MOLSON COORS OFFERS WORKERS 5 CENTS, CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS COLLAPSE IN TEXAS [View all]

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PR Newswire Thu, Mar 28, 2024, 2:30 PM CDT

41-Day Strike Continues, Teamsters Boycott Coors and Miller During March Madness

FORT WORTH, Texas, March 28, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Negotiations with Molson Coors broke off on Thursday over the multibillion-dollar beermaker's refusal to agree to real wage increases for Teamsters in a new three-year contract. Members of Teamsters Local 997 continue to hold the strike line 24/7 at the Fort Worth brewery as a nationwide boycott of Molson Coors products continues.

In negotiations that included a mediator on Thursday, Molson Coors offered just five more cents per hour in its wage proposal to the workers who brew and package its signature beers. For months, Molson Coors had not budged from its original degrading offer of 99-cent per hour raises. Since workers were forced onto the picket line 41 days ago, Molson Coors CEO Gavin Hattersley has been paid more than $5.1 million.

"Molson Coors is a total disgrace. This isn't a serious offer from one of America's biggest beer companies. It's an example of the willful disrespect it has for the American workers behind its products. Molson Coors doesn't care about Texas workers or their hard labor or the sacrifices their families have made to make the company rich. The corporate end game here is to try to drive the union out of the brewery in Texas. Molson Coors wants to break the workers," said Teamsters General President Sean M. O'Brien. "Let me be clear — the Teamsters aren't going anywhere. We will fight as hard and for as long as it takes to protect our members and get the wages they deserve. It shouldn't be difficult for Molson Coors to agree to a respectable contract, unless their goal is to deprive workers of fair wages and strip them of good benefits and job protections."

"Molson Coors brought in $12 billion last year, and they have the nerve to sit across from us at the bargaining table and offer workers who made them that money a nickel more in wages. We can't even call this an offer — it's spitting in the face of each of the 420 Teamsters in Texas who make this company and its executives obscenely wealthy," said Jeff Padellaro, Director of the Teamsters Brewery, Bakery, and Soft Drink Conference.




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