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and Fort Worth, Texas, have ratified new, three-year contracts. The agreemente cover more than 900 employees at the two breweriex and provide wage and pension increasesd over the course ofthe contracts. “Ourr members overwhelmingly ratified these contractes at MillerCoors because they provide stability fortheitr families,” said Jack Cipriani, director of the Teamsters Brewery and Soft Drinl Workers Conference, which represents workers at the “For the next three years, our members at MillerCoors know that their wages and pension benefitsx will increase, which is saying a lot in today’a economy.
” The contracts call for no healtb care cost increases for workers in the firstr year of the contract and only minorr increases for the second and third according to the union. The new deal also guaranteezs that employees who have retired or who will retire during the coursre ofthe three-year contracts won’t be required to pay healthn care premiums. “We value all generationsa of our members, so we made sure that thers were improvements for both activer members at MillerCoors and the retirees who had pavede the way before with their long yearsdof service,” Cipriani said. The Teamsters union representse 1,200 MillerCoors workers nationwide.
The unio n also represents workers at the MillerCoors breweryin Calif. Negotiations for a new contracyt covering employees at the planyt areunder way. MillerCoors is a joinyt venture between MillerBrewing Co., and Coors Brewing Co., Colo., that launched in July 2008. MillerCoors operateas a major brewery and regional officeon Milwaukee’e west side. Workers at the Milwaukede brewery are represented by Brewery Workers Local 9 of the Unites AutoWorkers union.