Posted on 02/01/2024 7:59:38 AM PST by Salman
(WASHINGTON) — Today, Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien demanded Anheuser-Busch deliver its last, best, and final offer, after the company wasted another negotiating session putting forth an unacceptable proposal that threatens to kill Teamster jobs by closing breweries and permanently laying off Teamsters systemwide.
After refusing to commit to protecting Teamster jobs since mid-November, Anheuser-Busch executives returned to the bargaining table this week with an offer to butcher the good-paying jobs behind its products. If the company does not reverse course and come to terms on an agreement that rewards and protects workers, 5,000 Teamsters will be forced to go on strike as soon as March 1.
“The halting of beer production at Anheuser-Busch’s U.S. breweries appears imminent and unavoidable,” O’Brien said. “This company has got to get its priorities straight. With its actions during negotiations this week, Anheuser-Busch made clear it is hellbent on destroying American jobs. They can throw billions of dollars at Super Bowl ads and Wall Street, but they can’t seem to bargain a contract that respects the Teamsters who do the real work inside these breweries. They have a harsh reality awaiting them when Anheuser-Busch breweries are empty, and Teamsters are on the streets.”
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Don’t like your pay and benefits? Go find a better job.
Freeper Chad C. Mulligan reply 5:
I served a 15 year sentence with a Tier One supplier to GM Powertrain. Left me with an implacable hatred for the UAW and also GM’s middle management.
The GM’s engineers should all get Nobel Prizes for putting out as good a product as they did, obstructed as much as they were by the UAW. (Which they claimed actually stood for United Against Work.)
The companies rarely disappear completely as they usually get subsumed into another corporation.
Brands, on the other hand, do disappear and the troons at InBev / Transheuser Busch would have been wise to look at what happened to Zima. (through no fault of Zima)
AB makes... well, beer, sort of.
Teamsters drive trucks.
Other people drive trucks as well.
How does Teamsters not driving for AB stop them from making and distributing... well, beer, sort of?
“billions on super bowl ads” is hyperbole.
I worked in a Whirlpool factory one summer after high school.
Union workers were lazy theives and druggies.
They would sabotage the line to force paid overtime, run and hide when the call came, then file grievance to get paid for nothing.
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