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December 22, 1999 10:50 AM, EST

As the Teamsters’ strike against Overnite Transportation Co. lumbered into its eighth week, union organizers launched two new offensives designed to keep pressure on their adversary.

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At a Dec. 10 rally in New York held by Teamsters President James P. Hoffa, AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney and Monsignor Howard Basler of the Catholic Archdiocese of Brooklyn, N.Y., the Teamsters began an “educational” picket of home furnishings retailer Bed Bath & Beyond and called for the chain to sever ties with Overnite.

On another front, the union filed a national unfair labor practices charge Dec. 15 against Overnite to press the government into treating the company’s alleged violations of federal labor law as a group, not as isolated infractions.

Company spokesman Ira Rosenfeld called the leafleting “the act of a desperate union trying to do anything they can to get to Overnite.” As for the labor law charges, he said there’s “no news here. These are the same charges that were based on an affidavit the Teamsters have been pushing for seven-and-a-half weeks. There’s nothing to these allegations.”

For the full story, see the Dec. 20 print edition of Transport Topics. .