
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, July 28, 1995                   TAG: 9507280071
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: A-7   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: ELKTON, VA.                                LENGTH: Short

COORS WORKERS REJECT TEAMSTERS

Production employees at Coors Brewing Co. have rejected by a 127-99 vote the Teamsters' bid to serve as their collective bargaining agent.

Peter Coors, the company's chief executive officer who visited the plant earlier this week to encourage workers to reject the Teamsters' overture, said Thursday's vote is a sign that the nonunion arrangement works.

``Our employees were offered a choice, and they chose to continue building a partnership with management,'' Coors said from the company's headquarters in Golden, Colo.

A majority of the 238 eligible workers at the Elkton plant signed signature cards in favor of holding the two-day, secret-ballot election.

The main issues were benefits and job security at the plant. Workers were concerned the $7 an hour temporary workers with no benefits could replace permanent employees who earn about $16 an hour.

- Associated Press

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