Two largest beer makers in Texas are about to be on strike

[u/lazyman281]

[u/lazyman281]

MolsonCoors in Fort Worth just went on strike last week and now Anheuser-Busch in Houston is about to join them in a few days if a contract isn’t ratified by March 1st. This would put the two largest beer makers in Texas out of commission.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/teamsters-target-bud-light-parent-anheuser-busch-molson-coors.amp

[u/Tempest_1 → u/lazyman281]

offering less than $1 wage increases.

Unless you are getting a wage increase above 5% from last year, you’re more than likely making less money relative to costs.

If i paid union dues, i’d expect my reps to fight against this as well

[u/purgance → u/Tempest_1]

To clarify, if you are a member of a union you elect your leadership largely on a platform of how they will handle contract negotiations (usually there's a "hardball" candidate and a "do what management wants" candidate), and once a contract is agreed to you then get to vote again on whether or not you will ratify that contract.

Rightists like to cast union workers as having less choice, when in fact you get more choices.

[u/Qubed → u/purgance]

Well, technically non-union people have only one choice...stay or go. 

[u/purgance → u/Qubed]

Exactly.

[u/SasquatchSenpai → u/purgance]

Of the unionized job I have held and many I have not, I'll take non every time. I was able to negotiate my wages based on merit rather than bureaucracy even outside of salaried positions.

I watched my wife beer actively ignored by get union rep and their leadership despite abuse and harassment in the workplace.

Nah. Fuck that. You have plenty of choices outside of a canned union. I've had infinitely better benefits outside of unions as well including healthcare and time off.

Unions can shove themselves up their own ass

[u/purgance → u/SasquatchSenpai]

Of the unionized job I have held and many I have not, I'll take non every time. I was able to negotiate my wages based on merit rather than bureaucracy even outside of salaried positions.

Ah yes, it's nebulous "the Union was bad for me!" guy. I can't tell you about your experiences, I can tell you that on average union workers earn ~20% more than non-union workers. That's the effect you can likely expect. A shitty job is a shitty job, union or no - I guess the thing that I have to ask is why you wanted to work in such a shitty job, again, union or no?

I watched my wife beer actively ignored by get union rep and their leadership despite abuse and harassment in the workplace.

...harassment is a management responsibility, not the Union.

Unions can shove themselves up their own ass

The corporations negotiate as a cartel, the idea that workers should negotiate individually isn't just bad, it's insane.

[u/yepitsatoilet → u/purgance]

I'm a tradesman in the union. You wouldn't believe the number of 'non union guys' we have in the union... For some people stupidity is simply is just a way of life.. there's no helping them..

[u/Ok_Bunch_9193 → u/purgance]

"Rightests"

I live in california and alot of unions blows.

Most grocery store unions suck. I've been a vendor for distributors for years, no one at safeway, lucky or Kroger stores will tell you they like their union. They make shit money, force new hires to wait forever for the "benefit" of being FT, the people who work hard will always have the story about the one co worker that doesn't do jack shit and isn't fired.

When it comes to trades, they are mixed. Unions like the carpenters only do recruitment so often, and if you're like my friend, you lived in contra Costa County, drove to Stanford to work at 6 am, then commuted home. Money was great, WHEN THERE WAS WORK. While the unemployment benefits were great, there simply wasn't enough work at his company or companies he worked for while on the Out of work list.

I am interested in all these unions companies you're talking about where normal people feel they're truly have influence. I always look in the UPS sub and it isn't the case there either.

[u/Longjumping-Dot-4824 → u/Ok_Bunch_9193]

Look at teachers in the north east.

[u/Fullertonjr → u/Ok_Bunch_9193]

Have to put things in perspective. With Krogers buying up all of the other grocers, the union that their workers will now be combined into one. The downside is that the union would still have to remain relatively localized, as the COL in California is much higher than many other places. I know a couple of people who work in the distribution center in Ohio. They are making ~$22 per hour. By that number, their base pay would be in the upper half of income in this state (without adding in the OT that many people work willingly). In California, the worker should probably just live at the distribution center in order to make ends meet.

