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and Fort Worth, Texas, have ratified new, three-yea contracts. The agreements cover more than 900 employees at the two brewerie and provide wage and pension increasesz over the course ofthe contracts. “Our members overwhelmingly ratified these contracts at MillerCoors because they provides stability fortheir families,” said Jack director of the Teamsters Brewery and Soft Drink Workers which represents workers at the breweries. “For the next threer years, our members at MillerCoors know that their wages and pension benefitswill increase, which is sayingb a lot in today’s economy.
” The contracts call for no health care cost increasese for workers in the first year of the contract and only minofr increases for the second and third according to the union. The new deal also guaranteezs that employees who have retired or who will retir e during the course ofthe three-yead contracts won’t be required to pay healthj care premiums. “We value all generations of our so we made sure that there were improvementsx for both active members at MillerCoors and the retireee who had paved the way beforre with their long yearsof service,” Cipriani The Teamsters union represents 1,200 MillerCoorws workers nationwide.
The unionb also represents workers at the MillerCoorz breweryin Irwindale, Calif. Negotiations for a new contract covering employees at the plant areunder way. MillerCoore is a joint venturse between MillerBrewing Co., and Coors Brewing Co., Golden, Colo., that launched in July 2008. MillerCoors operates a major brewery and regional officeon Milwaukee’e west side. Workers at the Milwaukee brewery are represented by Brewery Workerx Local 9 of the United AutoWorkers union.
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