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UPS workers face layoffs following strike
■ Reduced business for
UPS led to layoffs after the
strike resolution.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ATLANTA For thousands of
United Parcel Service workers, the end
of their strike didn’t mean a return to
work.
As the delivery giant slowly began
recovering Wednesday from the 15-day
Teamsters walkout, the company told
some workers they were laid off, at least
temporarily, because of lost business.
“All of our jobs depend on our vol
ume level,” UPS spokesman Rick
Warlick said.
“Certainly as we go back to work, as
our volume picks up, we will add work
ers. Any businesses that have gone away
as a result of the strike may mean fewer
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UPS has estimated the strike cost at
least 5 percent of its business but has
said it won’t be able to measure lost busi
ness properly until next week.
UPS’ daily volume dropped during
the strike to 10 percent of its normal 12
million parcels and packages.
The company expected a quick, large
surge as customers shipped packages
that had piled up during die strike.
Some 185,000 Teamsters struck the
company, and UPS has said more than
15,000 jobs could be cut because of per
manently lost business.
The company did not release figures
Wednesday on the number of workers
back on the job.
Thirty-five percent of 4,671 workers
in UPS’ mid-South offices were laid off
Wednesday, said Doug Ashcraft, a man
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jobs come back,” Ashcraft said.
In Charlotte, N.C., only a small num
ber of the 800 UPS employees were
called back to work. Rows of idle trucks
were parked in the expansive parking
lot.
“There’s not enough work for them,”
supervisor Norman Bellow said.
Duane Tebbetts, a part-time employ
ee in Arkansas who has worked for UPS
for three years, said he was worried that
his job might be among those eliminat
ed.
“UPS will call us, (but) they’ll start
with the higher-seniority people,” he
said. “Some might have to wait. There
might be some layoffs.”
Driver Paul LaLiberte, speaking as he
drove on his route in Portland, Ore., said
he’s certain the contract will be ratified.
“Nobody wants to go back out on
strike,” he said.
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NEWS
Office supply company sets sights
on empty Franklin Street building
■ A Charlotte developer
has applied to build seven
office and retail buildings.
BY STEVE MRAZ
STAFF WRfTER
Next year students might be able to
get their back-to-school necessities at a
new 24,000-square-foot office supply
store at the previous location of Lowe’s
on East Franklin Street.
“It’s been mentioned that a large
office supply company is considering
that location,” said Joel Harper, presi
dent of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro
Chamber of Commerce.
Chester Crowell Little Jr. of
Charlotte will hear suggestions from the
Chapel Hill Planning Department
Thursday on his application to build a
combination of seven office and retail
buildings on the site of the old Lowe’s
building.
Lowe’s moved from its location of
1710 E. Franklin St. near the Exxon
Station to anew building on U.S. 15-501
on Aug. 10.
Architects from Isom Associates of
Wilkesboro, hired by Little, have drawn
plans for three office and four retail
buildings to be constructed over 4.9
acres on the property.
One of the retail buildings is planned
to be 24,000 square feet. The other three
retail spaces are proposed at 3,000
square feet each, and the three office
buildings are slated at 1,875 square feet
each.
Harold Humphrey, an architect from
Isom Associates, said the architectural
style will be understated. Bricks will
cover the fronts of the buildings.
The Chapel Hill Town Council is
expected to okay Little’s application
without changes, Humphrey said.
“Hopefully we’ll get approval by March
and coordinate our building with it.”
Costs for the project have not been
determined.
Because the council’s agenda is full
until January 1998, Gene Poveromo, a
development planner for the town, said
it could take until March for the council
and the planning board to give approval
for the building permit. The Chapel Hill
Planning Department received the
application on July 8.
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the application,” Poveromo said. “We’ll
meet with the applicant in 10 days with
a list of written comments. They’ll make
revisions to our suggestions and then
resubmit their application.”
If town officials do not have any sug
gested changes for Little’s project, they
will recommend its approval by the
Town Council, Poveromo said. If the
project is approved, it should take anoth
er one to four months for construction
to begin, Harper said.
“It will be positive all the way
around,” he said. “There is a low vacan
cy rate in the area. The demand for
stores is higher than the supply. Rent (in
the area) is higher than it probably
should be. This will lower it down.”
Kathleen Fresne of Carrboro attend
ed a public information meeting on the
project Tuesday afternoon. She said the
architects and Little talked about how
lovely they would make the property.
“They didn’t give enough definition
on how they are making it lovely,” she
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Lowe's relocated to another building on U.S. 15-501. A developer is
considering putting an office supply store in the vacated building.
Friday, August 22, 1997
“It will be positive all the way
around. There is a low
vacancy rate in the area. The
demand for stores is higher
than the supply. ”
GENE POVEROMO
Chapel Hill development planner
said. “I question development on that
property because it’s already congested.
I couldn’t imagine a place of business in
that area. I just couldn’t figure it out."
Harper said development would
bring congestion.
“Congestion was the biggest issue
when the new Lowe’s was being devel
oped,” he said. “The traffic there now is
not bad. Actually it’s better than it was
before. I don’t think that anyone’s going
to be ruining their life with the new
buildings there.”
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