BUSCH CONTRACT MULLED; STRIKE POSSIBLE IN VAN NUYS.Byline: Anthony Massucci Bloomberg News Unionized workers at Anheuser-Busch Cos.' Van Nuys plant said they're examining the company's latest contract offer but won't strike before a rank-and-file meeting scheduled for Wednesday. Anheuser-Busch Cos. faces a national strike after Teamsters union Teamsters Union, U.S. labor union formed in 1903 by the amalgamation of the Team Drivers International Union and the Teamsters National Union. Its full name is the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America (IBT). members voted against the company's final offer to pay them about $23.30 an hour. Teamsters Teamsters large, powerful union of U. S. truckers. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 2703] See : Labor at the St. Louis-based brewer voted 10 to 1 to authorize To empower another with the legal right to perform an action. The Constitution authorizes Congress to regulate interstate commerce. authorize v. to officially empower someone to act. (See: authority) a strike if they cannot agree on a contract by Sunday. The final offer will be put to a membership vote by a mail ballot, and the negotiating committee will urge the Teamster TEAMSTER. One who drives horses in a wagon for the purpose of carrying goods for hire he is liable as a common carrier. Story, Bailm. Sec. 496. members to vote it down, the union said. Anheuser-Busch's offer would increase base pay to $48,460, a $5,000 increase, over the five years of the contract. Benefits for the employees would rise to $25 an hour, from $22, bringing the total including wages, benefits and overtime to $48 an hour. The current contract expires Sunday, after it was extended from Feb. 28. The Teamsters began negotiating with the brewer in November on a new contract covering 8,000 workers at 12 breweries across the U.S, including the Van Nuys plant. ``Our members are ready to do what it takes to fight for good jobs,'' said David Laughton, director of the union's brewery and soft drink workers conference. Jobs covered by the Teamsters contract include maintenance workers, packers and shippers, brewers This is a list of member brewers of the Brewers Association. Numbered
At the Van Nuys plant, assistant shop steward A Labor Union official elected to represent members in a plant or particular department. The shop steward's duties include collection of dues, recruitment of new members, and initial negotiations for settlement of grievances. Cross-references Labor Union. Jeff Calzada said Teamsters Local 896 members are waiting to hear from union attorneys about the offer and are keeping an open mind. ``We've voted to authorize a strike and held practice pickets, but we're not sure what were going to do,'' he said. |
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