Diamond Workers Back to Work

Workers at the world's largest walnut processing plant have voted to end a strike that has dragged on for more than 13 years.

Members of the Teamsters Local 601 ratified a new contract last night that clears the way for the workers at Diamond of California to go back to work Monday.

A union official says that most of the strikers that walked off the job back in September of 1991 have since found jobs elsewhere and aren't expected to return. Workers at the plant took a 30 percent pay cut in 1985 during tough times. At the time, they said they expected to be repaid as the cooperative's finances improved.

The union's leadership ordered the walkout when Diamond offered a dime-an-hour raise and a bonus package in 1991.

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