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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.
With Trump nominations to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission stalled in the Senate, the agency continues to push its agenda in new ways. In late July the EEOC sued a Houston employer for requiring job applicants to be of Hispanic national origin and…
Union advocates have long held the settled opinion that independent contractors are really misclassified employees, taking work that should be done by union members. Apparently, that objection also extends to four-legged contractors. Over the past two…
The nation’s labor unions are reacting to shrinking overall membership by attempting to organize smaller employers. In 2016, public sector and private industry union membership declined by nearly 120,000 members, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor…
The National Labor Relations Board has a new Republican member. At the same time, their chairman announced he is leaving at the end of the year. In another development, a federal court fired off a stinging rebuke of the previous Obama-era NLRB for going so…
CSX Transportation CEO Hunter Harrison publicly lashed out at his own customers at the same time the Surface Transportation Board was dealing with his failure to respond to its demands for accountability for the railroad’s service failures. The STB scheduled…
The Trump Administration recently released a list of 800 federal regulations that it is in the process of reforming or removing from the government rulebooks. You have read about some of these initiatives in the pages of ACWI Advance. The President made…
When it comes to how employers should gather 2016 data on its workforce to be included in the annually required EEO-1 reports, to quote former King of Siam, it’s a puzzlement. The new form was adopted by the Obama era Equal Employment Opportunity Commission…
ACWI member Columbian Logistics Network hosted Michigan Transportation Planning Association Conference attendees for a tour of its warehouse facility in Grand Rapids, MI. The visitors were drawn from the Michigan Department of Transportation, Grand Valley…
The Department of Labor wants to hear from you about what salary level would be appropriate for demarcating the border between employees eligible for overtime pay and those who should be exempt. The DOL Wage and Hour Division made its request for public…
A federal court told the National Labor Relations Board that it is okay for employers to urge their workers to display a positive attitude. The decision stems from the Obama era NLRB’s expansion of its reach into nonunion workplaces through regulation of…
Shippers are welcoming news that the West Coast longshoremen’s union members approved a new contract long before the old one could expire. The current agreement was scheduled to expire on July 1, 2019, but now will be extended until July 1, 2022. Reports say…
Mounting service failures at CSX Transportation spurred a highly unusual intervention by the Surface Transportation Board. Operational changes made by CSX Corp. Chief Executive Officer Hunter Harrison also impacted the company’s stock because shippers are…
Blog
Industry reporting, member spotlights, and operational guidance from ACWI. Every article from our archive is here — 1,254 posts going back to 2014.
With Trump nominations to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission stalled in the Senate, the agency continues to push its agenda in new ways. In late July the EEOC sued a Houston employer for requiring job applicants to be of Hispanic national origin and…
Union advocates have long held the settled opinion that independent contractors are really misclassified employees, taking work that should be done by union members. Apparently, that objection also extends to four-legged contractors. Over the past two…
The nation’s labor unions are reacting to shrinking overall membership by attempting to organize smaller employers. In 2016, public sector and private industry union membership declined by nearly 120,000 members, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor…
The National Labor Relations Board has a new Republican member. At the same time, their chairman announced he is leaving at the end of the year. In another development, a federal court fired off a stinging rebuke of the previous Obama-era NLRB for going so…
CSX Transportation CEO Hunter Harrison publicly lashed out at his own customers at the same time the Surface Transportation Board was dealing with his failure to respond to its demands for accountability for the railroad’s service failures. The STB scheduled…
The Trump Administration recently released a list of 800 federal regulations that it is in the process of reforming or removing from the government rulebooks. You have read about some of these initiatives in the pages of ACWI Advance. The President made…
When it comes to how employers should gather 2016 data on its workforce to be included in the annually required EEO-1 reports, to quote former King of Siam, it’s a puzzlement. The new form was adopted by the Obama era Equal Employment Opportunity Commission…
ACWI member Columbian Logistics Network hosted Michigan Transportation Planning Association Conference attendees for a tour of its warehouse facility in Grand Rapids, MI. The visitors were drawn from the Michigan Department of Transportation, Grand Valley…
The Department of Labor wants to hear from you about what salary level would be appropriate for demarcating the border between employees eligible for overtime pay and those who should be exempt. The DOL Wage and Hour Division made its request for public…
A federal court told the National Labor Relations Board that it is okay for employers to urge their workers to display a positive attitude. The decision stems from the Obama era NLRB’s expansion of its reach into nonunion workplaces through regulation of…
Shippers are welcoming news that the West Coast longshoremen’s union members approved a new contract long before the old one could expire. The current agreement was scheduled to expire on July 1, 2019, but now will be extended until July 1, 2022. Reports say…
Mounting service failures at CSX Transportation spurred a highly unusual intervention by the Surface Transportation Board. Operational changes made by CSX Corp. Chief Executive Officer Hunter Harrison also impacted the company’s stock because shippers are…