Here are several measures of manufacturing employment. ADP suggests continued deterioration, while QCEW (through March) fell as official employment rose.

Figure 1: Manufacturing employment from CES (black), implied preliminary benchmark for March (gray square), ADP (brown), and QCEW seasonally adjusted by author (blue), in 000’s, s.a. Seasonal adjustment using X-13 in logs. Source: BLS, ADP via FRED, BLS, and author’s calculations.