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Workers Will Pay Lower Co-Pay for Health Insurance
September 20, 2005
Teamsters who bottle and deliver Pepsi-Cola products in
southern New Jersey ratified a new four-year contract on September 16. The 300
workers, who are represented by Local 830 in Philadelphia, had been on strike
since August 13.
“This new agreement is an improvement over the last one,” said Dan Grace,
Secretary-Treasurer of Local 830. “We fought off the company’s attempt to force
our members to pay a high cost for their health care coverage, plus we won an
increase in wages and additional contributions to the pension program.”
Local 830 represents the warehouse workers, production and bottling employees
and delivery drivers at the Pepsi-Cola National Brand Beverages plant in
Pennsauken, New Jersey. These members are part of the Teamsters Brewery and Soft
Drink Workers Conference, which has more than 15,000 workers at soft drink and
beer bottling and production plants nationwide.
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