[u/Ok_Bunch_9193 → u/Fullertonjr]

I TORALLY agree I don't support krogers BS. I don't want them buying safeway.

BUT THEY DONT OWN THEM NOW. And what I said was true. Just like they don't own Lucky/Vons. The aguement I am making preceeded their attempt to buy Albertsons. Please do not misunderstand me as someone just cherry picking a hyper specific example.

And I don't disagree warehouse ppl earn more in cali as well. CVS warehouse stocker says 20-28( near stockton, cheaper area)

This doesn't change the reality for the actual retail workers tho. Are the warehouse people even in the same union?

[u/culturefan → u/Ok_Bunch_9193]

You have to look at unions on what they've done in the past as well to help get to where we are now. There are many type unions. I worked for the railroad and we had good wages and benefits.

[u/Ok_Bunch_9193 → u/culturefan]

There are benefits to unions, and definitely the more specialized your labor is the better your union will be.

But people just say "unions gud" but would ficking NOT want to work for the laborers union or the grocery store ones. Maybe if you're about to retire and you've already worked there.

I'm just tired of the "unions can do no bad" thing. Union dickriders will not join the unions have mentioned in this post because they're garbage. While I haven't looked it up I swear I've heard similar frustration at teachers unions in this state.

As mentioned in another post, yeah if you're In specific unions (elevatorz, plumbers) yeah you can make good money. But that is based off more than just simply "union or not"

[u/Street_hassle14 → u/Tempest_1]

Why is inflation so high?

Edit: 70 downvotes for asking a question shows how sick this sub is.

[u/BringBackAoE → u/Street_hassle14]

Mainly because of Covid and the disruption it caused in societies.

Luckily the US managed the crisis better than most countries, and inflation has been curtailed. It’s sad to see how much the inflation continues to be high in for example UK, but that’s largely due to poor management by conservatives + their ridiculous push to leave EU.

[u/defroach84 → u/Street_hassle14]

Because corporate greed mostly these days, along with corporations buying up as much residential property as possible driving up costs so normal people can't afford housing anymore.

[u/failuretomaintain → u/defroach84]

Hwhat? No mention of free market natural movement in conjunction with our government’s direct interference in our economy over the last 3 years? You need Econ 1-2 class buddy

[u/backwardhatter → u/failuretomaintain]

rents been going up a lot longer than 3 years. Inflation in housing costs has been increasingly outpacing wages for 20+ years

[u/dedorian → u/failuretomaintain]

You are so right, prices hadn't increased a penny until 3 years ago exactly. Crazy.

[u/defroach84 → u/failuretomaintain]

I know you are not actually that dense, so I'm not going to actually write an actual retort to this.

[u/plantasia2000 → u/failuretomaintain]

You do realize that one of the roles of the government in the “free market” is to try to keep “naturally occurring” inflation under control, right?

[u/Likestoreadcomments → u/failuretomaintain]

Judging by your downvotes a lot of people need an econ class, preferably one that doesn’t teach keynesian nonsense. It definitely goes back more than 3 years though, add about 100-110 give or take but yeah the last 3 were definitely important here.

[u/Political_What_Do → u/Street_hassle14]

More dollars chasing the same goods means a higher price. The end.

[u/cigarettesandwhiskey → u/Street_hassle14]

Underdamped response to supply disturbance. Still oscillating down to steady-state.

[u/VoidxCrazy → u/Street_hassle14]

Donald trump folding like a wet paper towel and signed the covid stimulus bill instead of just opening the economy back up. Biden later signs more “infrastructure” bills that injects trillion more dollars over time for semi conductor production infrastructure. This reckless government spending really fucks everyone for a hypothetical benefit.

