Daily News | Teamsters have voted to strike at Philly area’s largest Coca-Cola distributor
Unionized warehouse workers, drivers and sales staff at the region’s largest Coca-Cola bottler and distributor voted to strike on Sunday, Teamsters Local 830 leadership said.
“Liberty Coca-Cola has treated my members and the entire [bargaining] process with disdain,” Local 830 Secretary-Treasurer Daniel H. Grace said in a statement. He said the company was not offering satisfactory compensation or benefits to workers, and called the most recent contract proposal “insulting.”The local, which counts about 3,500 members, is setting up a picket line at 725 E. Erie Ave.
Five years ago, the union came close to striking amid tense contract negotiations in the wake of the city’s soda tax, which spurred a 38.9% reduction in the purchase of sweetened beverages, a
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