Service workers at the University of Minnesota have accepted a new two-year contract offer. It averts a strike by over 15-hundred members of Teamsters Local 320 that was tentatively set for Friday. The new contract gives a two-percent increase to longest-serving employees but there are not across-the-board increases for less-senior workers — something union leaders called “divisive.” U-of-M officials say they’re pleased the Teamsters accepted the contract offer and it now goes to the Board of Regents for approval.