Teamsters inks tentative agreement with Hertz, averting strike

(Reuters) - Teamsters has reached a tentative agreement with car-rental firm Hertz Global, averting a potential strike, the labor union said on Monday.

Nearly 3,000 Hertz Teamsters members at 20 local unions had voted last week to strike if a new agreement was not reached by Monday.

Teamsters members at Hertz were negotiating for higher pay and language in an agreement that they feared would create a "two-tier system."

The workers were covered under the Western Regional Master Agreement with Hertz and were represented by locals in Arizona, California, Colorado and Nevada, among other states.

(Reporting by Akash Sriram in Bengaluru; Editing by Alan Barona)