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‘There won’t be any beer come March’: US Anheuser-Busch workers threaten strike
The Guardian (UK) ^
| 17 Jan 2024
| Michael Sainato
Posted on 01/17/2024 7:29:48 AM PST by Salman
Workers who make Bud Light and other top-selling beers are threatening to strike in demand of significant wage increases, job security and improvements to retirement and benefits in the first big union contract battle of 2024.
Five thousand workers, represented by the Teamsters at 12 Anheuser-Busch breweries in the US, are threatening to strike after voting 99% in favor of a strike authorization last month. Their current union contract is set to expire on 29 February.
“Without a contract by February 29, there won’t be any beer come March,” the Teamsters warned on X.
The contract fight is the first at Anheuser-Busch with the Teamsters president, Sean O’Brien, at the helm of the union. Elected in 2022, O’Brien led the union in securing record contract gain at UPS last year amid threats of a massive strike.
“If Anheuser-Busch’s executives can’t get their act together to negotiate an agreement that respects workers, we will see them out on the streets,” O’Brien said in a statement on the strike vote. According to the Teamsters, the union hasn’t met with Anheuser-Busch since 16 November, when the company refused to negotiate on job security.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bankruptbudlight; budlight; strike; unions
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More blues for Bud Light.
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posted on
01/17/2024 7:29:48 AM PST
by
Salman
To: Salman
There will be plenty beer.....just not AB
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posted on
01/17/2024 7:31:27 AM PST
by
V_TWIN
(America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
To: Salman
LOL, great time to strike. bahahahahahaha
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posted on
01/17/2024 7:31:28 AM PST
by
mykroar
("It's Not the Nature of the Evidence; It's the Seriousness of the Charge." - El Rushbo)
To: Salman
In Heaven there is no beer
That’s why we drink it here.
And when we’re gone from here
Our friends will be drinking all the beer.
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posted on
01/17/2024 7:31:51 AM PST
by
Fido969
To: Salman
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posted on
01/17/2024 7:32:11 AM PST
by
bgill
To: Salman
I hate beer and never drink it
To: Salman
Just what Budweiser DIDN’T NEED. Their workers throwing a tantrum.
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posted on
01/17/2024 7:32:46 AM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Democrats never backstab each other the way the sorry Republicans do. There is no GOP.)
To: Salman
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posted on
01/17/2024 7:33:14 AM PST
by
EEGator
To: Salman
Who’d miss it....it’s all piss water.
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posted on
01/17/2024 7:35:03 AM PST
by
RasterMaster
("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
To: Salman
No budweiser or bud light. Oh noez! The horror! /s
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posted on
01/17/2024 7:35:21 AM PST
by
z3n
(Kakistocracy)
To: Salman
I would say this benefits family owned, non-union brewers.
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posted on
01/17/2024 7:36:11 AM PST
by
FLNittany
(Autotune is jealous of Karen Carpenter)
To: Salman
I fail to see how a “strike” at the Anheuser-Busch factory would have any effect on the supply of beer.
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posted on
01/17/2024 7:36:16 AM PST
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: Salman
I don’t think the people who make my craft brews are represented by the Teamsters.
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posted on
01/17/2024 7:36:25 AM PST
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
To: V_TWIN
Microbreweries will just fill in the hole. I think that would be great - I don’t have to see Bud Light advertised anymore.
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posted on
01/17/2024 7:36:46 AM PST
by
ProudDeplorable
(Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ~ Ronald Reagan)
To: Salman
“If Anheuser-Busch’s executives can’t get their act together to negotiate an agreement that respects workers, we will see them out on the streets,” Strike and if they won't bend, get jobs at better companies.
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posted on
01/17/2024 7:37:13 AM PST
by
GOPJ
(FoxNews Lawrence Jones needs to visit Black, Hispanic and Asian breakfast places too.Let's get real)
To: Salman
ANOTHER STELLAR EXAMPLE OF THE MINDSET OF UNIONS.
To: butlerweave
I enjoyed it a little too much. Figured I have had a bit more than my fair share, so I haven’t touched a drop in 5+ years. And truthfully? I don’t miss it at all.
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posted on
01/17/2024 7:38:24 AM PST
by
Hatteras
To: V_TWIN
There will be plenty beer.....just not AB
Exactly. My personal favourite beer will still be on the shelves regardless of what happens at an AB brewery. I think that the same can be said for a lot of people. People will find alternatives in a competitive market.
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posted on
01/17/2024 7:39:17 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: EEGator
“Budweiser, the King of Beers.”
The King is dead.
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posted on
01/17/2024 7:39:33 AM PST
by
drSteve78
(Je suis Deplorable. Even more so)
To: RasterMaster
Sometimes used in cooking shrimp or crabs. 😊
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posted on
01/17/2024 7:40:41 AM PST
by
drSteve78
(Je suis Deplorable. Even more so)
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