Greyhound Agrees to Resume Talks With Striking Workers

Greyhound Lines Inc., which had for the past week resisted requests from its striking employees to resume contract negotiations, said Tuesday it has agreed to go back to the bargaining table.

Greyhound’s chief negotiator, executive vice president P. Anthony Lannie, said he and representatives of the Amalgamated Council of Greyhound Local Unions will resume discussions Saturday in Phoenix. Negotiations in that city broke off when 9,000 drivers and other employees went on strike March 2.

Lannie said Greyhound was acting at the request of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. The mediation service’s director, Bernard DeLury, met Monday with union leaders and is scheduled to meet today with Lannie in Washington.

In Chicago, meanwhile, a departing Greyhound bus was hit by sniper fire early Tuesday, the third such incident in less than 36 hours in the strike. A gunman fired at least four shots into the front of the bus that was leaving Chicago for Memphis, Tenn., missing a passenger by “just inches,” authorities said.

No injuries were reported among the 13 passengers and the replacement driver aboard the bus in the 1:30 a.m. ambush.