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CARGILL AND UNION SETTLE STRIKE AT ITS CORN PROCESSING PLANT IN IOWA
Savannah Blake/The Gazette
Dozens of Teamsters Local 238 union member picket outside the Cargill corn milling plant in Cedar Rapids.


by Tom Barton, Cedar Rapids Gazette newspaper

CEDAR RAPIDS -- Union workers voted Thursday to ratify a new contract with Cargill, ending a strike that lasted roughly a month.

Workers were headed back to the Cedar Rapids corn milling facility to restart production Thursday evening.

"We are pleased to have our employees back to work to help us continue to safely service our customers," plant manager Dan Pulis said in a statement Cargill provided to The Gazette.

Nearly 100 workers at Cargill's corn milling plant near the Cedar River on 16th Street SE have been on strike since Oct. 1 over what they said was a refusal by the company to provide fair pay increases. The collective bargaining agreement between the 93 Cedar Rapids employees and the Minnesota-based crop trader and food maker expired early that day.

Teamsters Local 238, the union representing the striking workers, announced an end to the strike Thursday afternoon, following a successful negotiation it said resulted in a new agreement "meeting the needs of both the workers and the company."

Neither the union nor Cargill would disclose or comment on the details of the agreement. The union also would not say how many workers voted to ratify the contract.

The Teamsters, in a new release, said the new agreement "reflects necessary compromise but ultimately brings positive terms that will strengthen both Cargill's workforce and its relationship with the community."

Jesse Case, principal officer of Teamsters Local 238, called the mutual resolution a "win-win."

"We look forward to restoring and continuing to build a cooperative relationship with Cargill as we all move forward together," Case said in a statement provided by the Teamsters.

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