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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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.
I knew about Rock. Is Ying the one where the daughter has taken on the marketing duties?
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.
....our favorite beer, and it will remain so.
Which explains why it is all over the coastal GA, SC, and NC areas.
Not likely, except for ales. Carbonate water (the majority of FL) has to be softened for decent lager beer.
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/
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.
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.
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.
Proud that they’re in my neck of the woods.
I never even heard of Yuengling before, but I’ll be looking for it my next trip to the store.
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.
Pennsylvania! The Teamsters may win.
Spec’s doesn’t sell it.
And you know what that means . . . if Spec’s doesn’t sell it, I don’t need it.
The fact that it was brewed in America got me to taste it, the taste got me to drink it. The rest is history.
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.”
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