Month: November 2015

Teamsters at Coca-Cola Refreshments Authorize ULP Strike

Teamsters at Coca-Cola Refreshments Authorize ULP Strike

More than 225 Coca-Cola Refreshments workers represented by Teamsters Local 727 voted Sunday, November 29 to authorize an unfair labor practice strike against the beverage industry behemoth. The Teamsters voted…

Teamsters Local 727 Files Unfair Labor Practices Against Coca-Cola Refreshments

Teamsters Local 727 Files Unfair Labor Practices Against Coca-Cola Refreshments

Teamsters Local 727 on Tuesday filed numerous unfair labor practice charges against Coca-Cola Refreshments, a subsidiary of Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO), that include bargaining in bad faith, intimidation of workers with…

Coca-Cola Offers Insulting Economics Package, Ignores Vast Majority of Union Proposals

Coca-Cola Offers Insulting Economics Package, Ignores Vast Majority of Union Proposals

With only one more day of contract negotiations on the calendar, management for Coca-Cola returned to the bargaining table with Local 727 on Monday admitting they “didn’t know where to…

Coca-Cola Dances Around Proposals With Local 727, But Agrees to Bargaining Dates

Coca-Cola Dances Around Proposals With Local 727, But Agrees to Bargaining Dates

Despite agreeing to a 10 a.m. start time on Friday, Nov. 20, Coca-Cola representatives finally sat down at the bargaining table after 2 p.m. for what was originally the final…

LOCAL 727 REACHES TENTATIVE AGREEMENT ON NEW 4-YEAR REYES/GREAT LAKES COCA-COLA CONTRACT

LOCAL 727 REACHES TENTATIVE AGREEMENT ON NEW 4-YEAR REYES/GREAT LAKES COCA-COLA CONTRACT

Teamsters Local 727 reached tentative agreement on a new four-year contract for 600 members at Reyes/Great Lakes Coca-Cola. Final negotiations stretched late into the night on Nov. 19 as the Bargaining…