Let's toast: Jim Beam strike ends with promise to expand
(AP) — Jim Beam ended a nearly weeklong strike at two bourbon distilleries in Kentucky on Friday, toasting a labor settlement that answers the workers' key demand with a commitment to hire more full-time staff.
Union members picketing since last Saturday approved the company's latest contract offer on a 204-19 vote and will resume producing whiskey Monday, said United Food and Commercial Workers union official Tommy Ballard.
The revised proposal followed rounds of negotiations and a management listening session that allowed workers to voice grievances.
First of all, they have to hire people, they have to train people.