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Local 7 Ratification Updates...
NEW!
Kaiser Worker-Negotiators Get Two Year, All-Gains National TA.
JBS Greeley Ratified! Workers vote 99%+ in favor of new agreement. (Kim Cordova)
Butterball Longmont Ratified! Workers vote 80+"Yes." (Lorenzo Sanchez) Way to go Greeley Team!!
Mission Foods (Update) Ratified! Members voted Friday, April 30, to ratify new contract, supported by negotiating team. (Kim Cordova) Congratulations Mission Team!
Military Barbers Ratified! Fort Carson Barbers approved an all gains contract Thursday, April 29, 2010. The new contract provides two additional paid holidays, one week paid vacation, an increase in commissions to 58%, company paying for 1/2 of the employees' rapid pass. ABC check off language. Negotiations for other barber units TBA. (Cindy Lucero, John Mathewson)
Darling Incorporated (Pecol Manufacturing & National Byproducts)
Ratified! February (Lorenzo Sanchez)
Culinaire, Inc. Ratified!
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Pueblo Mission Foods Workers Hold Out For Better Deal
Vote To Ratify
Mission Foods Workers Ratify Three-Year Contract
Workers "Overwhelmingly" Back New Agreement
Worker Negotiating Team: "It was worth it to hold out for a better deal."
(Pueblo, CO. May 3 2010)--Workers at Mission Foods in Pueblo are working under a new contract Monday, May 3, after voting "nearly unanimously" to approve a new offer from the company.
Workers voted earlier by a large margin to call for a strike unless the company offered a better deal. Workers met with management last week to work out a new three-year deal, which the worker-negotiating team recommended.
"It was worth it to hold out for a better offer," said Tony Sanchez, a member of the worker negotiating team. "We got a little more money for workers," he explained. The new wage increase is on top of a pay boost negotiated in earlier bargaining sessions.
United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 represents nearly 200 production workers at the company, which produces tortillas and similar food products. Members of the negotiating team and union representatives went through the plant before the vote encouraging workers to ratify the new contract.
"If this were a political election, I'd call the vote a landslide," said Ron Lucero, the lead Local 7 representative at the plant.
"Word around the plant is that we got a fair deal," said Janet Romero, another member of the bargaining team. She said workers were also pleased with contract provisions that will hold the cost of health care insurance.
After the votes were counted, negotiating team member Dave Galvez said, "The vote was all about unity. Everybody stuck together for a fair contract."
Local 7 President Kim Cordova and Secretary-Treasurer Cindy Lucero negotiated on behalf of the workers.
Texas-based Mission Foods produces tortilla products at six plants in the US. Mission is owned by global conglomerate Grumman Corporation of Monterey, Mexico.
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