $1 Billion Fund to Create U.S. Jobs in Manufacturing

By KATIE BENNER and NELSON D. SCHWARTZ May 3, 2017 SAN FRANCISCO — While on the campaign trail last year, Donald J. Trump lamented the loss of manufacturing jobs in the United States and set his sights on companies like Apple to help...