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The Teamsters’ eight-year campaign to organize OTC’s service centers has become almost entirely dormant, and since
October 2002, the Teamsters have lost rights to represent 41% of the approximately 2,100 employees they had organized. The
Teamsters had become the bargaining representative of the employees at 26 of OTC’s 170 service centers, but the employees
at 17 of these locations recently have voted to decertify the Teamsters, and the NLRB has officially approved the votes in 14
of those locations. Decertification petitions are pending at four other service centers. Only a single representation petition
currently is pending, but due to strike violence charges pending against the Teamsters, the NLRB has blocked the Teamsters’
efforts to precipitate an election. In all, the Teamsters currently represent approximately 10% of OTC’s 12,534 employees.
Employees at two Motor Cargo service centers located in North Salt Lake, Utah and Reno, Nevada, representing
approximately 11% of Motor Cargo’s total work force at 33 service centers, are covered by two separate collective bargaining
agreements with unions affiliated with the Teamsters. Although the agreements cover most of the employees at these two
facilities, less than half of these covered employees are actual members of unions.
Other Product Lines
Other – Included in the other product lines are the results of the corporate holding company, self-insurance activities,
technology companies and all appropriate consolidating entries.
OTHER INFORMATION
Additional information regarding UPC’s operations is presented within Selected Financial Data, Item 6, and the
Consolidated Financial Statements, Item 8.
Governmental Regulation – UPC’s operations are currently subject to a variety of federal, state and local regulations (see
also the discussion of certain regulatory proceedings in Legal Proceedings, Item 3).
The operations of the Railroad and trucking segment are subject to the regulatory jurisdiction of the Surface
Transportation Board (STB) of the United States Department of Tr ansportation (DOT) and other federal and state agencies.
The operations of the Railroad are also subject to the regulations of the Federal Railroad Administration of the DOT. The
STB has jurisdiction over rates charged on certain regulated rail traffic; freight car compensation; transfer, extension or
abandonment of rail lines; and acquisition of control of rail common carriers.
The DOT and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, along with other federal agencies, have jurisdiction
over certain aspects of safety, movement of hazardous materials, movement and disposal of hazardous waste and equipment
standards. Various state and local agencies have jurisdiction over disposal of hazardous waste and seek to regulate movement
of hazardous materials in areas not otherwise preempted by federal law.
Environmental Regulation – UPC and its subsidiaries are subject to various environmental statutes and regulations,
including the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the Comprehensive Environmental Response,
Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) and the Clean Air Act (CAA).
RCRA applies to hazardous waste generators and transporters, as well as to persons engaged in treatment and disposal of
hazardous waste, and specifies standards for storage areas, treatment units and land disposal units. All generators of
hazardous waste are required to label shipments in accordance with detailed regulations and to prepare a detailed manifest
identifying the material and stating its destination before waste can be released for offsite transport. The transporter must
deliver the hazardous waste in accordance with the manifest and only to a treatment, storage or disposal facility qualified for
RCRA interim status or having a final RCRA permit.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations under RCRA have established a comprehensive system for the
management of hazardous waste. These regulations identify a wide range of industrial by-products and residues as
hazardous waste, and specify requirements for management of such waste from the time of generation through the time of
disposal and beyond. States that have adopted hazardous waste management programs with standards at least as stringent
as those promulgated by the EPA may be authorized by the EPA to administer all or part of RCRA on behalf of the EPA.
CERCLA was designed to establish a strategy for cleaning up facilities at which hazardous waste or other hazardous
substances have created actual or potential environmental hazards. The EPA has designated certain facilities as requiring