Performance Transportation asks for civil contempt order after Teamsters strike on wage cuts

By Jennifer Lanning Drey

Portland, Ore., June 10 - Performance Transportation Services, Inc. asked the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of New York for an order of civil contempt against some of its International Brotherhood of Teamsters employees for willful violation of a court order, according to a Monday court filing.

According to the motion, Performance Transportation's Teamsters employees covered by its National Master Automobile Transporters Agreement implemented a strike following a court order allowing the company to implement a 15% wage cut for the employees.

Performance Transportation said the strike would destroy its business, remove any potential for the company's reorganization and destroy the bankruptcy estates.

"These scorched-earth tactics, which are designed to bully the debtors, have the effect of causing injury to countless others, including the debtors' other creditors and suppliers," the company said in the motion.

Performance Transportation Services is a Detroit-based transporter of new automobiles, sport utility vehicles and light trucks. Its Chapter 11 case number is 07-04746.

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