ANHEUSER-BUSCH, BREWERS TENTATIVELY AGREE.Byline: Enrique Rivero Staff Writer The brewers This is a list of member brewers of the Brewers Association. Numbered
The two sides announced Thursday they have reached a tentative agreement on a long-disputed union contract. The new five-year contract will bring brewers up to an average $23.65 an hour over its duration - around $50 when benefits are included, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. company officials - and affects 680 Teamsters Teamsters large, powerful union of U. S. truckers. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 2703] See : Labor in the Van Nuys brewery A brewery can be a building or place that produces beer, or a business (brewing company) whose trade is the production and sale of beer. Breweries can take up multiple city blocks, or be a collection of equipment in a homebrewer's kitchen. . ``Our employees will have one of the best compensation packages in all of American industry at the end of this period,'' said John Kaestner, senior group director for Anheuser-Busch. The company has about 8,000 brewers in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , he said. The contract, which runs through February 2004, must still be ratified rat·i·fy tr.v. rat·i·fied, rat·i·fy·ing, rat·i·fies To approve and give formal sanction to; confirm. See Synonyms at approve. by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. The Teamsters will send out ballots to its members next week and expects to have them tallied in about a month, spokesman Chip Roth said. Average pay is now $21 an hour. Under the contract, brewers would receive 50 cents-per-hour increases in each of the first two years, and 55 cents-per-hour increases in each of the subsequent three years, for a total of $23.65 an hour, Roth said. They'll also get one-time bonuses tied to Anheuser-Busch's stock performance, according to Kaestner. In addition, brewers will continue to receive free health benefits, and they have been given a guarantee from Anheuser-Busch that the company will not close any of its 12 plants over the duration of the contract. ``It was important to bring a bitter struggle to a conclusion, and achieving job security for the members was the most important goal,'' Roth said. |
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