By KIMBERLY PIERCEALL

The Press-Enterprise

Riverside workers who manufacture frozen Mexican food for Windsor Foods' Jose Ole brand, voted Sunday to approve a proposed contract from the Dallas-based company that could end a month-long strike.

Matt Bruno, union representative with the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1167 which includes about 450 Windsor Foods workers, said the union and company officials reconvened negotiations last week after a two-week impasse. The union announced late Friday they would put the company's latest proposal up for a vote. Bruno said he expects workers to return to the Riverside factory on Wednesday or Thursday. Windsor Foods' Riverside factory is tucked away in a little-traveled, semi-industrial area south of Martin Luther King Boulevard just east of the railroad tracks and Highway 91 in Riverside.

Bruno said about 80 percent of workers voted to approve the contract on Sunday at a vote held in the union's office in Bloomington.

The strike started Sept. 10 after union officials claimed changes to employee health plans would cost workers too much. Bruno said the company had increased insurance cap limits.