It's a crisis averted for beer lovers.

Union workers at Anheuser-Busch reached a tentative labor agreement with the nation's largest brewer to avoid a strike at its U.S. plants, including the one in Newark.

According to the Teamsters Union, which represents some 5000 workers at Anheuser-Busch.

The five year tentative deal significantly boost pay.

It improves health care and retirement benefits and offers more job protections for employees nationwide.

The current contract was set to expire at midnight tonight, and it would have been the first strike in the U.S. against the brewer since the 1970s.

The workers who brew and package beer and even take care of the company's legendary Clydesdale horses are just the latest victors in what's been a string of big Labor wins across the country.

They'll now vote to ratify that contract.