Tyson Foods has secured a new pay agreement with the Teamsters union at its beef processing facility in Texas.
Representing 3,100 Tyson employees at the Amarillo site, Teamsters Local 577 announced that the negotiating committee unanimously endorsed a four-year contract.
This agreement features a significant 32% wage increase, enhanced paid time off, and expanded retirement benefits.
Union President Al Brito stated: “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.”
He further emphasized, “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 facility voted 98% in favor of a strike, advocating for “higher wages and improved benefits.”
In January, Tyson was part of a nine-member group of U.S. poultry processors that agreed to settle a long-standing wage dispute. This settlement, spanning more than twenty years, involved a collective payment of $180.8 million to plaintiffs, though Tyson and its co-defendants have not admitted liability.
According to court documents, 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.”
