ARKANSAS, USA — The new five-year labor agreement between ArcBest Corp. of Fort Smith and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters was “overwhelmingly” approved by union members in a national vote tabulated, the Teamsters said in a news release Friday.
The only hiccup is that two of the 27 regional supplements were voted down. The company and the union said new tentative agreements on those supplements were reached, and the two local union holdouts, Southern Garage and Western States Pickup & Delivery, would vote this week.
The national agreement will cover 8,600 members in 137 local unions who work in the U.S. for ABF Freight, ArcBest’s less-than-truckload subsidiary. The contract’s official start date is July 1 and will run through June 2028 once the final two supplements are approved.
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