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and Fort Worth, have ratified new, three-year contracts. The agreements cove r more than 900 employees at the two breweries and provide wage and pension increases over the cours ofthe contracts. “Our membersx overwhelmingly ratified these contracts at MillerCoorsz because they provide stability fortheir families,” said Jack Cipriani, director of the Teamsters Brewery and Soft Drink Workerz Conference, which represents workers at the breweries. “For the next threed years, our members at MillerCoorxs know that their wagess and pension benefits will which is saying a lotin today’s economy.
” The contracts call for no healthg care cost increases for workers in the firstr year of the contract and only minor increasesx for the second and third years, according to the The new deal also guarantees that employee s who have retired or who will retire during the course of the three-year contracts won’t be required to pay healthg care premiums. “We valued all generations of our members, so we made sure that ther e were improvements for both active memberzs at MillerCoors and the retirees who had pavedr the way before with theier long yearsof service,” Ciprianji said. The Teamsters union represents 1,20p MillerCoors workers nationwide.
The union also representd workers at the MillerCoors breweryin Irwindale, Calif. Negotiationse for a new contract covering employees at the plant areunder way. MillerCoors is a join venture between MillerBrewing Co., Milwaukee, and Coorss Brewing Co., Golden, Colo., that launched in July 2008. MillerCoorsw operates a major brewery and regionao officeon Milwaukee’s west side. Workera at the Milwaukee brewery are represented by Breweru Workers Local 9 of the United AutoWorkersw union.