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Industry reporting, member spotlights, and operational guidance from ACWI. Every article from our archive is here — 1,254 posts going back to 2014.
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In a decision issued late last year the National Labor Relations Board provided the perfect example of its endemic bias in favor of organized labor during the Obama Era. In 2015 the board shortened the period for unions to announce and then hold a…
The hours-of-service 34-hour restart provision was essentially useless in promoting safety, a Department of Transportation study has found – a finding that essentially kills the provision. Although the study was not yet published, the DOT Inspector General…
In President Trump’s speech to the nation on Feb. 28 the reference to his maternity leave proposal as parental leave suggest new fathers will be included. A campaign promise suggested by his wife Melania the plan would provide up to six weeks of paid…
President Trump renewed his commitment to spending $1 trillion on improving America’s physical infrastructure in his Feb. 28 speech to the nation and acted quickly to put the program on course. On March 8 Trump met with business leaders at the White House to…
Changing demographics, evolving consumer demands and growing competition all will exert pressure on the supermarket industry in 2017. “Demographics will continue to change and broaden,” expanding with the country’s population of “multicultural consumers” –…
Retail sales will grow between 3.7 and 4.2% in 2017 compared to last year, according to a National Retail Federation forecast. NRF expects online and other non-store/online sales, which also are included in the overall number, to increase between 8 and 12%.…
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission proposed a public guidance aimed at reducing what it perceives as the all-too-common incidence of sexual harassment in the workplace. The commission said that in fiscal year 2015 – the most recent year with data…
President Trump has promised major reductions in government regulations on businesses, but the Occupational Safety & Health Administration could be spared the big knife. Both as a candidate and after he was sworn in as President, Trump declared that he will…
Congress is poised to overturn rules mandating a public “blacklist” of federal contractors who have pending and settled labor charges against them. The rules stemmed from a 2014 Obama executive order mandating changes regarding federal contractors which was…
In spite of eight years of strenuous efforts by labor unions and their allies in federal, state and even local governments, unions’ overall membership continues to erode while they fight furiously to expand their presence in the logistics industry. Only…
The current industrial real estate expansion is one for the record books, according to Cushman & Wakefield. U.S. industrial markets absorbed 63.6 million square feet (MSF) of space 2016’s final quarter, propelling net absorption for the year to a…
A study by IBM and the National Retail Federation found that almost all members of Generation Z -- born between the mid-1990s and early 2000s -- actually prefer to shop in bricks-and-mortar stores. With the global Gen Z population set to reach 2.6 billion by…
Blog
Industry reporting, member spotlights, and operational guidance from ACWI. Every article from our archive is here — 1,254 posts going back to 2014.
Showing 992 posts in Warehouse and Logistics Newsletter.
In a decision issued late last year the National Labor Relations Board provided the perfect example of its endemic bias in favor of organized labor during the Obama Era. In 2015 the board shortened the period for unions to announce and then hold a…
The hours-of-service 34-hour restart provision was essentially useless in promoting safety, a Department of Transportation study has found – a finding that essentially kills the provision. Although the study was not yet published, the DOT Inspector General…
In President Trump’s speech to the nation on Feb. 28 the reference to his maternity leave proposal as parental leave suggest new fathers will be included. A campaign promise suggested by his wife Melania the plan would provide up to six weeks of paid…
President Trump renewed his commitment to spending $1 trillion on improving America’s physical infrastructure in his Feb. 28 speech to the nation and acted quickly to put the program on course. On March 8 Trump met with business leaders at the White House to…
Changing demographics, evolving consumer demands and growing competition all will exert pressure on the supermarket industry in 2017. “Demographics will continue to change and broaden,” expanding with the country’s population of “multicultural consumers” –…
Retail sales will grow between 3.7 and 4.2% in 2017 compared to last year, according to a National Retail Federation forecast. NRF expects online and other non-store/online sales, which also are included in the overall number, to increase between 8 and 12%.…
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission proposed a public guidance aimed at reducing what it perceives as the all-too-common incidence of sexual harassment in the workplace. The commission said that in fiscal year 2015 – the most recent year with data…
President Trump has promised major reductions in government regulations on businesses, but the Occupational Safety & Health Administration could be spared the big knife. Both as a candidate and after he was sworn in as President, Trump declared that he will…
Congress is poised to overturn rules mandating a public “blacklist” of federal contractors who have pending and settled labor charges against them. The rules stemmed from a 2014 Obama executive order mandating changes regarding federal contractors which was…
In spite of eight years of strenuous efforts by labor unions and their allies in federal, state and even local governments, unions’ overall membership continues to erode while they fight furiously to expand their presence in the logistics industry. Only…
The current industrial real estate expansion is one for the record books, according to Cushman & Wakefield. U.S. industrial markets absorbed 63.6 million square feet (MSF) of space 2016’s final quarter, propelling net absorption for the year to a…
A study by IBM and the National Retail Federation found that almost all members of Generation Z -- born between the mid-1990s and early 2000s -- actually prefer to shop in bricks-and-mortar stores. With the global Gen Z population set to reach 2.6 billion by…