Henry County, Indiana - Workforce

TRAINING PROGRAMS

• Local employment and training
• Award-winning vocational welding

INDUSTRIAL COMPOSITION

• Automotive-related
• Stainless steel plate
• Pre-engineered and factory-built homes
• Metal fabricating
• Audio visual screens
• Computer structural hardware
• Agricultural support
• Textile products
• Publishing
• Ductile iron casting
• Vinyl wall coverings
• Most unions organized in the 1950's
• More plants non-union than unionized
• Chrysler (union) and Grede Foundries (non-union) combined efforts to bid for a Chrysler contract and were accepted

Source: www.midwestdevelopment.org 2/11/07