Members of Teamsters Local 325 in Rockford, Ill., protested at the Chicago Bears game at Soldiers Field yesterday in opposition to plans by MillerCoors’, a subsidiary of Molson Coors Brewing Company (NYSE: TAP), largest distributor in Illinois, Hayes Beer Distributing Company, to destroy any guarantees of health care coverage.

After the Diageo company, the makers of Johnny Walker whiskey announced the possibility of 900 layoffs, Teamsters President James P. Hoffa sent a letter to Diageo CEO Paul Walsh urging him to keep the workers in two distilleries in Scotland employed. Last year Diageo’s profits were in excess of $4 billion and the CEO’s own salary was $10 million.

Teamsters at MillerCoors breweries in Eden, N.C., and Fort Worth, Texas, have ratified new, three-year contracts. The agreements cover more than 900 employees at the two breweries and provide wage and pension increases over the three-year contracts.

By an over 90 percent margin, members of Local Union 118 working at High Falls Brewing Company in Rochester, New York, have ratified a new, four-year collective bargaining agreement.