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As Award Season Nears, Teamsters Secure First New Wages in Four Years
CHICAGO, Dec. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Hollywood's biggest awards will continue to be finished by American labor after a Chicago Teamsters reached a agreement agreement on Dec. 22 with a longtime manufacturers of a Oscars and Emmy Awards.
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Fifty Teamsters with R.S. Owens & Company in Chicago voted overwhelmingly to sanction their initial new agreement in 4 years. The three-year agreement includes a workers' initial new salary increases given 2006. The raises will be retroactive to a prior contract's death on Nov. 14, with normal hourly salary between $13-$14.
"Many of a group and women who make these awards have finished so for 30 years, and a Teamsters are unapproachable to continue this abounding tradition," pronounced Donnie Von Moore, President of Teamsters Local 743, that represents a workers. "Our members willingly worked shorter hours for a improved partial of a year to assistance R.S. Owens save money, and we're gratified their tough work and loyalty to a qualification have not left unnoticed."
Teamsters also recorded vacation and other advantages but a work stoppage. Though Oscars will be handed out Feb. 26, 2012, Owens employees furnish and gloss a golden statues via a year. In further to a Emmys, workers also emanate a MTV Video Music Awards, a Academy of Country Music Awards and reproduction statues of a Super Bowl trophy.
"Superior craftsmanship are required to furnish these awards and Teamster labor will continue to be a bullion standard," pronounced John T. Coli, President of Teamsters Joint Council 25. "The Teamsters are committed to a partnership with R.S. Owens and championing a squeeze of American products finished by kinship labor."
Unions via a party attention upheld Local 743 during negotiations for a new contract, including a Chicago Entertainment Industry Labor Council, IATSE Theatrical Stage Employees Union Local 2 and a Chicago Federation of Musicians.
SOURCE Teamsters Joint Council 25
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