Overnite Transportation continued to operate late last week, after some Teamsters drivers and dock workers at seven company terminals walked off their jobs.
Chances that the strikes might end soon evaporated July 7 when the company rejected the union’s offer to end the walkouts at five terminals in return for a meeting with company officials.
The next day, drivers and dock workers at two more facilities manned picket lines to protest what they say are unfair labor practices, and a union official said more strikes might be on the way.
Overnite management said the strikes have had no effect on business.
“We are completely current,” Mark B. Goodwin, general counsel for the carrier, said from the company’s headquarters in Richmond, Va. “We’re making pickups and deliveries.”
On July 5, about 1,350 workers struck two facilities in the Atlanta area and one each in Memphis, Tenn.; Kansas City, Mo.; and Indianapolis. With the addition of the Miami and New Orleans terminals on July 8, the number of striking workers grew to 1,430, the union reported.
Overnite operates 166 service centers nationwide and has some 12,500 workers.
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