SCHAUMBURG – Another 3 million Americans filed for unemployment last week, Bloomberg reports Thursday. The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits topped 3 million for a seventh straight week, signaling little relief in sight ...
SCHAUMBURG, IL – The Technology & Manufacturing Association, an association of nearly 700 manufacturing companies with more than 30,000 employees in the greater Chicago region, today called on the Illinois General Assembly to immediately convene ...
The often-quoted “When the going gets tough, the tough get going …” is attributed to Joseph Kennedy, the father of the 35th president John F. Kennedy. And while there’s no real assurance that the elder ...
Illinois manufacturers continue to be among quiet heroes in the COVID-19 crisis. TMA member Assurance Technologies, Inc. was approached early on in the COVID-19 crisis to assist General Motors’ “Project V” in an urgent setup. ...
There’s a proposal circulating the halls of Congress that is intended to protect workers as they go back to work post COVID-19. It’s an amendment that OSHA would set new rules to enforce, according to ...
April 26, 2020 would have been Robert “Bob” Matz of Emerald Machine Inc’s 90th birthday. TMA is saddened to learn that Mr. Matz passed away July 29, 2019. Emerald Machine Inc., located at 4641 South ...
This week, Industry Week hosts an editorial by Keith B. Belton in which he congratulates the 2020 manufacturing sector for investing in technology, AI, IoT and robotics. Belton says those investments have been crucial in ...
CHICAGO — Thursday, Governors JB Pritzker (IL), Gretchen Whitmer (MI), Mike DeWine (OH), Tony Evers (WI), Tim Walz (MN), Eric Holcomb (IN) and Andy Beshear (KY) announced that they will work in close coordination to reopen ...
Technology & Manufacturing Association UPDATE ON NEW IL WORKERS COMPENSATION RULES During an emergency meeting of the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission (IWCC) on Wednesday, the Commission approved changes to the emergency rule advanced Monday, April ...
CHICAGO – Illinois Governor JB Pritzker declared Monday that any essential worker that contracts COVID-19 will be protected by employer-funded Workers’ Comp program. With Illinois’ policy that employees are not required to prove causation of ...
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