According to multiple employees, Howell also engendered ire through some of his behavior at the union's Washington, D.C., headquarters.
Multiple union employees talked openly about how little they'd seen Howell in the office -- sometimes only two or three days in a month -- and that he often didn't respond to calls and texts as pressing matters loomed.
Howell ordered the union facilities department to merge two spaces in the parking garage to avoid door dings on his Porsche Cayenne Turbo, the sources said. He asked workers to change the number of the two spaces, 10 and 11, to 32, as an homage to the jersey number worn by O.J. Simpson, according to Craig Jones, the union's longtime director of security. A second source familiar with the matter confirmed the Simpson inspiration.
"I don't know why O.J.," Jones said. "Everyone has their preferences, perhaps."