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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1997
Page
1
Local union members march in a show of solidarity amid ongoing labor disputes. Staff and wire reports describe picket lines forming outside workplaces as negotiators return to the bargaining table. Union leaders urge members to stay unified and prepared for additional actions if talks stall.
Six-year veteran Rod Valenzuela and other Teamsters picket Odessa UPS as union members walk out after a Sunday deadline. Nationwide action disrupts deliveries, merchants adjust shipping, and temp workers hope for lasting changes amid wage disparities and ongoing contract talks with UPS.
Odessa post office reports higher parcel intake as UPS employees strike. Postmaster Guadalupe Ramirez says the office handles about 3,000 parcels daily and could gain roughly 100 more with the walkout. The office offers delivery coordination and limits nonlisted senders to four parcels at a time.
Gunmen killed five at the Max Fim restaurant and a state prison official was fatally shot nearby while investigating the massacre in Ciudad Juarez. Three others were wounded as authorities, citing a possible cartel turf war, investigated the weekend attack and related violence.
One month after an intoxicated man died in the Ector County Jail, Osbaldo Rodriguez, 25, died after arrest at Los Arcos Ballroom. He was booked for public intoxication and possession of a controlled substance and held in a cell until sobering. Jail checks every 5 to 7 minutes. Autopsy results pending along with another death of Luis Cabarubio, 43, on July 2. Authorities say no policy changes yet.
President Clinton says the line item veto exists to be used but remains weighing whether to cross out individual items in the budget and tax cut measures before signing Tuesday. White House invites lawmakers to the signing on the South Lawn with aims to balance the budget by 2002 and deliver 152 billion dollars in tax cuts.
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