UPDATE: Jim Beam workers in Kentucky reject new offer

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) – Another round, same results for Jim Beam as its distillery workers in Kentucky have rejected another contract offer.

The Friday vote came hours before a looming strike at the world’s largest bourbon producer.

United Food and Commercial Workers union official Tommy Ballard says workers at Beam distilleries in Clermont and Boston rejected a revised contract proposal by a wide margin.

The company did not immediately respond to the latest vote. The American whiskey brand is owned by Suntory Holdings Ltd., a Japanese beverage company.

The current contract runs through Friday. Earlier in the week, union members voted overwhelming in favor of going on strike after rejecting the company’s offer.

The company came back with a revised offer.