The American Printing Industry Association and the Bureau of Labor Statistics are "barbed"? The reason is actually the difference in the definition of the printing industry!
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The American Printing Industry Association told the Bureau of Labor Statistics: "Printing is still here. We are growing faster than ever."
Recently, Michael Makin, President and CEO of the American Printing Industry Association, issued the above statement in response to the commercial printing, screen printing and printing support activities announced by the US Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics becoming too small or in the “employment statistics database”. It’s too concentrated to track.
The American Printing Industry Association is disappointed that the Bureau of Labor Statistics has stopped tracking work related to commercial printing, screen printing and supporting printing activities, but is not surprised. About 800,000 workers in the printing, packaging, and publishing industries are also disappointed because they know that their work is related to the US manufacturing economy every morning when they go to work.
In fact, just last week, the Printing Industry and Printing Center of the American Printing Industry Association released a 2019 industry status report, predicting that the next year will be a favorable year for the printing industry, and total printing revenue will increase by about 1%. 2%, the profit of printers maintained at historical growth levels. With the continuous development of media and printers, printing and printing will continue to evolve, providing customers with a variety of processes, products and ancillary services. This encouraging news shows that the printing industry has a lasting vitality even in the face of postage uncertainty, tariff and trade policy impacts and the challenges of a large number of “paperless” initiatives.
The reason for this incident is not surprising because the American Printing Industry Association has repeatedly urged the Bureau of Labor Statistics to revise its outdated printing industry definition several times. Printing has evolved and will continue to evolve, and media and printers will continue to transform through a combination of processes, products and ancillary services. Since the Great Depression of 2008, this disagreement has taken place quickly, and the “old” work has given rise to new human resource needs in the industry. Unfortunately, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has proved that it is not interested in the industry's advancing with the times and the American Printing Industry Association's definition of modern industry definitions, but these definitions can more accurately reflect print as a key manufacturing still. Exist and flourish. Simply put, the data collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics is irrelevant, not related to print and graphic communications.
Although the Printing Industry and Printing Center of the American Printing Industry Association has not been directly affected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics' decision to terminate industry data collection, public policy decision makers often rely on the Bureau of Labor Statistics data when developing workforce development and training programs. According to the recent Printing Priorities Survey of the American Printing Industry Association, finding qualified technical workers to fill open and newly established positions remains a major issue for printing companies of all sizes. Therefore, the American Printing Industry Association will provide another offer to the Bureau of Labor Statistics to encourage the agency to reconsider its attitude towards the printing industry and possibly reintroduce new categories of “commercial prints” using modern, more appropriate definitions. Better reflect the economic value of the industry.