in rust belt, manufacturers add jobs, but factory pay isn’t what it used to be

This week, more than 1,000 applicants began queuing outside a former Hoover vacuum factory here, hoping to join a surprising trend in the heart of the country\'s manufacturing industry: new jobs.
The factory will produce EdenPure space heaters, vacuum cleaners, air purifiers and other small household appliances made in China in June.
The transformation of the factory and dozens of other factories
Suffering from the Rust Belt has provided vivid evidence of a recovery in US manufacturing, a key driver of the recovery.
Since the beginning of last year, factories across the country have added 250,000 jobs
Lost about 13% in the recent recession.
This is the first continuous increase in manufacturing employment since 1997.
But new hiring also reflects the emerging reality in the United States. S.
Manufacturing: wages in many jobs are not high compared to the past. Assembly-
Under the sponsorship of Suarez, the production line workers who will produce EdenPure products.
The industry will start at $7. 50 an hour.
This is a far cry from the $20 per hour most workers made with Hoover, who changed its century --
In 2007, old production lines in Mexico and El Paso concluded that it was too expensive to produce products in the industrial regions of the Midwest.
Robert Bao, executive director of AFL, said: \"communities and workers in Ohio have suffered damage over the past decade and thanks for the opportunity to make a living
Union Committee of CIO
\"But this is affected by reality.
One is Suarez\'s job, and the salary and welfare are far below the middle-
The class that was there before was not a substitute for the class that was left behind.
\"The recovery of the Rust Belt is driven by a range of factors, including the revitalized auto industry, innovation to boost workers\' productivity and the weak dollar, which makes US products more attractive to exports.
Lower labor costs are also a key factor.
But many potential workers, who braved cold rain outside the old Hoover factory on Monday, tried to find a job with benefits, did not complain.
Leslie Valentine, 52, said: \"I am a little disappointed with the wage rate . \" She rushed to the factory after hearing the job fair on the news.
\"But now I\'m out of work, so it looks good.
There will always be opportunities for improvement.
Wilmer Miller, 50, had worked as a plumber, and he was equally optimistic.
\"This is an opportunity,\" he said . \"
\"You must have a job and you must have a salary.
I will take less of these things.
It\'s good to see something open.
\"The fate of the Rust Belt has always been one of the highlights of the instability of recovery.
Nationwide, the annual growth rate of manufacturing output is estimated at 9.
The growth rate for the first three months of this year was 1%, while the overall economy grew by only one.
8%, according to the Federal Reserve.
\"Everyone has written off the manufacturing and Rust Belt, but now the manufacturing industry is the shining star of the United States. S.
\"Recovery,\" said Mark J.
Perry is a professor at the University of Michigan at Flint and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
The recovery has been going on for a long time.
Between 2000 and 6 million, the country lost nearly 2009 factory jobs, almost third in total.
These losses are based on a long decline that began in 1979, when the US manufacturing workforce peaked at 19. 5million.
At present, there are 11 in the country.
According to the Labor Department, 7 million manufacturing workers.
\"The first thing we\'re going through is recovering from a terrible recession,\" said Robert E . \"
Scott, senior economist at the Institute of Economic Policy.
\"We still have a long way to go before we climb out of this hole.
\"Manufacturing growth is particularly evident in states such as Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Ohio, where the steel industry is in recession and later a sharp decline in the automotive industry
Prior to the recession, related and other factory work turned most of the region into an economic basket.
Now the unemployment rate in these states is falling, and the unemployment rate in some states is at or below the national average.
Economists say the recovery in manufacturing is also crucial to the fate of the vast majority of American workers who are not university graduates.
As a whole, the average wage for factory work is about 10% higher than other jobs in the economy.
But while manufacturers have been thriving and job opportunities have begun to decline, some analysts and union leaders are concerned that workers are not fully sharing the benefits.
GM and Ford recently announced their highest earnings in more than a decade.
Goodyear recorded sales in the first quarter of this year.
Other manufacturers, including Caterpillar, which manufactures construction equipment, and Timken, a professional steel and bearing manufacturer, reported healthy sales and revenues in the first three months of 2011.
At the same time, newly hired auto workers earn $14 an hour, plus benefits, about half the salary of a senior auto worker.
Many experts and labor leaders worry that wage premiums for factory workers are falling.
A recent report by Boston Consulting Group predicts that as China\'s labor costs rise sharply and the yuan\'s exchange rate rises slowly, the United States is on the verge of a \"manufacturing renaissance.
The report says these forces are joining forces to make the United States one of the \"lowest manufacturing costs in developed countries\"
A prediction that is not generally regarded as good news.
\"It\'s not clear whether the growing manufacturing jobs are satisfactory,\" said Susan R . \"
An economist at the University of Western Reserve.
Ben Suarez, founder and CEO of Suarez
Industries, a manufacturer of EdenPure and other household products, said, \"Everyone wants to make it in the United States.
What prompted the company to move the factory overseas was \"the cost of doing it \".
He decided to move manufacturing back from China because it would take two months for factories from China to bring products to market.
This lag caused a headache in his weather supply and inventory.
Sensitive products, especially his signature space heater.
As the cost of making products in China and shipping them home starts to soar, these problems are becoming more and more unbearable.
Last year, when he started manufacturing some heaters at a temporary factory in Beiguang, he noticed that their sales were 30% higher than those made in China, he said, it\'s just because the labels are made in the United States.
At that time, his company was able
Design the space heater so need less peoplehours to build.
Still, Suarez says his production costs here are higher than in China.
Still, he said he was happy to bring his work home, adding that he might hire up to 2,500 workers over the next 18 months.
But he added that his
The Union store will be commensurate with the skills that the workers bring to the assembly line.
If he does this again, his products will not be competitive, he said.
For a relatively simple job of assembling a space heater, this means that many workers will make $7. 50 to $8.
At the recent job fair, $50 per hour, although some computer programmers earn $16 per hour.
Suarez is profitable-
Last year\'s sharing program meant an average of $22,000 for the company\'s 700 employees, but many of his new factory workers were technically employees of manufacturing contractors hired by Suarez and did not earn a profit share.
\"No one wants to create prosperity, does not want to help people,\" Suarez said, recalling that he \"grew up on the wrong side of town,\" working as a meat cutter and steel worker at Akron University.
However, he added, \"The amount of money we can pay depends on the skill level required for the job.