Negotiations between Detroit Golf Club and the unionized groundskeepers there have made little to no progress.

"DGC continues to bargain, as they always have been," said Detroit Golf Club spokesperson Stephanie Freedman in an email to the Free Press on Monday.

Attempts to contact Teamsters Local 299 president Kevin Moore and treasurer Roy Gross weren't immediately successful on Wednesday.

The day before the opening round of the last week's Rocket Mortgage Classic, about 50 members of Teamsters Local 299 picketed outside the Detroit Golf Club in support of the five groundskeepers and two maintenance workers seeking increased wages, better health care benefits and job security language in their contract.

At the demonstration, Moore said they would be out there "as long as it takes." However, Moore called off demonstrations after just one day to continue negotiations.

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The union had been seeking a 45-cent hourly pay raise (3%) under a new contract. The workers' previous contract expired in 2018, and in May the talks hit a fever pitch when the union filed an unfair labor practice charge against the golf club, citing a "failure to negotiate in good faith."

On June 14, talks ceased when Detroit Golf Club president Andrew Glassberg walked out of negotiations.

Glassberg said last week the club offered the workers a contract with benefits and salaries 4% higher per year than the most recent contract and a 17% increase over the life of the contract. The union deemed the offer insufficient, citing a 15% to 20% wage reduction in 2015 and a nearly $600-a-month increase in out-of-pocket medical expenses for family medical.

Teamsters Local 299 never went back out to demonstrate during the first PGA Tour event held in Detroit.

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