File spoon-archives/aut-op-sy.archive/aut-op-sy_1997/aut-op-sy.9708, message 84


From: "Curtis Price" <cansv-AT-igc.apc.org>
Date:          Wed, 13 Aug 1997 11:55:24 +0000
Subject: AUT: (Fwd) UPS trucks vandalized at distribution center


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Date:          Tue, 12 Aug 1997 20:21:37 -0700
From:          NewsHound <NewsHound-AT-hound.com>

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Subject:       UPS trucks vandalized at distribution center



NewsHound article from "STRIKES" hound, score "78."



UPS trucks vandalized at distribution center   BALDWIN PARK, Calif. (AP) --
More than a dozen trucks parked at a United Parcel Service distribution
center were vandalized in two separate incidents, police said.

In the first incident, tires were slashed and brake lines cut on 11 trucks
parked at the center, which is surrounded by an 8-foot high chain link
fence topped by barbed wire, said Sgt. Don French.

The commercial trucks, which appear to be the type used for deliveries,
were parked next to the fence, French said.

A UPS security manager reported the first incident of vandalism about 2:20
a.m. Tuesday.

No one, including strikers usually stationed at the center 24 hours daily
since the >>strike<< began at the center, saw anything suspicious, French
said.

A second incident of vehicles vandalized at the center was reported Tuesday
afternoon, but details were not available immediately.

Meanwhile, the walkout resulted in other incidents nationwide as the UPS
>>strike<< continued into the second week without any indication of whether
negotiators would return to the bargaining table.

In Nashville, a UPS manager was killed Monday in a highway accident. Miami
police arrested four suspects, including two >>striking<< >>workers<<, in
the stabbing of a driver who crossed the picket line. And judges in two
cities put limits on pickets after complaints of intimidation.



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