Dockworkers and drivers at the USF Reddaway terminal in Grand Junction, Colorado are now Teamsters after the company recognized the workers through a card-check agreement.

The card-check agreement enabling the victory in Grand Junction was included in a contract that was ratified in August by workers at Reddaway terminals in California, Arizona and New Mexico. The contract was ratified 216-13 and covers about 400 workers.

USF Reddaway recognized the Grand Junction workers on September 7.

“The employees in Grand Junction have read the contract and ran to the Teamsters so they too can have more job protections and improved wages and benefits,” said Michael Simeone, Secretary-Treasurer of Local 17 in Denver.

The workers in Grand Junction will be covered under the same contract that was ratified in August. The five-year contract will significantly improve their wages, pensions, health care and other benefits.