A former driver for Overnite Transportation Co. said he was paid $10,000 to damage company property and falsely accuse union sympathizers so they would be fired.
The allegations elicited angry denials by the company, which has repeatedly accused Teamsters leaders of orchestrating violence against employees in an effort to pressure the company to sign a labor contract.
Anthony Holly of Jackson, Tenn., said an Overnite supervisor in Jackson, about 75 miles east of Memphis, asked him to sabotage company property because he was not a union member and the supervisor knew he was having financial problems.
“[He] asked me to break windows of Overnite trucks that were parked, not rolling — any Overnite trucks, no matter where they were parked, so long as nobody was in them,” Holly said in an affidavit that was given to Teamsters officials. The information was turned over to the National Labor Relations Board, which in turn passed it on to the U.S. Attorney’s office in Memphis for investigation.
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