Teamsters truck drivers and other workers are at odds with James Cohen’s Hudson News magazine wholesale operation — and the contract squabble has gone all the way to the NJ Department of Labor.

After the last Teamsters contract expired at the end of 2018, the Teamsters Local 707 and the company sat down to begin negotiating a new two-year deal covering 2019 and 2020.

The workers thought they had a deal, and in August approved a new contract that had no pay hike and froze severance benefits at the 2018 level. But the company then balked at signing the new contract, preventing it from taking effect.

New Jersey’s Labor Department and Cohen had not returned calls by press time.