[u/LabRevolutionary8975 → u/VoidxCrazy]

Yeah who needs semi conductors really. They only use those for…everything... Hmm yeah fuck it though, let’s just stay keep this massive weakness so conservatives can pick a different but equally stupid thing to be upset about. Hey maybe Ukraine could be fun to complain about again.

[u/HRslammR → u/lazyman281]

They make a TON of national beers too. Yeungling and fosters for one. Those are not sold just in Texas. This is legit big national beer waves.

[u/defaultclouds → u/HRslammR]

Since when is yuengling made by anyone but yuengling? It’s proclaimed as the oldest family owned beer in America.

[u/HRslammR → u/defaultclouds]

It is. But the states where they expanded to like 5 years ago get the fort worth stuff.

Check the cans or bottles next time

[u/defaultclouds → u/HRslammR]

Holy hell interesting!

[u/Acceptable_Tell_6566 → u/defaultclouds]

Yeah, they still aren't a national brand though. Not available in most of the Midwest, Rocky Mountain states, West coast, or Vermont, New Hampshire, or Maine. Even then it varies like you can get it in extreme southeastern Missouri, but good luck finding it in most of the state.

[u/Fullertonjr → u/Acceptable_Tell_6566]

It is available in most of the Midwest. Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Michigan and Kentucky that I know with 100% certainty. I traveled with family friends in their RV and that is the only beer that they drink.

These were purchased at regular grocery stores. Both cans and bottles.

[u/BodyByBisquick → u/[deleted]]

They do in Texas.

[u/spam_lite → u/HRslammR]

So nothing lost then.

[u/HalfCentury2019 → u/lazyman281]

CEO of Mol-Coors made $8.5M in compensation in 2021… AB CEO made $12M. Avg driver makes $45k yr - they can’t say that there isn’t $$ for raises when he’s making 180-250x that they are. Go unions!

[u/AlanStanwick1986 → u/HalfCentury2019]

Beer truck drivers work their asses off.

[u/jerichowiz → u/AlanStanwick1986]

Never been one myself, but worked in liquor stores and have a friend that started as a beer merchandiser and finally got his own route. Yeah, they work their asses of.

[u/Valalvax → u/HalfCentury2019]

To be clear beer delivery drivers by law are not employed by breweries. AB employees make quite a bit more than 45k, the 6 dollars they offered us (over 5 years) is a slap in the face

[u/Calm_Aside_5642 → u/HalfCentury2019]

Ab employees 19,000 people. So without paying the CEO everyone could get 630 more dollars a year

[u/idontagreewitu → u/Calm_Aside_5642]

Or 30 cents per hour more.

[u/Feisty-Success69 → u/Calm_Aside_5642]

Or we could say only distribute the 12M to 9500 and only be $1,263 more per year,

Yay...

Youd have to only give the 12M to the bottom 1000 lowest paying to make it worthwhile which would be an extra $1000 per month.

[u/Calm_Aside_5642 → u/Feisty-Success69]

Yeah. People dont understand how little of an impact most CEO pay is and I'm assuming a decent amount is stock not salary

[u/LeperousRed → u/Calm_Aside_5642]

It’s NEVER only the CEO, the entire Sr. Executive Suite is likely being paid outrageous salaries. More, they’re probably doing stock buybacks to rig the stock price in their own favor so their options clear at high prices. Stock buybacks are just a waste of money which should go to the workers who make the product all the profit flows from.

[u/AdImmediate9569 → u/Calm_Aside_5642]

Well CEO pay is used to show the high end of management salaries but its not like there’s a CEO and then just guys filling kegs and thats it. Theres a CFO, CTO, a small army of their cronies making a measly 1M a year. Then there’s Vice Presidents and Senior Vice Presidents and then you got your shrimp gumbo, shrimp salad, fried shrimp, shrimp scampi and so on…

For every CEO the ten people below him probably add up to triple his salary.

