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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 recent ruling the National Labor Relations Board reversed more than five decades of legal precedence to shrink the time for union representation campaigning by at least one day. The board decided that both unions and employers no longer can hold mass…
The boom in construction of warehousing and distribution centers in the United States is attracting global investors, there may be greater concentration of property ownership into fewer hands, while ecommerce growth and expansion of the Panama Canal reshape…
The Department of Labor has done it again, unilaterally declaring that companies using staffing agencies are joint employers of those temporary workers under wage and hour laws. Dr. David Weil, head of DOL’s Wage and Hour Division, issued an “agency…
Recent actions by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and other federal agencies vividly depict the Obama Administration’s haste to manipulate the regulatory system to the fullest extent possible right up until he leaves office. Readers of this…
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration proposed a new simplified truck safety fitness standard that would assess whether a fleet is unsafe on a monthly basis. The new standard would integrate on- road safety data from inspections, along with the…
Statistics released since last issue’s article about the ecommerce revolution depict more vividly how it is completely transforming the retail industry. At the same time, consumer spending figures for 2015 reported by the government cast doubts about the…
Since being adopted in 2011, the National Labor Relations Board decision allowing unions to organize a small number of employees within a facility as “micro units” has seen surprising little use by labor organizers, but that may be changing.
In some ways the Christmas shopping season simply confirmed that retail trend towards more online buying, but the speed and scale of this season’s online transformation has shaken the bricks-and-mortar retail model to its foundations.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration issued a final rule increasing penalties for those who may coerce commercial truck and bus drivers into violate federal safety regulations.
ACWI ADVANCE | Volume 3, Issue 24 | December 15, 2015 After nearly a decade Congress finally passed a multi-year transportation infrastructure program that has drawn both expressions of relieved approval along with bitter criticism. Called the Fixing…
ACWI | Volume 3, Issue 23 | November 30, 2015 A recent survey of all the companies impacted by Globally Harmonized System of chemical classification and labeling regulations, found only 45% were able to meet the June 1, 2015 deadline for compliance, and 65%…
ACWI | Volume 3, Issue 23 | November 30, 2015 One reason warehouse companies have seen healthy growth in the consumer packaged goods business in recent years is tightening trucking capacity, according to the Boston Consulting Group. “CPG companies are now…
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 recent ruling the National Labor Relations Board reversed more than five decades of legal precedence to shrink the time for union representation campaigning by at least one day. The board decided that both unions and employers no longer can hold mass…
The boom in construction of warehousing and distribution centers in the United States is attracting global investors, there may be greater concentration of property ownership into fewer hands, while ecommerce growth and expansion of the Panama Canal reshape…
The Department of Labor has done it again, unilaterally declaring that companies using staffing agencies are joint employers of those temporary workers under wage and hour laws. Dr. David Weil, head of DOL’s Wage and Hour Division, issued an “agency…
Recent actions by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and other federal agencies vividly depict the Obama Administration’s haste to manipulate the regulatory system to the fullest extent possible right up until he leaves office. Readers of this…
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration proposed a new simplified truck safety fitness standard that would assess whether a fleet is unsafe on a monthly basis. The new standard would integrate on- road safety data from inspections, along with the…
Statistics released since last issue’s article about the ecommerce revolution depict more vividly how it is completely transforming the retail industry. At the same time, consumer spending figures for 2015 reported by the government cast doubts about the…
Since being adopted in 2011, the National Labor Relations Board decision allowing unions to organize a small number of employees within a facility as “micro units” has seen surprising little use by labor organizers, but that may be changing.
In some ways the Christmas shopping season simply confirmed that retail trend towards more online buying, but the speed and scale of this season’s online transformation has shaken the bricks-and-mortar retail model to its foundations.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration issued a final rule increasing penalties for those who may coerce commercial truck and bus drivers into violate federal safety regulations.
ACWI ADVANCE | Volume 3, Issue 24 | December 15, 2015 After nearly a decade Congress finally passed a multi-year transportation infrastructure program that has drawn both expressions of relieved approval along with bitter criticism. Called the Fixing…
ACWI | Volume 3, Issue 23 | November 30, 2015 A recent survey of all the companies impacted by Globally Harmonized System of chemical classification and labeling regulations, found only 45% were able to meet the June 1, 2015 deadline for compliance, and 65%…
ACWI | Volume 3, Issue 23 | November 30, 2015 One reason warehouse companies have seen healthy growth in the consumer packaged goods business in recent years is tightening trucking capacity, according to the Boston Consulting Group. “CPG companies are now…