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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.
On March 3, President Biden signed a new law that bans the use of pre-dispute arbitration agreements in cases alleging sexual assault or sexual harassment. The reform had been sought since the early days of the #MeToo movement when it was discovered that in…
In January, OSHA announced a 5% increase in the civil penalties assessed for violations of its regulations, but worse may be yet to come if certain legislative reforms are adopted by Congress. As of Jan. 13, the maximum penalty for willful or repeated…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has relaxed its guidelines for facemasks at a time when states and localities are rushing to loosen their mask mandates and other Covid 19 workplace and social restrictions. The new CDC guidance published…
When National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo announced late last year the board’s new policy favoring union organizing of college football and basketball players, she seemed to have gone off the deep end a bit by adopting Orwellian…
An alliance of OSHA and industry groups has revised the official federal safety manual used for managing industrial robot systems. OSHA, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and Association for Advancing Automation (called A3, formerly…
Net effective industrial real estate rents increased by a record 17.6% in 2021, with gateway locations recording the fastest rent growth, led by California’s Inland Empire at 58%, the industrial real estate giant Prologis reported last month. Markets near…
The Department of Labor and American Trucking Associations signed an agreement making ATA an official registered sponsor of the federal agency’s new apprenticeship program The signing ceremony was attended by Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, whose…
Download a copy of ACWI Advance here: In this issue of ACWI Advance we take a closer look at these stories: 3PL warehouses are positioned to help customers grappling with service and cost issues. More than $761 billion in retail merchandise sold last year…
Third-Party Logistics warehouse operations will continue to thrive throughout this year as customers search for solutions to the supply chain service and costs issue, according to CBRE Group, the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment…
With the growing legalization of marijuana use in states across the country, concerns have persisted over its effects on drivers of all kinds of vehicles. A new study shows that this effect might be even worse than was originally thought because drivers seem…
When OSHA announced on Jan. 25 that it had withdrawn its Covid 19 vaccine mandate in the wake of a Supreme Court defeat, it may have seemed to many like that ruling had settled the issue – but that couldn’t be more wrong. Late last year, at the same time it…
A lack of willing workers is driving 3PL logistics providers who operate warehouses to adopt fleets of driverless lift trucks on a worldwide scale. Last month, the 3PL companies ArcBest and NFI Industries announced that they had invested jointly $42 million…
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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.
On March 3, President Biden signed a new law that bans the use of pre-dispute arbitration agreements in cases alleging sexual assault or sexual harassment. The reform had been sought since the early days of the #MeToo movement when it was discovered that in…
In January, OSHA announced a 5% increase in the civil penalties assessed for violations of its regulations, but worse may be yet to come if certain legislative reforms are adopted by Congress. As of Jan. 13, the maximum penalty for willful or repeated…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has relaxed its guidelines for facemasks at a time when states and localities are rushing to loosen their mask mandates and other Covid 19 workplace and social restrictions. The new CDC guidance published…
When National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo announced late last year the board’s new policy favoring union organizing of college football and basketball players, she seemed to have gone off the deep end a bit by adopting Orwellian…
An alliance of OSHA and industry groups has revised the official federal safety manual used for managing industrial robot systems. OSHA, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and Association for Advancing Automation (called A3, formerly…
Net effective industrial real estate rents increased by a record 17.6% in 2021, with gateway locations recording the fastest rent growth, led by California’s Inland Empire at 58%, the industrial real estate giant Prologis reported last month. Markets near…
The Department of Labor and American Trucking Associations signed an agreement making ATA an official registered sponsor of the federal agency’s new apprenticeship program The signing ceremony was attended by Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, whose…
Download a copy of ACWI Advance here: In this issue of ACWI Advance we take a closer look at these stories: 3PL warehouses are positioned to help customers grappling with service and cost issues. More than $761 billion in retail merchandise sold last year…
Third-Party Logistics warehouse operations will continue to thrive throughout this year as customers search for solutions to the supply chain service and costs issue, according to CBRE Group, the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment…
With the growing legalization of marijuana use in states across the country, concerns have persisted over its effects on drivers of all kinds of vehicles. A new study shows that this effect might be even worse than was originally thought because drivers seem…
When OSHA announced on Jan. 25 that it had withdrawn its Covid 19 vaccine mandate in the wake of a Supreme Court defeat, it may have seemed to many like that ruling had settled the issue – but that couldn’t be more wrong. Late last year, at the same time it…
A lack of willing workers is driving 3PL logistics providers who operate warehouses to adopt fleets of driverless lift trucks on a worldwide scale. Last month, the 3PL companies ArcBest and NFI Industries announced that they had invested jointly $42 million…