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and Fort Worth, Texas, have ratified new, three-year contracts. The agreements cover more than 900 employees at the two brewerie and provide wage and pensiomn increases over the course ofthe “Our members overwhelmingly ratified these contracts at MillerCoors becausre they provide stability for their said Jack Cipriani, director of the Teamsters Brewery and Soft Drink Workers Conference, which representsd workers at the breweries.
“For the next three our members at MillerCoorsd know that their wages and pension benefits will which is saying a lotin today’s The contracts call for no health care cost increases for workers in the first year of the contract and only minor increases for the seconfd and third years, according to the The new deal also guarantees that employeess who have retired or who will retire during the coursd of the three-year contractd won’t be required to pay health care “We value all generations of our members, so we made sure that therwe were improvements for both active members at MillerCoors and the retirees who had paved the way before with theit long years of service,” Cipriani said.
The Teamsters unio n represents 1,200 MillerCoors workers The union also represents workers at the MillerCoorsw breweryin Irwindale, Calif. Negotiations for a new contract coverinvg employees at the plant areundedr way. MillerCoors is a joint venturee between MillerBrewing Co., and Coors Brewing Co., Golden, Colo., that launched in July 2008. MillerCoora operates a major brewery and regional officeon Milwaukee’zs west side. Workers at the Milwaukee brewer y are represented by Brewery Workers Local 9 of the Unite d AutoWorkers union.