Posted on 06/23/2008 4:24:53 PM PDT by Dr. Marten
Union leaders representing InBev workers in Brazil, Canada and Europe have a simple message for Anheuser-Busch employees if InBev takes control of the St. Louis-based brewery:
Watch out.
"They should worry, because the production is going to be concentrated and the work force reduced," says Siderlei Oliveira, president of Brazil's 1.2 million-member food workers union, citing a reduction in Brazil's brewery workers to 13,000 from 23,000 since the 1990s. "This is the strategy that they have."
In Canada, labor-management relations are "starting to thaw after a significant period of turmoil" marked by years of strikes, lockouts, changes in work rules, layoffs and plant closings, says Cam Nelson, president of the local service employees union representing workers at an InBev Labatt plant in Quebec province.
(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...
Do the opposite of what the unions want.
Did everyone freak out when Sab bought Miller? I can’t remember
I hope Budweiser sells out.
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