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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 27 President Trump signed into law a congressional resolution overturning the previous Administration’s attempt to blacklist federal contractors with pending and settled labor charges against them. Both houses of Congress voted to end the 2014…
The Supreme Court ruled that President Obama’s naming of Lafe Solomon as acting general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board was illegal. In 2010, Obama appointed Lafe Solomon, then a senior NLRB employee, as acting general counsel. Six months…
You might not know it from the general news media frantically competing to spotlight the latest high-level political shenanigans, but work is actually being done in Washington by the new Republican Congress and Trump Administration. Let’s take a brief glance…
Supply chain inefficiencies will result in $79 billion added to chemical manufacturers’ costs over the next decade, according to a survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers. Reading between the lines, this creates an enormous opportunity for third-party…
A federal judge decided in February that a guidance letter issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration granting union “walkaround” rights was really a rule and can be challenged in court. OSHA published the interpretation letter in 2013…
The Chemical Activity Barometer, a leading economic indicator, posted a strong gain in February of 0.4%, following a 0.4% January gain. Created by the American Chemistry Council, the CAB indicator also registered a steady 0.3% gain every month during the…
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%.…
Blog
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 27 President Trump signed into law a congressional resolution overturning the previous Administration’s attempt to blacklist federal contractors with pending and settled labor charges against them. Both houses of Congress voted to end the 2014…
The Supreme Court ruled that President Obama’s naming of Lafe Solomon as acting general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board was illegal. In 2010, Obama appointed Lafe Solomon, then a senior NLRB employee, as acting general counsel. Six months…
You might not know it from the general news media frantically competing to spotlight the latest high-level political shenanigans, but work is actually being done in Washington by the new Republican Congress and Trump Administration. Let’s take a brief glance…
Supply chain inefficiencies will result in $79 billion added to chemical manufacturers’ costs over the next decade, according to a survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers. Reading between the lines, this creates an enormous opportunity for third-party…
A federal judge decided in February that a guidance letter issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration granting union “walkaround” rights was really a rule and can be challenged in court. OSHA published the interpretation letter in 2013…
The Chemical Activity Barometer, a leading economic indicator, posted a strong gain in February of 0.4%, following a 0.4% January gain. Created by the American Chemistry Council, the CAB indicator also registered a steady 0.3% gain every month during the…
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%.…