
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, February 8, 1994                   TAG: 9402080061
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: B-8   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: LON WAGNER
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

HERE, THEY WAITED . . .

Western and central Virginia Teamsters didn't join their national counterparts Monday in striking United Parcel Service.

Local 171 President Jim Guynn Sr. pointed out that a federal judge had issued a 5-day restraining order late Friday forbidding the Teamsters to strike the nation's largest parcel deliverer.

"None of us is in any hurry to violate a federal order," he said.

Guynn, also president of Teamsters Joint Council 83 of Virginia, said the state's other locals also were complying with the court order.

But he said they would have joined the strike after Friday's order expired at 6:15 p.m. Wednesday.

"Absolutely," he said, "unless something transpires for us to do otherwise." He made the comment before the company and union reached an agreement late Monday.

Teamsters Local 171 represents 550 UPS workers in Roanoke, Lynchburg and Dublin, about 350 of whom are in Roanoke, where the company operates a package-sorting hub.

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