Posted on 05/29/2007 2:07:19 PM PDT by buzzyboop
POTTSVILLE, Pa. -- Dick Yuengling Jr., fifth-generation owner of the brewery that bears his name, called his employees together a few weeks before their labor contract was set to expire to talk about the future of the business.
"Read between the lines," he told them at one point, according to government documents on the management-union feud that followed.
Depending upon whom you ask, Mr. Yuengling's speech was either a pep talk to urge employees to work harder or an ultimatum to dump the Teamsters union, which is what they did.
The union has been trying to strike back, urging a boycott of the 178-year-old brewery's product. The company says the effort has fallen flat -- with "absolutely zero feedback" from the marketplace, according to Chief Operating Officer David Casinelli.
Now, the Teamsters say they are going to try to get state lawmakers to intervene in what they say has been an unfair fight.
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You're thinking of Rolling Rock.
I used to be a Unionized employee, and what you say is 100% correct.
Dang. Guess I'm not keeping up with the spread.
Me too! And I don't even drink!
You can find Lord Chesterfield in any good Beer Distributor in the Bucks County area. I’m here in Chester County and I see it all the time. I prefer the lagar myself...
Spring and Fall in PA; nowhere better.
NO2
That’s usually indicative of a distribution problem, not a problem at the brewery itself.
Yeungling makes a great beer.... and if they are paying $20 an hour plus full medical to their employees in a podunk place like Pottsville, they are treating their employees really damned well. Union obviously was bringing nothing of benefit to the table, otherwise they wouldn’t have been decertified.
I’ll keep drinking Yeungling, and hopefully it will get more than regional, its a truly great product.
Patio table was covered with these yesterday! Cheap, but definitely better than Bud, Miller, Coors, etc.
One of my “top five” favorite domestics. I like the ‘black and tan’ too.
I’ll be filling the garage fridge with a couple cases of their brew this weekend...
I believe their brewery in Tampa is leased from AnheiserBush. It’s right across the street from UCF.
Funny thing is its right on the same road as Busch Gardens must be the water.
The steel processing facility where I worked ran 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Except when the Chicago Bulls were on TV (this was during the Michael Jordan era).
Now I have yet another reason to like the already great beer!
So a business owner can’t tell his workers that the union’s costing too much money and if you don’t dump it I’ll go out of business?
I wonder how much money the union *is* losing due to being kicked out of Yuengling?
I’ve never once had a skunky Yeungling... but I live in Pittsburgh, just across the state from the brewery. Usually Skunky means the bottle was sitting somewhere too long, not that it was bad at the brewery.
Bad rotation at the distributor, or the bar most likely.
LOL! Pace yourself, Jag. :)
Bruce B. Downs Blvd.
I’ve never had it before moving to FL a few years ago. The fact that I found a great beer almost offsets the horror of my outrageous property tax bill...but, not quite.
I've never seen it for sale in Ohio either even though we border PA. I wish I could buy it here, it's a great beer.
ping. Yuengling brewery sez no to unions.
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