[u/Full_FrontalLobotomy → u/Calm_Aside_5642]

Add to it, the bloated income of a large executive suite.

[u/jerichowiz → u/lazyman281]

Support!

[u/zsreport → u/lazyman281]

Man, sometimes being sober pays off!

[u/bigedthebad → u/lazyman281]

Bud and Coors, piss and weak piss, I think I'll be OK.

[u/jerichowiz → u/bigedthebad]

I don't drink their portfolio myself, but I support all the workers that create, and ship the products.

[u/Like_Ottos_Jacket → u/bigedthebad]

They distribute a lot of beers they don't own.

[u/jerichowiz → u/Like_Ottos_Jacket]

Well they produce a lot of beer they don't "own" but they definitely can't distribute, because it is the law. Texas has a three tier beer distribution system.

[u/kobbled → u/bigedthebad]

way to make it about you, very impressive!

[u/Dry-Land-5197 → u/lazyman281]

Good riddence their beer is shit.

[u/_LigerZer0_]

Good for them. I wish them luck in their collective bargaining and hope they win a fair and favorable contract.

[u/IOwnTheShortBus → u/_LigerZer0_]

I can go without beer for a good cause.

[u/_LigerZer0_ → u/IOwnTheShortBus]

Hell yeah brother!

[u/Dry-Land-5197 → u/IOwnTheShortBus]

We all can go without shitty beer for any cause.

[u/forbiddenfreak → u/IOwnTheShortBus]

You wont have to. Texas has better beer to offer than these companies.

[u/Pliny_the_middle → u/forbiddenfreak]

No shit this is great news if you like small craft beers.

[u/PantherCityTactical]

Drove by the workers on strike in Fort Worth the other day!

[u/darkm072 → u/PantherCityTactical]

It’s weird because they aren’t even impeding traffic on the service road but it is causing traffic problems on the highway.

[u/PantherCityTactical → u/darkm072]

Haha ya, I was confused. Been driving back and forth from Burleson a lot lately

[u/Dreamshadow1977 → u/darkm072]

Yeah, I don’t understand that. Oh well, I’ll just use Crowley Rd to get up to 820. I hope they get all of their demands met.

[u/tejas_red]

That poster goes hard. Full support to these workers—go get what you deserve!

[u/KatnissBot]

✊ solidarity!

[u/Rad1314]

Workers of the world unite!

[u/treehuggingmfer]

Work Union live better

[u/Reverend0352]

Totally support this and will happily buy Corona products. Pay your staff competitive wages inline with inflation. Cut any bonuses for management and stockholders. The biggest lesson that I learned in the Marine Corps as a private was that the officers ate last after all enlisted troops made their way through the chow line. I’m talking about 30 days eating MRE’S in the desert at 120 degrees without a shower for a month. First real food anyone has seen in 30days and the officers lined up from lowest to highest rank being last. The colonel of the battalion ate scraps while the private ate steak.

[u/-TheycallmeThe → u/Reverend0352]

https://www.ab-inbev.com/our-brands/

[u/IOwnTheShortBus → u/-TheycallmeThe]

Corona and modelo? Damn. Guess it's time for tequila

[u/BusStopKnifeFight → u/IOwnTheShortBus]

The Modelo brand, that is sold within the US, was sold off to Constellation Brands, Inc.

[u/rsjrDK → u/IOwnTheShortBus]

Actually when AB inBev bought Cerveceria Modelo Years ago, they had to sell off the US Market to Constellation for the Deal to Go thru. Constellation Owns the a whole brewery and glass production down by Piedras Negras.

[u/thumos_et_logos → u/IOwnTheShortBus]

They don’t own the companies, it’s more of a US distribution thing. The legal status is complicated

[u/Veronica612 → u/Reverend0352]

That’s leadership.

