Number of manufacturing workers in RGV surges

MCALLEN, RGV – If Reynosa and Matamoros are included, the South Texas-Northern Tamaulipas border region has more than 200,000 workers in the manufacturing sector.

But, if Tamaulipas is excluded and the focus is only the Rio Grande Valley the number shrinks to around 13,000. Not that big a figure but the number is increasing, reports Mike Willis, executive director of South Texas Manufacturers Association.

Willis provides reports on the labor market for Workforce Solutions. In his report for April 2018, Willis reported:

“In the McAllen and Brownsville MSAs, the Manufacturing sector has very quietly added a total of 1,000 new jobs in the past year- an annual growth rate of 9.3 percent,” Willis said.

For the full report: https://riograndeguardian.com/number-of-manufacturing-workers-in-rgv-surges/