A United Parcel Service driver who was attacked by union members for working during the 1997 strike ha settled a lawsuit against the Teamsters.

According to published reports, Roderick Carter kept driving during the two-week strike in August 1997. In an interview with a television reporter during the strike, he said he had to keep working to support his family. The night the interview aired, he got threatening phone calls. The day afterward, he was pulled from his truck and stabbed with an ice pick. The six attackers, bailed out with union funds, were later convicted of various charges.
The threatening calls were traced to the home of the then-president of the union local.
Carter's lawsuit accused the union of encouraging violence against employees who crossed the picket line. Details of the settlement were not disclosed because of a confidentiality agreement, but Carter's lawyer told the Associated Press that the settlement would "send a message that union violence does not pay."