Eight years ago, 12,300 people worked in transportation manufacturing in Bay, Midland, and Saginaw counties. That compares to 6,000 at the end of 2007, the most recent figures available.

Those losses account for nearly the entire seven-year decline in total manufacturing jobs in the three counties.

Other manufacturing sectors -- including chemicals, food processing, and metal fabrication -- have held relatively steady over the same time period.

Jobs in chemical manufacturing, which are driven primarily by Midland-based Dow Chemical Co. and Bay County’s Dow Corning Corporation, even recorded slight increases in the past three years.

“Those are jobs that are manufacturing jobs, but you need an associate’s degree to get them,” Oberski said.

Job data from the Michigan Department of Labor & Economic Growth shows chemical manufacturing jobs in the Tri-Cities increased from 4,616 in 2005 to 4,730 in 2007.

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