AUSTIN, MINN. — Hormel Foods Corp. reached a tentative contract with the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 663 on Oct. 4.

The details of the new agreement will first be shared with union members during membership meetings this weekend.

“We are pleased that we have reached a new, four-year tentative agreement with the unions representing our team members in Atlanta, Ga., Austin, Minn., Algona, Iowa, and Beloit, Wis.,” said a Hormel spokesperson. “We are proud to continuously invest in our people in recognition of the work they do to put the safe, quality food that consumers trust and need on tables across the globe. We appreciate the negotiators on both sides of the table who bargained in good faith to reach this tentative agreement, and we are hopeful the contract will be ratified in the upcoming vote next week.”

Hormel workers will vote to ratify the contract on Oct. 9. The results will be announced the same day.

UFCW recommended union members vote in favor of the contract.

“We unanimously recommend this tentative agreement to our fellow union members at Hormel,” the union said. “We are grateful for the strength our coworkers showed throughout this bargaining process to keep our voices heard. When we show up for each other, we see each other, and only together will we succeed because we are a union.”

Before this new agreement, workers rejected what Hormel had proposed as a “final agreement” in September. Following their rejection, the parties agreed to extend the most recent contract to Oct. 8.