Molson Coors workers in Texas go on strike
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FORT WORTH, Texas — Unionized workers at the Molson Coors brewery in Fort Worth are officially on strike.
Members of Teamsters Local 997 began picketing outside the brewery Saturday after failing to come to terms on a new three-year contract for 420 workers who make, package, and warehouse the company’s products.
The union president told WFAA that the workers will return to the picket line Monday.
The union says they are seeking higher pay and improvements to health and retirement benefits.
The two sides have not publicly disclosed details included in their contract proposals, but 93% of Local 997 Molson Coors Teamsters voted to reject their employers' latest offer.
“The greed and abuse from Molson Coors must end now,” said Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien in a press release. “Executives shamelessly brag to investors about the company’s incredible growth and historic earnings….We’re not taking the disrespect, we’re not accepting the crumbs, and we’re not making concessions. The Teamsters are taking this fight to the streets, and we will hold the line until our members get what they have earned.”
Molson Coors this week reported a fourth-quarter profit of $103.3 million. The Teamsters say the company’s year-end 2023 earnings were its highest in 19 years.
“While we respect the Union’s right to strike, we have strong contingency plans in place, and those plans are already well underway. We deliberately built up distributor inventories across the country in recent weeks, our five other U.S. breweries have extra capacity, and we are well equipped to ensure that consumers will be able to buy their favorite Molson Coors products," Molson Coors spokesperson Adam Collins told WFAA. "At this point, the union has not responded to our last offer, which exceeds local market rates for similar unionized roles, but we remain committed to reaching an agreement that is fair to both our employees and to the Fort Worth brewery.”
On Feb. 8, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters announced it increased strike benefits to $1,000 per week for members of Local 997.
The brewery, located at 7001 South Freeway, opened in 1969 and became the home of Miller Lite in 1975. According to the Molson Coors website, 520 employees work at the Fort Worth site.
Molson Coors announced a $65 million investment in the Fort Worth brewery to grow its capabilities and increase its in-house hard seltzer production. The facility is the company's only plant where co-branded products are assembled and packaged.
For everyone else:
FORT WORTH, Texas — Unionized workers at the Molson Coors brewery in Fort Worth are officially on strike.
Members of Teamsters Local 997 began picketing outside the brewery Saturday after failing to come to terms on a new three-year contract for 420 workers who make, package, and warehouse the company’s products.
The union president told WFAA that the workers will return to the picket line Monday.
The union says they are seeking higher pay and improvements to health and retirement benefits.
The two sides have not publicly disclosed details included in their contract proposals, but 93% of Local 997 Molson Coors Teamsters voted to reject their employers' latest offer.
“The greed and abuse from Molson Coors must end now,” said Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien in a press release. “Executives shamelessly brag to investors about the company’s incredible growth and historic earnings….We’re not taking the disrespect, we’re not accepting the crumbs, and we’re not making concessions. The Teamsters are taking this fight to the streets, and we will hold the line until our members get what they have earned.”
Molson Coors this week reported a fourth-quarter profit of $103.3 million. The Teamsters say the company’s year-end 2023 earnings were its highest in 19 years.
“While we respect the Union’s right to strike, we have strong contingency plans in place, and those plans are already well underway. We deliberately built up distributor inventories across the country in recent weeks, our five other U.S. breweries have extra capacity, and we are well equipped to ensure that consumers will be able to buy their favorite Molson Coors products," Molson Coors spokesperson Adam Collins told WFAA. "At this point, the union has not responded to our last offer, which exceeds local market rates for similar unionized roles, but we remain committed to reaching an agreement that is fair to both our employees and to the Fort Worth brewery.”
On Feb. 8, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters announced it increased strike benefits to $1,000 per week for members of Local 997.
The brewery, located at 7001 South Freeway, opened in 1969 and became the home of Miller Lite in 1975. According to the Molson Coors website, 520 employees work at the Fort Worth site.
Molson Coors announced a $65 million investment in the Fort Worth brewery to grow its capabilities and increase its in-house hard seltzer production. The facility is the company's only plant where co-branded products are assembled and packaged.
Noose was placed on Molson Coors factory shooter’s locker amid racist abuse at factory
‘Everyone knows the environment we worked in. It’s just a sad situation that it actually happened,’ says former brewery worker
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Current and former employees said the brewery department was notorious for talk of racism and sexism.Noose was placed on Molson Coors factory shooter’s locker amid racist abuse at factory
‘Everyone knows the environment we worked in. It’s just a sad situation that it actually happened,’ says former brewery worker
“It’s a good old boys club to this day. There was a saying on the brewery floor – ‘no blacks, no bi****s,’ “ said a current employee who did not give his name for fear of jeopardizing his job. A former brewery floor worker, who did not give his name because he did not want to affect his current employment, said there was “constant harassment. The constant nitpicking. The constant racial things that were done and allowed to be done because our complaints fell on deaf ears.”
Robert Powell, a sanitation worker at the plant from 2013 to 2018, said he saw the n-word scrawled in a bathroom stall in the brewery and a swastika carved into a locker room wall. He recalled a conversation with Ferrill in March 2016, while they were on break watching college basketball games.
“He was a cool guy, didn’t show any type of aggression,” Powell said. But when Powell, who is black, said he was thinking of applying to transfer to the brewery, he said Ferrill had a warning: “They will hate on you down there.”
Raylynne Clayborn, 39, a machinist who worked for the brewery for 13 years until he was fired for missing work in 2018, said there was a “panel room” in the brewery department that served as the central nervous system for making beer. He alleges that white employees hung racist cartoons there – including of monkeys and blackface characters eating watermelon — and they remained there until the black employees removed them.
My goodness. WTF is this company?
Current and former employees said the brewery department was notorious for talk of racism and sexism.
“It’s a good old boys club to this day. There was a saying on the brewery floor – ‘no blacks, no bi****s,’ “ said a current employee who did not give his name for fear of jeopardizing his job. A former brewery floor worker, who did not give his name because he did not want to affect his current employment, said there was “constant harassment. The constant nitpicking. The constant racial things that were done and allowed to be done because our complaints fell on deaf ears.”
Robert Powell, a sanitation worker at the plant from 2013 to 2018, said he saw the n-word scrawled in a bathroom stall in the brewery and a swastika carved into a locker room wall. He recalled a conversation with Ferrill in March 2016, while they were on break watching college basketball games.
“He was a cool guy, didn’t show any type of aggression,” Powell said. But when Powell, who is black, said he was thinking of applying to transfer to the brewery, he said Ferrill had a warning: “They will hate on you down there.”
Raylynne Clayborn, 39, a machinist who worked for the brewery for 13 years until he was fired for missing work in 2018, said there was a “panel room” in the brewery department that served as the central nervous system for making beer. He alleges that white employees hung racist cartoons there – including of monkeys and blackface characters eating watermelon — and they remained there until the black employees removed them.
My goodness. WTF is this company?
They were also against civil rights. I stopped drinking Coors along time ago.
