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July 21, 2000 9:15 AM, EDT

Overnite Transportation Co. said employees at its Toledo, Ohio, service center filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board on July 18 to decertify the Teamsters union as their bargaining agent.

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The Teamsters represent employees at 22 of 166 Overnite terminals as a result of an organizing drive that began in December 1994.

Overnite said Toledo is the 12th service center to seek decertification since March 1999. The NLRB has taken no action on any of the petitions, however, because the agency is investigating Teamsters’ charges of unfair labor practices, according to a spokesman for the company.

Teamsters spokesman David Cameron said the Toledo decertification petition is “bogus” and predicted that it will be eventually dismissed by the NLRB.