The Beverage Market, which services over 1,900 customers statewide varying from local bars and restaurants to chain convenience stores and grocers and is the sole distributor for Miller-Coors products in several counties throughout West Virginia, has been trying to decrease several employees’ pay, cut paid time off in half, eliminate portions of retirement, and increase health insurance premiums by staggering amounts.

WV AFL-CIO President Josh Sword said members from other unions were eager to let Teamsters, and the public, know they’re with them. “We have a saying in the labor movement: “An injury to one is an injury to all.’  As long as The Beverage Market workers are denied a fair contract, union members will fight by their side to right this wrong.”

The WV AFL-CIO and its affiliates provided lunch from Sam’s Uptown Café, which is among the many local businesses that are supporting the Teamsters by rejecting deliveries from The Beverage Market until the strike is resolved.