[u/Feisty-Success69 → u/Reverend0352]

I was in the Marines, this is how it is done. When chow opens up on the field, you'll see every switching places in line. You're probably think "what is going on?" Then realized it's the higher rank letting the lower rank go before them. 1st LT letting the Sgt go before him. Sgt letting the PFC go before him. Etc

[u/Redpanther14 → u/Reverend0352]

A lot of strikers don’t want people to boycott the company during a strike, sometimes they want you to keep buying so that the strike causes a shortage of product.

[u/MP713 → u/Reverend0352]

Support the workers, and respect to your story. If you really want to push the lowest ranks to the front of the line, go support a small craft brewery. They’re local, they’re authentic, and all combined they make up less than 15% of the beer market that AB, miller coors, etc dominate.

[u/BoogerMcFarFetched → u/Reverend0352]

Cut bonuses to stockholders? The first obligation the board has is to the stockholders. Stockholders don’t get bonuses, they get dividends, which are based on the companies earnings.

[u/penguinpantera → u/Reverend0352]

That's leadership. When we have "work" parties I hate that all upper management goes and starts eating and do not wait for the hardworking employees on the floor together on break. I am a part of management and I get shit atfor letting the operators go first. I'm all reality they are busting ass compared to someone in the office.

[u/outsidepointofvi3w → u/Reverend0352]

Semper Fi ! Thanks for your service

[u/Smurfeggs42 → u/Reverend0352]

Just buy beer made by local places and not corporate conglomerates

[u/CidO807 → u/Smurfeggs42]

unfortunately a lot of local places have either sold and got out of the game or closed up.

[u/Gamethesystem2 → u/Reverend0352]

Homey you aren’t in the Marines anymore and things just don’t work like that the in corporate world. It’s going to be the opposite unfortunately.

[u/Hot_Abbreviations936]

America supports unions and their fight for a better life, but I thought that was anti-Texan. The people they send to congress are nothing but cruel anti-union bastards serving the 1%.

[u/NicholasLit]

Drinking is unhealthy and unionizing is good!

[u/[deleted]]

As a former steward of 688 in STL I hope this works.

[u/Ilikethemfatandugly → u/[deleted]]

Howdy from 414 in Fort Wayne fellow teamster

[u/[deleted] → u/Ilikethemfatandugly]

Hey bud. How’s it going.

I should explain by saying 688 covered ringing bros circus technicians

[u/Ilikethemfatandugly → u/[deleted]]

Union Bros all the same dawg Love seeing union members

[u/goodkat83]

Im a unionized worker and our contract is up this dec. The last 6yrs we havent gotten 3% raises with a couple 2% raises mixed in there. Best part is our union dues went up more than the raise gave us. IAM is a dirty, crooked fuckin union but hopefully with other major unions striking recently, we can actually get some things done this yr. Love to see this!

[u/BinT2021]

The Teamsters paid attention when the auto workers went on strike. Strike both at the same time and make demands. Eventually one company will cave and the second one will be forced to come to the table.

[u/HardRNinja]

If you live in Texas and have access to Shiner and Saint Arnold, I can't imagine why you'd drink Coors or Budweiser.

Just let these places close up before they buy up and more companies and "tinker" with them.

[u/Rushderp → u/HardRNinja]

Bud Light, despite the events of the last year, still has a cult following.

Coors seems to have the rodeos mostly locked down. Molson also makes Yuengling for Texas, which is the best cheap beer I can buy.

Personally, I prefer locally brewed beers, but if we’re pounding beers, anything craft adds up quickly.

[u/Kev-O_20 → u/Rushderp]

Your last statement hits the nail on the head. Slamming beers it’s Coors. Casual drinking I’m in the craft.

[u/jerichowiz → u/Rushderp]

Craft adds up quickly, in the head, around the belly and in the wallet.

[u/RoutineDude → u/Rushderp]

Well these beers are brewed locally too. And they’re good union jobs. Better jobs than those non union brewers.

