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- April 6, 2023
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Big Amazon Spend on Anti-Union Consultants; Boxed Goes Belly Up; US Manufacturing Contracts again in March; 3PL Spending Up Strong in 2022 |
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That's how much Amazon spent on ant-union consultants in 2022, according to a recent governmet filing. That’s more than triple what Amazon spent the previous year, when organizing efforts started to build up among Amazon fulfillment and sortation centers, The Hill’s Karl Evers-Hillstrom reported this week. In April 2022, an Amazon FC in Staten Island became the first to successfully organize, but Amazon has fought off union efforts at other locations that have seen some employees stoke the flames. Anti-union consultants, who develop and execute tactics to persuade workers not to unionize, are frequently hired by comptianies hoping to stop the campaign or defeat it in a vote to organize. Amazon typically holds numerous anti-union meetings that workers were required to attend, and plastered “vote no” posters at its FCs, following a common anti-union playbook. However, a federal judge ruled in January that Amazon violated labor laws by threatening to withhold wage increases if workers voted to form a union. |
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That was the level of the US Purchasing Managers Index for March as released Monday by the Institute for Supply Management (ISM). That puts it well below the key 50 mark that separates US manufacturing expansion from contraction. In fact, the March score was 1.4 percentage points lower than the 47.7 recorded in February, and was below 50 for the fifth consecutive month. It is also the lowest level since May 2020, when it registered a seasonally adjusted 43.5. In perhaps worse economic news, the New Orders Index remained in contraction territory at a low score 44.3, 2.7 percentage points below the figure of 47.0 recorded in February, in a negative sign for future US manufacturing activity. |
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That was the growth in spend on outsourcing domestic transportation management, according to fresh data this week from 3PL research firm Armstrong & Associates. That based on $151 billion in 2022 in terms of outsourcing domestical freight management expenditures. That data point synchs with a new study from Coyote Logistics that showed 50% of shippers increased their spending on 3PLs over the past two years, while only 10% decreased spending, and 52% plan to increase their spending next year, while only 10% plan a decrease. It also found 75% of shippers believe a mix between in-house and outsourced capacity is ideal. |
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