Tyson Foods has reached an agreement on pay with the Teamsters union at one of its beef processing facilities in Texas.
According to the Teamsters Local 577 group that represents 3,100 Tyson workers at the site in Amarillo, the negotiating committee unanimously endorsed a new four-year deal.
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The agreement includes a 32% wage increase, more paid time off and expanded retirement benefits.
Al Brito, the president of the local union, said: “This victory is what Texas Teamsters are all about – coming together as one so we can fight for a better life for ourselves and our families.
“Let this be a lesson to everyone else in the meatpacking industry – if you’re not happy with work, it doesn’t have to stay that way. You can win a better future with the Teamsters.”
Earlier this week, staff at the site voted 98% in favour of strike action, demanding “higher wages and improved benefits”.
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By GlobalDataIn January, Tyson was part of a nine-member group of US poultry processors that had agreed to settle a wage dispute stretching back more than two decades.
The meat giant and the eight other defendants agreed to pay $180.8m to plaintiffs in the latest settlement round, although Tyson Foods and the rest of the group have not admitted liability.
According to the court document, the nine processors “conspired to suppress the compensation paid to workers at poultry processing plants, hatcheries, feed mills and complexes over a nearly twenty-year period”.
