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Teamsters foaming over ejection at Yuengling (new favorite brew alert!)
Associated Press ^ | May 29, 2007 | Michael Rubinkam

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: beer; pottsville; teamsters; union; unionthugs; yuengling
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To: alice_in_bubbaland
"Their quality control has to improve though, he has to sniff each opened beer because he occasionally gets a “skunk”."

Thats the classic sign of a beer thats not a top seller and the store holding onto it too long.

If I stop at a place where I don't know what sells well, I'll stick with the known brands because they'll always rotate (move) stock pretty quick.

41 posted on 05/29/2007 2:29:15 PM PDT by libs_kma (Monica blew while Al-Queda grew.....Oh well, Clinton happens!)
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To: dirtboy

I knew about Rock. Is Ying the one where the daughter has taken on the marketing duties?


42 posted on 05/29/2007 2:30:46 PM PDT by doodad
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To: Agent Smith
Hmmm, I was told it wasn't that great of a beer.

But I use to like Genny Cream, Narragansett Porter, ... oh, and Schiltz, way back when, before they changed the recipe.

I must have had Yuengling, but it doesn't stand out one way or the other in my memory.

Now I got a hankering for a Brador. But I'll settle for the O'Douls Dark I have in fridge when I get home.

43 posted on 05/29/2007 2:31:12 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: buzzyboop

....our favorite beer, and it will remain so.


44 posted on 05/29/2007 2:31:50 PM PDT by Banjoguy (Don't buy Chinese.....you can do it!)
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To: buzzyboop
I can pretty much guarantee that the people in the Pottsville area could care less what some Union Members from Philly think or say.
45 posted on 05/29/2007 2:33:06 PM PDT by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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To: Ron in Acreage

Which explains why it is all over the coastal GA, SC, and NC areas.


46 posted on 05/29/2007 2:33:38 PM PDT by doodad
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To: scottteng

Not likely, except for ales. Carbonate water (the majority of FL) has to be softened for decent lager beer.


47 posted on 05/29/2007 2:36:44 PM PDT by doodad
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To: doodad

Usually we only get the Traditional Lager and Black and Tan. I’d love to get the Lord Chesterfield Ale. The hoppier the better.
http://www.yuengling.com/


48 posted on 05/29/2007 2:37:13 PM PDT by Ron in Acreage (FRED/ROMNEY 08-The Winning Ticket)
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To: libs_kma
Around here, Yuengling sells well. BTW, Hubby just walked in from work, with a six of Yueng!
49 posted on 05/29/2007 2:37:36 PM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (I will respect illegal aliens civil rights, when they respect the sovereignty of the US!)
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To: buzzyboop
The union killed Jones brewery in Smithton PA. about 10 years ago or so. I sure miss esquire “Nips.”
50 posted on 05/29/2007 2:40:21 PM PDT by 4yearlurker (Liberals, A terrorists best friend!)
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To: buzzyboop

God Bless My home town. I like to tell people the room in which I was born, had a window looking out over the brewery.

Steel workers tried for a long time to get into Cressona Aluminum(a couple miles down the road from Pottsville) when that was independent as well. It has since been bought out by Alumax and then by Alcoa. All the employees I know that still work there tell me how much worse the place is once it was bought by the other companies and went Union.


51 posted on 05/29/2007 2:44:41 PM PDT by SengirV
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To: VeniVidiVici
I wonder how much money the union *is* losing due to being kicked out of Yuengling?

They probably ain't losing much money, there was probably so few union members that the Teamster didn't make money off of them. The union at the shop I work at has the teamsters. Their is hardly any members any more, so few that the teamster business manager assigned to the factory hardly ever stops by, maybe a couple times a year and that is for basically recruiting, since the company hasn't been hiring in the last year or so I don't think I've seen him only once in the last year or so.

52 posted on 05/29/2007 2:46:24 PM PDT by ReformedBeckite
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To: doodad

THEY are the ones who have been doing the buying. Last I heard, they were like the #4 or #5 beer distributor/seller/whatever in the US now.


53 posted on 05/29/2007 2:47:56 PM PDT by SengirV
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To: buzzyboop

Proud that they’re in my neck of the woods.


54 posted on 05/29/2007 2:51:13 PM PDT by stevio ((NRA))
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To: buzzyboop

I never even heard of Yuengling before, but I’ll be looking for it my next trip to the store.


55 posted on 05/29/2007 2:53:17 PM PDT by BuffaloJack
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To: trimom
Hubby worked there summers while in college.

I had a few friends at college that worked summers at Yuengling. Seemed like a great place, with everyone all the way to the top on a first name basis.

Being about midway between Pottsville and Latrobe, well, that was about heaven for domestic beer. Yuengling was $4.80 for a case of pints back then. An occasional case of Lord Chesterfield and I recall they ran a porter. Alas, neither every made it west of the Rockies in good condition. Both (shed a tear for "33") far superior to the revolting Curs.

56 posted on 05/29/2007 2:53:38 PM PDT by kitchen (Over gunned? Hell, that's better than the alternative!)
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To: buzzyboop

Pennsylvania! The Teamsters may win.


57 posted on 05/29/2007 2:54:28 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: lormand

Spec’s doesn’t sell it.

And you know what that means . . . if Spec’s doesn’t sell it, I don’t need it.


58 posted on 05/29/2007 2:55:10 PM PDT by Xenalyte (You have to defile a mummy completely, or they come back to life. You know that.)
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To: buzzyboop
Funny thing, for years after hearing the name of the beer I thought it was made in China so I never drank it. About a year ago someone from PA set me straight. Yuengling(Pronounced YingLing), means young man in german and has been brewed in PA for almost two centuries. From that day on it's been about the only brewski I drink.

The fact that it was brewed in America got me to taste it, the taste got me to drink it. The rest is history.

59 posted on 05/29/2007 2:55:47 PM PDT by Post-Neolithic (Money only makes Communists rich Communists)
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To: Calvin Locke

You drank Nasty Gansett and lived to tell?

You are brave!

I bet you’ve even drunk Black Lab . . . I used to date an upstate New Yorker who told me that sixers of Labs are referred to as “kennels.”


60 posted on 05/29/2007 2:57:00 PM PDT by Xenalyte (You have to defile a mummy completely, or they come back to life. You know that.)
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