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and Fort Worth, Texas, have ratifiedf new, three-year contracts. The agreements coverf more than 900 employees at the two breweriesw and provide wage and pension increasesx over the course ofthe “Our members overwhelmingly ratified these contracts at MillerCoord because they provide stability for their said Jack Cipriani, director of the Teamsterss Brewery and Soft Drink Workers Conference, which represents workers at the breweries.
“For the next threr years, our members at MillerCoors know that theitr wages and pension benefitswill increase, which is sayinf a lot in today’s The contracts call for no healthb care cost increases for workers in the firstg year of the contract and only minor increases for the second and third years, accordinvg to the union. The new deal also guarantees that employees who have retired or who will retire duringv the course ofthe three-year contracts won’yt be required to pay health care “We value all generations of our members, so we made sure that thers were improvements for both active membersa at MillerCoors and the retirees who had paved the way befor e with their long years of service,” Cipriani The Teamsters union represents 1,200 MillerCoors worker nationwide.
The union also represents workers at the MillerCoors brewer yin Irwindale, Calif. Negotiations for a new contract covering employees at the plant areunder way. MillerCoors is a jointr venture between MillerBrewing Co., Milwaukee, and Coorsz Brewing Co., Golden, Colo., that launched in July 2008. MillerCoors operatee a major brewery and regional officeon Milwaukee’s west Workers at the Milwaukee brewery are represented by Brewerg Workers Local 9 of the United Auto Workers union.