Workers at UFCW Local 6 have ratified a new contract covering 250 Smithfield/Armour Eckrich workers in Mason City, Iowa, that provides solid wage increases, lower worker health care costs with improved health care benefits, and retirement security.

In Mason City, the new four-year contract:

• Increases wages by $1.40 over the four year term of the contract
• Maintains affordable health insurance and adds improved well child care and a variety of improvements in health care benefits
• Improves vacation pay
• Improves retirement
• Improves sick pay