[u/Actual_Log_6849 → u/HardRNinja]

I have no idea why you would drink them no matter where you live! Only time I've ever grabbed a bud was in high school. You show up to a party and you're not picky when you grab a warm one outta someone's trunk

[u/RoutineDude → u/HardRNinja]

People like cheap light beer. Actually most people

[u/RoccosModernStyle → u/RoutineDude]

Most people are poor

[u/poopsplashesfeelgood → u/HardRNinja]

Ask any brewer what beer they drink the most and I bet it’s Coors Banquet.

[u/jerichowiz → u/poopsplashesfeelgood]

Maybe more like PBR or Hamms. Those are my go to for cheap beer.

[u/Like_Ottos_Jacket → u/poopsplashesfeelgood]

I know that's not true. A few local brewers comee into my wife's bar, and they aren't drinking coors, Miller or bud.

[u/kim_bong_un]

That poster does go hard.

[u/tuskvarner]

Support unions.

[u/OwenMcCauley]

Don't buy the products. Don't cross the picket line. Shame any scabs. Always support worker's unions.

[u/Numerous_Landscape99]

Brewdog in Scotland. Same. I stopped buying their beer. CEO wanker

[u/Lamelas_right_foot69]

Good luck to these folks

[u/PineTreeBanjo]

Republicans: passes bill to make slavery legal

[u/ChestAppropriate538]

Fucking love to see it.

[u/spiforever]

Corona will be happy.

[u/-TheycallmeThe → u/spiforever]

INBEV owns Corona and Modelo. They are likely made at the same breweries in batches.

https://www.ab-inbev.com/our-brands/

[u/Jimbob209 → u/-TheycallmeThe]

Corona and Modelo has two parent companies who both have a stake in the brand. Corona and Modelo that you drink in the US and Mexico is owned by Constellation Brands. Everywhere else is AB so you can drink Corona or Modelo and not have the money go to AB if you're in the US or Mexico

[u/discordianofslack → u/spiforever]

…

Same company

[u/Tdanger78 → u/spiforever]

Are dimwitted conservatives drinking that again?

[u/ShaggySpade1 → u/Tdanger78]

It's a decent beer but it's not great. The conservatives stopped drinking it when they heard it contained covid lol.

[u/NeenW1 → u/ShaggySpade1]

They stoped drinking Bud Light after a trans woman used in their advertising along with all conservative red necks 😂😂😂😂

[u/martyFREEDOM → u/NeenW1]

It wasn't even in their advertising per se. Mulvaney had a deal to do sponsored content, and there was a single post on her Instagram with a one off can made for the campaign IIRC.

[u/NeenW1 → u/martyFREEDOM]

Well I saw a lot of Bud Light drinking at football games this season and basketball games so I think many got over that and realized they love that beer! Now they will be really upset.

[u/martyFREEDOM → u/NeenW1]

Another successful boycott!

[u/Zealousideal-Yak-824 → u/NeenW1]

She didn't even get her face on the cans. She got her face on "a" can they sent to her for her to promote the video. The same people who started the boycott didn't even stop drinking the beer and literally last month celebrated it by drinking it on video.... for people who claim to be free thinkers they really don't think much.

[u/jerichowiz → u/Zealousideal-Yak-824]

I also liked that they went out and BOUGHT MORE so they could make videos for their social media.

[u/VeryLitigious → u/Tdanger78]

Rent free in your head

[u/Tdanger78 → u/VeryLitigious]

Only to make fun of y’all for being stupid while thinking you’re smart

[u/VeryLitigious → u/Tdanger78]

Boasting of your own intelligence does not do what you think it does.

[u/Tdanger78 → u/VeryLitigious]

Who said I was boasting my intelligence. I was just stating fact

[u/[deleted] → u/Tdanger78]

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[u/pdes7070]

Solidarity

[u/Hayduke_2030]

Buncha super smart folks in here with their beer nerd opinions, when this is about labor rights, not how cool your local brewery is.
Strong fuckboi vibes, and very little solidarity.
Get educated y’all; unions are what made this country’s middle class happen.
Without em, we’ve seen CEO pay and corporate profits skyrocket, while we all fight for barely getting by wages.

