More than 25 workers at Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits in Lakeland, Fla., have overwhelmingly voted to join Teamsters Local 79

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More than 25 workers at Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits in Lakeland, Fla., have overwhelmingly voted to join Teamsters Local 79. The sanitation, inventory control, salvage, and day yard trailer jockeys organized for increased wages, improved benefits, and job protections.



These workers join their 270 warehouse colleagues at the Lakeland facility who joined Local 79 in December 2024 and ratified their first collective bargaining agreement in July 2025.



“We saw what the folks in the warehouse were able to gain through Teamsters representation and wanted that for ourselves,” Curtis McCoy, a steward at Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits. “Joining the Teamsters gives us the power to fight for better wages and a better life for our families.”





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