Employees of a Wheatley cold storage facility ratified a new ten-year contract on the weekend and are back at work after a six-week strike.
Rolando Cabral, the president of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 459, says the 21 workers at Milo-Fais, formerly Omstead plant, are hoping the deal provides stability.
"It's a company that has only been around for three or four years, the plant has been there forever, but it's a new company and they needed a long deal in order to move forward," he says. "For a ten year deal we needed to get enough back and one of our big issues was the pension plan and I think everybody got what they needed."
The workers make in the range of $20 per hour. Cabral says having a long term contract allows the company to get long term contracts with its customers.
