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:: Thursday, July 15, 2004 ::
Tooling craft rapidly vanishes By Louis Aguilar / The Detroit News
About 4,000 — one-third — of the country’s tool and die shops have perished since 2000, wiping away 100,000 jobs or more, according to the National Tooling and Machinist Association, an industry trade group. In Michigan, more than 16,000 tool and die jobs have disappeared since 1997, according to the state labor department.
Fewer than 10,000 tool and die shops remain in the United States, the national toolmakers group estimates. National data about the number of toolmakers’ positions that remain is expected to be released this month by the U.S. Department of Labor.
“This kind of downturn and this type of job loss has never occurred,” said Matthew Coffey, president of the national machinists group. “The automotive sector is particularly hard hit.”------------------------------------------- posted 6:22 AM :: reference link ::
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