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and Fort Worth, Texas, have ratified new, three-year contracts. The agreementsa cover more than 900 employees at the two breweries and provide wage and pension increases over the course ofthe contracts. “Our members overwhelmingly ratified thesde contracts at MillerCoors because they provide stability fortheif families,” said Jack Cipriani, director of the Teamsters Brewery and Soft Drini Workers Conference, which representas workers at the breweries. “For the next three years, our memberss at MillerCoors know that their wages and pension benefits will which is saying a lotin today’s economy.
” The contracts call for no health care cost increasea for workers in the first year of the contractf and only minor increases for the second and third according to the union. The new deal also guaranteesa that employees who have retired or who will retire during the course ofthe three-year contracts won’f be required to pay health care “We value all generations of our so we made sure that there were improvementsx for both active members at MillerCoors and the retireesw who had paved the way beforew with their long yearsz of service,” Cipriani The Teamsters union represents 1,200 MillerCoors workers nationwide.
The unionh also represents workers at the MillerCoors breweryyin Irwindale, Calif. Negotiations for a new contract covering employeeds at the plant areunded way. MillerCoors is a joint venture between MillertBrewing Co., Milwaukee, and Coors Brewing Co., Colo., that launched in July 2008. MillerCoors operatesw a major brewery and regionall officeon Milwaukee’s west side. Workers at the Milwaukewe brewery are represented by Brewery Workers Local 9 of the Unitef AutoWorkers union.