Bunzl, a global service and food packaging distribution company headquartered in Great Britain, just signed a new contract with Teamsters Local Union 830. Bunzl is a major distributor of non-essential food products such as personal protection equipment, cleaning and hygiene supplies, food service supplies, disposable tableware and packaging for various customer markets, including grocery enterprises. Bunzl is the largest value-added distributor in the world in Teamsters Local 830’s market sectors, with operations across the Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific and the UK and Ireland.
“Bunzl is a long-term, highly valued partner of Teamsters Local 830 and we are thrilled to have reached this new five-year contract with them,” said Teamsters Local 830 Secretary-Treasurer Daniel H. Grace.
Bunzl’s members ratified the new contract at Teamsters Local 830’s union hall, 12298 Townsend Road. The Local 830 bargaining committee members included Jim Kopan, Dave Mammarrello, Duke Green and Archangel Gutierrez, along with Grace and Local 830 President Chuck White.
The new contract runs from July 1, 2026 to June 30, 2030.
Highlights of the contract include:
• Wage increases – Wages for drivers are $28.95 an hour plus an additional $2.15 an hour in year one, plus an additional $1.15 an hour gets added in each additional year thereafter.
• Wages for warehousemen are $28.19 an hour. They will receive an additional $1.81 an hour in year one and an additional 85 cents an hour in each additional year thereafter.
• Personal days increased by one additional day for a total of nine personal days.
• Health and welfare gains – The Local 830 bargaining unit shall remain in the union healthcare medical plan and their cost share for that plan will be frozen for two years and will only increase by $5 per week starting in year three of the contract . The members’ cost share has been frozen since 2021 and that freeze will remain in effect until July 2028 .Also, a new opt-out of benefit will be offered to all employees with a monetary payment of $50 per week for a waiver of coverage.
• Pension – The employer’s contribution to the pension plan will increase 2% in each year of the contract.
• Retirement savings plan – The employer shall increase its contribution an additional $5 per week per employee in addition to its current amount.
• Wage progression and probation period – The employer agreed to the union demand for a new two-year path progression to reach full wage rate in the warehouse classification. which was one of the union’s main bargaining goals during contract negotiations. These negotiations also shortened the new employee probationary period by 40 days.
• Attendance policy – The union was able to achieve some changes to the attendance policy in defining a late violation and no call-no show violation and added a step of discipline prior to the termination step. The union was also able to reduce the good attendance regression time period from 90 consecutive work days to a shorter period of 75 consecutive scheduled work days.
• Technological Threats – Both sides agreed to put new verbiage into the contract to address artificial intelligence and technological threats to potential replacement and job loss, and also added protection of seniority verbiage in the contract in regard to scheduling. ••
