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Officials of less-than-truckload carrier ABF Freight System said they have notified the Teamsters union they want to negotiate directly on a new labor contract next year and not as part of an industry group.

The Teamsters union and UPS Inc. agreed this week to begin negotiations in late September on national UPS Inc. and UPS Freight contracts covering about 250,000 union members nationwide.

James Hoffa was re-elected to another five-year term as head of the Teamsters union, winning about 60% of the vote, the union said on its website.

Teamsters union members working in the U.S. car-haul industry approved a new contract that will last more than four years, the union said from its national headquarters in Washington, D.C.

The Teamsters union said it has ratified a national agreement covering about 4,500 U.S. automobile-hauling workers.

Teamsters union members who deliver new vehicles will vote during July on the 51-month tentative agreement reached earlier this month by union leaders and carrier negotiators, the labor group announced.

The Teamsters union on June 1 announced a tentative contract agreement with vehicle hauling companies that employ an estimated 8,100 drivers, just hours after the previous contract expired.

ABF Freight System said it filed legal actions Monday against units of YRC Worldwide and the Teamsters union for what it said were violations of the National Master Freight Agreement collective bargaining agreement that covers most U.S. unionized trucking employees.

Allied Systems Holdings and the Teamsters union are clashing over the possible reversal of a 17.5% pay cut the union agreed to three years ago when the car hauler emerged from bankruptcy.

Teamsters union workers rejected a voluntary 15% pay reduction at ABF Freight System Inc. that the company had sought to bring its pay package closer to the one the union has with ABF’s chief LTL rival, YRC Worldwide.