YRC Worldwide Inc., the parent company of New Penn Motor Express, will close its facility in East Petersburg, Lancaster County, according to the Central Penn Business Journal.
Employees represented by Teamsters Local 771 of Lancaster will be able to transfer to locations in Carlisle, Cumberland County, and Lansdale, Montgomery County, a union spokesman told the Journal.
A closing date has not been set.
YRC, based in Kansas, plans to close 12 percent of its terminals in December and January. New Penn's headquarters is in South Lebanon Township.
In other YRC-related news, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters is joining YRC Worldwide in asking a federal judge in Arkansas to dismiss a lawsuit challenging three rounds of wage and benefit concessions approved by union members who work for YRC, according to the Kansas City Business Journal. The Teamsters' brief was filed last Tuesday.
ABF Freight System Inc. filed a lawsuit earlier this month after the Teamsters and several YRC entities agreed to concessions, including the extension of a 15 percent pay cut to 2015 and waiver of employee pension contributions until June. ABF asserts that those concessions and others made earlier violate the National Master Freight Agreement, a contract that affects drivers and dock workers across the nation.
YRC and the Teamsters say AFB took itself out of negotiating the NMFA in 2008 and therefore has no right to assert the contract now, the Kansas City Business