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To: rarestia

Look up Boston Beer Co., not Sam Adams.

Cincinnati brewery has at least 80 employees represented by collective bargaining, from three different unions.

Also, if anyone is going to go on a full on Anti-union boycott make sure you check to see if the teamsters are the distribution workers, which they probably are...

And stop buying anything delivered by UPS or FedEx.
Postal service is clearly verboten as well, so mail order is just about off the table from any source.

Don’t watch tv... lots of union labor making that happen.

I’m assuming a Hyundai or Kia is in the garage...

Oh, and they will likely need to start walking, just make sure there’s no rubber on the soles of the shoes, the petroleum industry, world wide, is filled with unions from drillers to refiners to long shoremen to teamsters...

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I’m not a huge fan of unions. They have morphed from their useful place in the market to largely political organizations.

However, when people want to make big bold statements about not spending any of their hard earned money to support those evil union miscreants, I am left to believe that it is mostly grandstanding.

Anyone has the right to choose the companies and people with whom they will do business, and each may choose the reasons they will use in making those decisions. Avoiding unions is a choice one is free to make. I simply suggest those ranting loudly about such choices take a good hard look at the world around them...
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If you like beer, pick the beer you like best, and enjoy. Keep life simple. I suggest we save the anger angst and activism for bigger issues.

/rant


40 posted on 01/31/2015 7:10:23 AM PST by BlueNgold (Have we crossed the line from Govt. in righteous fear of the People - to a People in fear of Govt??)
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To: BlueNgold

Agreed, most posters here are simply, “Posers” and just like to talk real loud but they send their kids to public schools, buy union food, wear union clothes and so on. Without unions the majority would wither away and die but they will never admit it. I can sympathize with them though since they were raised in families that were non union and brainwashed from a young age to hate something they still no very little about.


44 posted on 01/31/2015 7:23:25 AM PST by Plumberman27
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To: BlueNgold

Sheesh. All I did was stand up for Sam Adams and Yuengling. I didn’t coming for the upbraiding.


55 posted on 01/31/2015 11:37:44 AM PST by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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