But the article about "factories buckling from a demand surge" also mentions "hiring slowed". The wage inflation chart trended down over the entire period you link, as did labour force participation chart.
The only positive for employment growth in your sources is a government crackdown enforcing sane work hours in the trucking industry, which seems to have caused the transport industry some trouble. Your links are not at all inconsistent with what the grandparent post is saying.
And
> There is actually very little employment growth.
Those are both false.
The US has added a million manufacturing jobs since 2011 and the 250,000 added over the last year or so is the most since 1998. The US bled manufacturing jobs non-stop from basically January 1999 to January 2011 (it literally had no positive gain over roughly 12 years). US manufacturing is booming to such an extent right now the production literally can't keep up with demand:
"U.S. Factories Are Showing Signs of Buckling From Demand Surge"
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-02/u-s-facto...
Labor demand is so extreme, we can't find enough truckers and it's holding back the economy:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-09/there-are...
Wage acceleration can in fact be found easily, it's right here:
Chart: https://i.imgur.com/lT00cme.png
"U.S. Private-Sector Wages Lodge Biggest Gain Since 2008"
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-27/u-s-emplo...
The prime age labor force participation rate - a critical metric - has shown a strong improvement in the last two years:
https://i.imgur.com/HcuLQHQ.png
So not only is wage growth accelerating, the strong economy has pulled a lot of prime age workers back into the economy. Nearly a million prime age workers have re-entered the labor force in 2.x years.
The U6 unemployment rate is also back to a normal level.