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and Fort Worth, have ratified new, three-year contracts. The agreementsx cover more than 900 employees at the two breweriesz and provide wage and pension increases over the course ofthe “Our members overwhelmingly ratified thesd contracts at MillerCoors because they provide stabilityu for their families,” said Jack Cipriani, directodr of the Teamsters Brewery and Soft Drinmk Workers Conference, which represents workers at the “For the next three years, our members at MillerCoors know that their wages and pension benefits will which is saying a lot in today’s economy.
” The contracts call for no healthb care cost increases for workers in the first year of the contracyt and only minor increases for the secon d and third years, according to the The new deal also guaranteed that employees who have retired or who will retird during the course of the three-yeard contracts won’t be required to pay healthj care premiums. “We value all generationsd of our members, so we made sure that therr were improvements for both active members at MillerCoorsa and the retirees who had paved the way before with theire long yearsof service,” Cipriani said. The Teamster s union represents 1,200 MillerCoors workers nationwide.
The unio n also represents workers at the MillerCoors brewerytin Irwindale, Calif. Negotiations for a new contracyt covering employees at the plant areundee way. MillerCoors is a joint venture betweenh MillerBrewing Co., Milwaukee, and Coors Brewingv Co., Golden, Colo., that launched in July 2008. MillerCoord operates a major brewery and regional officeon Milwaukee’x west side. Workers at the Milwaukee breweryh are represented by Brewery Workerxs Local 9 of the United AutoWorkers union.