Canada, NB: Moosehead Breweries reaches agreement with unionized employees to end five-week work stoppage

Moosehead Breweries Ltd. says it has reached a memorandum of agreement with its unionized employees, ending a five-week work stoppage, The Chronicle Herald communicated on March, 27.

Leaders of the New Brunswick Union of Public Employees said on March, 26 they will unanimously endorse the agreement.

The ratification vote will be held on March, 30.

The company says pickets have been removed from the brewery and work will resume on April, 3, but no details of the deal were provided.

Workers were locked out last week when talks to sign a new collective agreement broke down.

The dispute centred on Moosehead wanting to stop fully covering post-retirement medical benefits.

30 March, 2011