Five thousand workers at 12 Anheuser-Busch plants across the U.S. could walk off the job as soon as Friday, the day after the Teamsters’ current contract expires. The union posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Tuesday morning that the nation’s largest beer company has two days to offer a better contract or thousands of workers are ready for strike.
Molson Coors is proceeding with production of beer products at its Forth Worth, Texas, brewery — with the help of salaried workers and other employees — despite 420 workers being on strike since Feb. 17.
On Feb. 21, at the Consumer Analyst Group of New York conference in Boca Raton, Florida, Molson Coors CEO Gavin Hattersley said the company was not able to reach a deal with the Fort Worth-area Teamsters union despite negotiations. The CEO told attendees the company feels good about its prospects for handling the strike, as it had a “very comprehensive” contingency plan it had ready to roll out.
“We packaged beer. We brewed beer. We delivered beer. And in fact, we actually delivered a little more than our contingency plan actually suggested we should. So the brewery is off to a great start. We've got five other breweries that we can shift volume to if we need to,” Hattersley said.
Tracey Joubert, the beverage giant’s chief financial officer, added that the impact of the strike is “immaterial right now.”
Christopher Doering and Joelle Anselmo contributed to this report.
