[PEN-L:11804] International Action Against UPS Looms

[Michael Eisenscher <meisenscher@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dow Jones Newswires -- August 15, 1997
 European Transport Unions To Discuss UPS;
 Strike Possible

 AP-Dow Jones News Service

 AMSTERDAM -- European transport unions will meet in Brussels Thursday
 to discuss ways to support the employees of United Parcel Service of
 America Inc. (X.UPS), the FNV, the largest Dutch union said Friday.

 'We are going to look at the possibilities. Look at the wishes of our members,'
 spokesman Roelie Hidding of the transport unit of the FNV told Dow Jones,
 adding it was yet unclear if the transport unions would go on a solidarity
strike.

 Hidding said he had heard the German public sector workers union, OeTV is
 considering calling a solidarity strike with the Teamsters later Friday.

 The employees of the UPS unit in Amsterdam declared themselves
 sympathetic with their U.S. colleagues earlier Friday.

 The 40 UPS workers in Amsterdam met with UPS pilot Dan Overgaauw from
 Kentucky and Andy Banks from the Teamsters union.

 The two Americans are touring the European UPS units to win support for the
 strike in the U.S..

 About 185,000 Teamsters members called a strike about the terms of a new
 pension plan. The strike entered its eleventh day Friday.