The Beverage Market services over 1,900 customers statewide and is the sole distributor for Miller-Coors products in several counties throughout W.Va.

“It’s disturbing that Miller would allow this distributor’s disgusting behavior to negatively impact its market share in W. Va,” said Luke Farley, Secretary-Treasurer of Local 175.  “This Company has treated these negotiations like a joke and its unreasonable concessionary demands show a fundamental lack of respect for these members and their families.”

“This job is how I have provided for my family for 17 years,” said Ken Samms, a shop steward and driver at the Beverage Market. “I want to retire from this place, but management is trying to take that away. My fellow Teamsters and I don’t want to strike but the company’s aggressive corporate greed has given us no choice. We will continue to fight to keep and secure our hard-earned benefits.”

Teamsters Local 175 represents thousands of members in the great states of West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio and Virginia. For more information, go to teamsters175.org.