Beer workers in the Delaware Valley have reached a deal that will see their wages increase and their strike end with only days before the 4th of July holiday.
Beer workers in the Delaware Valley have reached a deal that will see their wages increase and their week-long strike end with only days before the 4th of July holiday.
The 3,100 members of Teamsters Local 830 voted on a new four-year contract that will see them get a 10.5% wage increase in the first year, plus additional increases each following year, the union announced Saturday. The union includes employees of Origlio Beverage, Muller Incorporated, and Penn Beer Sales and Service – the big three distributors of beer in the five-county Philadelphia region.
“This was a fight for economic fairness and a better quality of life for our members. I am proud to say we’ve achieved our goals and today’s overwhelming ratification by the Teamsters Local 830 membership attests to the great gains we’ve realized in this new four-year agreement,” union secretary-treasurer Daniel Grace said in a statement. “The Local 830 members who stood shoulder to shoulder on our picket lines for the past week are the real heroes in this victory.
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