A contractor for Amazon Logistics is laying off more than 200 workers in North Texas later this year, according to a Texas Workforce Commission report.
Accelore Group LLC reported the 214 positions will be cut in Dallas and Tarrant counties at job sites in Fort Worth and Balch Springs. The layoffs are set to take effect Nov. 1.
"Accelore Group is exiting the Amazon Delivery Service Partner program," an Amazon spokesperson said in an email to 四虎影院 Tuesday. "We're actively working to help connect affected employees with other Delivery Service Partners in the Dallas-Forth Worth region who are currently hiring.鈥�
A spokesperson for Accelore referred 四虎影院 to its board of directors, but said the layoffs are an "internal decision."
Although the U.S. is not in a recession, several factors show a slowdown in the economy, said Cullum Clark, an economic professor at Southern Methodist University and director of the Bush Institute-SMU Economic Growth Initiative.
鈥淎nywhere in kind of the Amazon ecosystem, probably the growth rate in actual goods being shipped is somewhat muted right now,鈥� Clark said.
Clark cited a reasons including growing tariffs for that slowdown, making companies cautious about hiring and investing.
earlier this month in New York. The group's union argues the cuts are essentially Amazon layoffs, and were retaliation over a larger
Amazon spokesperson Eileen Hards accused the Teamsters, the labor union for the contracted workers, of spreading misinformation.
鈥淭he Teamsters are deliberately spreading misinformation," Hards said in a statement to 四虎影院. "Our goal is to provide customers with fast delivery and great service 鈥� and we regularly review and make changes to the DSP program in support of this. This includes a recent change we made that鈥檚 designed to allow DSPs to be more hands on with their teams and support their operations at one delivery station. Changes like this not only benefit their employees, but also our customers.鈥�
四虎影院 reached out to Teamsters and will update this story with any response.
In California, at least 100 workers were cut in Amazon's Web Services cloud computing unit in July,
Last month, the national unemployment rate increased to 4.3% and showed a net loss of jobs in June for the first time since 2020.
Average job growth between May and August was down 75% from the same period a year ago.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas also shifted down its job growth forecast to 1.3% in 2025, after forecasting 1.5% last month.
Additionally, recent crackdowns on immigration from the Trump administration this year could hurt economic growth, Clark said.
"The actual population growth is probably at the slowest that it's been going in many years," Clark said.
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