Teamsters union members employed at car hauler Performance Transportation Services went on strike against the company Monday to enforce the union’s bargaining table demands, the union said.
The nationwide strike affects 24 terminals and about 1,250 Teamster employees at the PTS companies Leaseway Motorcar Transport Co., E. and L. Transport Co., Hadley Auto Transport and Transportation Releasing, the Teamsters said on their Web site.
PTS employees haul vehicles for Ford, General Motors, Toyota and other auto manufacturers.
PTS Chief Executive Officer Jeff Cornish wrote in an open letter to the company’s employees to “save your company and come back to work.”
A district court will not rule until Friday on the company’s injunction “to end the illegal strike by the Teamsters,” he wrote.
A U.S. bankruptcy judge last week allowed a 15% pay reduction for union employees of Allen Park, Mich.-based PTS, and the company’s lawyers asked on Saturday for an injunction against a strike, Bloomberg reported.
The terminals are located in Newark and Port Newark, N.J.; Lordstown and Lorain, Ohio; Canton, Lansing and Pontiac, Mich.; Lewiston and Selkirk, N.Y.; Chicago; Charlton and Worcester, Mass.; Dallas, Houston and San Antonio, Texas; Aston, Pa; Georgetown, Ky.; Princeton, Ind.; El Mirage, Ariz.; Albuquerque, N. Mex.; Salt Lake City; Wilmington, Del.; and Cottage Grove, Minn.
PTS is ranked No. 73 on the Transport Topics 100 listing of U.S. and Canadian for-hire carriers.
