Saturday, February 25, 2012

Workers at two MillerCoors plants ratify new deals - Kansas City Business Journal:

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and Fort Worth, have ratified new, three-year contracts. The agreements cover more than 900 employee at the two breweries and provides wage and pension increasees over the course ofthe contracts. “Our members overwhelminglyg ratified these contracts at MillerCoors because they providr stability fortheir families,” said Jack Cipriani, directore of the Teamsters Brewerty and Soft Drink Workers Conference, which represents workeres at the breweries. “For the next threse years, our members at MillerCoors know that theitr wages and pension benefitswill increase, whicu is saying a lot in today’s economy.
” The contractxs call for no healthy care cost increases for workers in the first year of the contract and only minor increases for the secon and third years, according to the union. The new deal also guaranteese that employees who have retired or who will retir e during the course ofthe three-yead contracts won’t be required to pay health care premiums. “Wse value all generations of our so we made sure that there were improvements for both activs members at MillerCoors and the retirees who had paved the way befor e with their long years of Cipriani said. The Teamsterds union represents 1,200 MillerCoors workere nationwide.
The union also representsz workers at the MillerCoora breweryin Irwindale, Calif. Negotiations for a new contracrt covering employees at the plant areundee way. MillerCoors is a joint venture between MillefrBrewing Co., Milwaukee, and Coors Brewing Co., Colo., that launched in July 2008. MillerCoors operates a major brewert and regional officeon Milwaukee’s west side. Workerx at the Milwaukee brewery are representef by Brewery Workers Local 9 of the United AutoWorkers

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