June 2, 2008: Performance Transportation Services (PTS) is the latest Teamster employer to ask a bankruptcy court to impose concessions on its workers, in this case 1,300 carhaulers.

The company will be in court within days to ask for a 15 percent wage cut.

PTS also announced they would pull out of the joint employer bargaining and bargain with the union on their own. They pulled this stunt two days before the contract expired on May 31.

From May 31-June 1, strike votes were taken at PTS locations; reports from several locals indicate that members are voting by a wide margin to authorize a possible strike. Reports from officers indicate that no strike is expected immediately.

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