Manufacturing Talk Radio

Join co-hosts Tim Grady and Lew Weiss as they continue to examine the relationship between prison slave labor systems protected by state or federal governments that compete with U.S. manufacturers which have stolen American taxpayers jobs and forced plant layoffs or closures. Hear from guest Michael Mansh, president of Pennsylvania Apparel LLC who used to have a plant in Kentucky which they shut down after Federal Prison Industries pulled away government apparel contracts, wiping out 85 taxpayer jobs. Unicor and state prison systems continue to take work away using unfair competitive bidding that few manufacturers want to take issue with for fear of losing other government jobs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Prison strike actions are anticipated beginning Sept 9, 2016 in federal, state and city prisons and jails, along with juvenile and immigrant detention facilities over the issue of forced slave labor allowed under the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution adopted in 1865 and vastly expanded under an Executive Order by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935. Slavery has now expanded from punishment into a program to train inmates in skill sets to employ them after their release but is actually a major for-profit enterprise used by some of the biggest Corporations in America to obtain labor at hourly rates not seen since 1865, in direct competition with small and midsize manufacturers who have terminated employees, lost revenues and even lost their business to the prison-industrial complex.  Listen at mfgtalkradio.com as Tim Grady and Lew Weiss interview Azzura Crispino, Media Coordinator for the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee who discusses the aspects of racism, prison slavery, direct competition with American manufacturing and the work stoppage action at dozens of prison and detention facilities across America where OSHA rules are not enforced to protect incarcerated slaves Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mr. Brad Holcomb, Committee Chair of the ISM’s Manufacturing Report on Business(R) presents his insights on the latest Purchasing Manager’s Index and why it appears to be “a breather” from the above 50 midpoint that signals manufacturing expansion unless, as Chris Kuehl noted economist with Armada Corporate Intelligence and Economist for the FMA, it is a harbinger of things to come as his Credit Managers Index may portend.  Hear both sides of the manufacturing coin as co-hosts Tim Grady and Lew Weiss discuss how the industry seems to be doing and where it might be headed for the balance of 2016. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scott Paul, president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing sits down with Tim Grady and Lew Weiss to discuss 8 ways a divided Congress and White House can boost manufacturing, covering infrastructure, innovation, tax reform, China, Made in America, the opening of foreign markets, job training and energy independence.  You may have heard these topics here and there – now tune in for one concise overview of what is needed and how the AAM and other organizations are pushing harder and more frequently to move elected officials from their page to our page on Manufacturing Talk Radio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Manufacturers are losing contracts to Unicor, GEO, Deptcor and over a dozen other private prison operators, unable to compete with prison labor rates, or not even allowed to bid on some contracts under an unfair system permitted under the 13th Amendment to the U.S Constitution and launched in 1934 by President Roosevelt with the creation of Federal Prisons Systems (FPI) also known as Unicor.  The upbeat, flowery marketing language of these prison labor websites makes them sound as benevolent as Santa Claus despite underpinnings of longer prison sentences for non-violent offenders and a majority of inmates being black or Hispanic working for as little as 16 cents per hour. Hear about actual manufacturers who have lost business and been forced to cut jobs like Mickey Spooner, President of Allstate Office Interiors in Hamilton, New Jersey, or even been put at the brink of bankruptcy.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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How are leaders in Rust Belt cities and towns across America and Europe creating the renaissance from dilapidated factories to hotbeds of technological innovation? Find the answers as co-hosts Tim Grady and Lew Weiss interview Antoine van Agtmael, author of “The Smartest Places on Earth – Why Rustbelts Are the Emerging Hotspots of Global Innovation”. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join co-hosts Tim Grady and Lew Weiss on Manufacturing Talk Radio as they delve into the ISM’s Manufacturing Report on Business(R) with Brad Holcomb, Committee Chair for this illuminating monthly update on the state of manufacturing in the U.S. Then stay tuned for Chris Kuehl, FMA economist with Armada Corporate Intelligence as he provides his wit and spin on the state of manufacturing here and around the world, with an update on Brexit. Tim and Lew will wrap up the show with commentary on ExIm Bank and the Federal Follies! From serious to lighthearted, it’s great to hear their insights. Visit our site at mfgtalkradio.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are high schools equally preparing young men and young women for blue collar jobs?  Are they equally emphasizing career and technical training or going to college?  A study by April Sutton, Amanda Bosky and Chandra Muller would indicate that in blue-collar communities suffer severe wage penalties relative to their male peers and women from non-blue collar communities.  Listen to co-author Amanda Bosky and special guest Haley Stevens, Director of Workforce Development at UI Labs present the findings of “Manufacturing Gender Inequality in the New Economy: High School Training for Work in Blue-Collar Communities”. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How can manufacturers keep older technology relevant in a face of constantly changing innovation? Potomac Photonic’s CEO and President Mike Adelstein is with us to explain how choosing tools that enable the integration of traditional and new technologies is the key to innovative solutions and hear how your factory floor can stay in step. Then stay on as Chad Moutray, Chief Economist with the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) gives us his perspective on Brexit and what’s in store for manufacturers here and abroad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices