Amazon contractor reports it will lay off 200 North Texas workers
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 KERA News 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.”
A spokesperson for Accelore referred KERA News 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.
“Anywhere in kind of the Amazon ecosystem, probably the growth rate in actual goods being shipped is somewhat muted right now,” Clark said.
Clark cited a reasons including growing tariffs for that slowdown, making companies cautious about hiring and investing.
Amazon also reportedly ended contracts with another company that laid off over 150 drivers earlier this month in New York. The group’s union argues the cuts are essentially Amazon layoffs, and were retaliation over a larger Amazon workers strike from last December.
Amazon spokesperson Eileen Hards accused Teamsters, the labor union group for the contracted workers of spreading misinformation.
“The Teamsters are deliberately spreading misinformation,” Hards said in a statement to KERA News. “Our goal is to provide customers with fast delivery and great service – and we regularly review and make changes to the DSP program in support of this. This includes a recent change we made that’s 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.”
KERA News 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, according Reuters.
Last month, the national unemployment rate increased 4.3% and data from the U.S. Department of Labor showed a net loss of jobs in June for the first time since 2020.
This marks four months of slow job growth. 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.