Alabama companies are hiring more than 7,000 workers; Here’s how to apply

The Huntsville Times ^ | August 23, 2019 | William Thornton

[2ndDivisionVet]

This week’s announcement of another auto supply plant in Alabama illustrates a pertinent fact: Multiple manufacturers are looking for workers here.

Japan’s Vuteq announced Wednesday it will hire 200 workers for its first production location in Alabama, to be built near Huntsville’s Mazda-Toyota factory, currently under construction.

But many other jobs - from automotive to aerospace - are available at the moment in Alabama. And it comes at a time when the state in July recorded its lowest unemployment rate and its highest number of people employed. About 2.1 million people currently have jobs in Alabama, and two of the hottest markets are transportation equipment manufacturing, which employs about 66,600, and motor vehicle manufacturing, with 14,100, according to the Alabama Department of Labor.

Tara Hutchison, Labor Department communications director, said the department recorded 2,811 job ads for all in-state manufacturing positions on online sites. So far this year, there have been 18,788 manufacturing job ads posted. There were 26,220 for 2018.

[Eddie01]

Why are we 50 50 as a country?
How could 50% be so retarded?
Supremely faulty. The left hopes for submission.
A belief in man over God.
Look.
We all may need to realize this will slip to the point of hopelessness.
Then chaos.

[bigbob]

As BCG predicted 10 years ago, reshoring is going to disproportionately favor right-to-work states with business-friendly tax and regulations.

It ain’t rocket science.

[Alas Babylon!]

Are all the new jobs in Huntsville and Madison county???

We need some in the rest of the state. Especially the Southern quarter.

[pepsionice]

There’s a path laid out by Huntsville going back almost 20 years. The school system has been renovated and impartial management now runs it. Lots of communication and technology companies are moving in. Then you got that mayor (Battle), and that guy is working around the clock to entice companies to move in.

It sucks for the rest of the state, I’ll agree. But I think that Mayor Battle is around 50-percent of why all these projects are going on, and companies just feel positive about this Madison/Huntsville area. The guy ought to be governor of the state.

Oddly enough, it’s had a ripple affect and lots of people live up to an hour away...even up into Tennessee, far east and west of Madison, and down to Gadsden.

[MacNaughton]

5 … The guy ought to be governor of the state. …

On April 27, 2017, Battle announced that he would run in the 2018 gubernatorial election in the state of Alabama, running as a Republican. Battle is quoted as saying "We're not just in a battle for Alabama's values; we're in a battle for Alabama's future; I'm running for governor because I'm ready to lead that fight." On June 5, 2018, Battle lost the Republican primary, coming in second behind incumbent Kay Ivey.

[pepsionice]

A lot of people around Huntsville see Mayor Battle as a Trump-like character, without all the Trump-charm. Battle seems to wake up every single day and plot....how can I introduce another 1,000 jobs into the region?

He aims at things that hype up companies...low crime, improving transportation infrastructure, making the airport a major plus-up, and introducing things that make the city attractive for the younger generation.

If you left Huntsville back in the 1980s, and came back today...it’s just not the same city. The current unemployment rate (July numbers) is 2.8-percent. Any kid graduating high school (even 50 miles away) and getting a year or two of technical studies or community college...is virtually guaranteed a job now. There is so much pro-Battle view in the region that I think locally, he could carry 80-percent of the North Alabama vote. But beyond that region...no one knows the guy or his record.

[blam]

"We need some in the rest of the state. Especially the Southern quarter."

Got some here:

Production Ramp-Up At Airbus (Mobile) Alabama Factory Could Add 600 Jobs

This is a ramp-up related to the new facilities to manufacture the Bombardier passenger aircraft.

[Alas Babylon!]

I should have been more precise in my geography. What I meant was the Black Belt—from Russell County in the East across to Washington County in the West.

It would go a long way to end poverty in Alabama.

[blam]

Chrysler/Fiat has announced the building of a new factory in Detroit, a city where 46% cannot read/write.

I think the Black Belt (named for the soil) has a similar problem with education.

[Alas Babylon!]

Also, Bill, there’s really not a lot of people in the BB counties beside Montgomery, which is really just another black urban center, like B’Ham, Mobile or Atlanta.

The bigger problem for the BB counties is there is just not a lot of people in them to begin with. I often drive to Valdosta, Georgia area (where I had some family) and Macon, Russell, Bullock and Butler counties are almost wilderness...

Counties in Alabama by population (bottom 3rd):

Macon County - 18,963
Henry County - 17,164
Washington County - 16,756
Fayette County - 16,546
Hale County - 14,952
Cleburne County - 14,924
Lamar County - 13,918
Crenshaw County - 13,913
Clay County - 13,492
Sumter County - 13,040
Choctaw County - 12,993
Conecuh County - 12,395
Wilcox County - 10,986
Coosa County - 10,581
Bullock County - 10,362
Lowndes County - 10,358
Perry County - 9,574
Greene County - 8,422

[blam]

I never realized that the populations of those counties was so low.
I remember reading that one of these counties voted 80% for Al Gore....makes a little more sense now.