Sept 30 (Reuters) - Teamsters has reached a tentative

agreement with car-rental firm Hertz Global ( HTZ ), 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.