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Reyes/Great Lakes Coca-Cola Outside Workers Secure New Agreement

Members Ratify Company’s New Offer with Overtime Enhancements Teamsters Local 727-represented outside workers at Reyes/Great Lakes Coca-Cola Distribution overwhelmingly ratified a new four-year contract on Dec. 27. After the members…

Coca-Cola Gives Union Partially Regressive Offer, Stands Still on Wages, Kills Retroactivity — Then Asks Members to Vote

Coca-Cola Refreshments waited more than eight hours during the second day of mediation before handing the Teamsters a partially regressive economic package. Management refused to call the proposal a “last,…

Setting the Record Straight: Coca-Cola’s Real Wage Increases After Health and Welfare Deductions

VIEW / DOWNLOAD WAGE & INSURANCE ANALYSIS The attached charts include all proposed wages and health care increases included in Coca-Cola Refreshments’ economic package presented to Teamsters Local 727 on…

Coca-Cola Admits to Overcharging for Health Care Costs

During federal mediation with Teamsters Local 727 on Tuesday, Coca-Cola Refreshments openly admitted its unreasonable proposals would overcharge workers for health care coverage. Across the bargaining table, Coca-Cola said its…

Mediation to Resume Tuesday, But Coca-Cola Trashes Retroactivity, Adds Pitiful Health Care Increases in Latest Proposal

Coca-Cola Refreshments abruptly broke off negotiations on Monday night with Local 727 and asked to resume mediation on Tuesday, December 15. After the union had already told the company it…