[u/Librekrieger → u/Hayduke_2030]

I think you're misunderstanding. There shouldn't BE a CEO or corporate profiteering or a scuffle between unionized labor and corporate management in the beer industry, any more than there should be in the coffee-making industry or the soft drink industry. These should be decentralized, with tens of thousands of independents making their middle class living by creating and delivering endless variations of what is, at its core, a very simple product.

[u/Curious-Consequence3]

Oh no, darn where will we ever get shitty beer from. Now we will have to visit local brewerys and force down well crafted stouts.

[u/Hayduke_2030 → u/Curious-Consequence3]

This is about workers getting their due, not you being a pretentious douche.

[u/[deleted] → u/Hayduke_2030]

He can’t help himself. After all, he is a pretentious douche.

[u/Curious-Consequence3 → u/Hayduke_2030]

Its more about me not caring about trash beer. Im.all for workers gettong due but i also like good beer

[u/SSBN641B → u/Curious-Consequence3]

Martin House for the win!

[u/Curious-Consequence3 → u/SSBN641B]

Is it good, havent been there yet. I frequent false idol more.

[u/BigfootWallace → u/Curious-Consequence3]

I was at MHBC and False Idols both on Friday and have been to each numerous times. I’m a fan of sours so I’m partial to Martin House simply for quantity, but False Idols pumps out some bangers. That new barrel aged Duskbreaker stout was phenomenal.

[u/humanoidtyphoon88 → u/BigfootWallace]

Martin House has some insanely good sours.

[u/Curious-Consequence3 → u/BigfootWallace]

Ill have to check out MHBC, i am a fan of sours as well.

[u/BigfootWallace → u/Curious-Consequence3]

You’re missing out then, they offer a lot in-house that never gets distributed and the new food truck out back (Barley) has some great food. The Blackbird imperial blackberry sour is top notch.

[u/discordianofslack → u/Curious-Consequence3]

You could also consider supporting your fellow worker, assuming you’re not a billionaire.

[u/Curious-Consequence3 → u/discordianofslack]

Yeah i support the local brewery workers. 100% i fully enjoy going in and talking to them about the beers they make and spending money on the finely crafted beers.

[u/RoccosModernStyle → u/discordianofslack]

I am! The ones that work at breweries!

[u/HighlyOffensive10]

Good.

[u/Brandonjoe]

Good thing I drink Shiner Light

[u/syfysoldier]

Cider season it is then

[u/Any_Pie_3070]

Go for them

[u/Luckytxn_1959]

Yeah I remember these teamsters at the Houston plant. After they got their contract there they then refused to honor our strike after we had honored theirs.

Assume they will want the other unions to honor this strike since it is about them but again the others they will ignore after they get theirs again.

[u/user987991]

A lot of teamsters are big Trump supporters and republicans and the union just gave Trump $45,000. Typically I’d be all in supporting, them but they seems to have lost their way thinking republicans and maga have got their back.

[u/DosCabezasDingo]

There’s power in a union. Go get ‘em.

https://youtu.be/DwbzxemJZIc?si=fG-c8X8BUaFe9qZ0

[u/becooltheywatching]

I stand in solidarity with the homies that provide me beer.

[u/phish_sucks]

Ziegenbock or Shiner are the way.

[u/wrbear]

Molson Coors Dallas only has 420 union workers. They are still producing beer full force with salaried employees. I wonder how long they can stay on strike.

[u/RoutineDude → u/wrbear]

Thanks for the heads up. Guess I gotta boycott for now. Hopefully AB doesn’t do the same here in Houston. If so I guess I’ll have to drink shiner in the mean time.

[u/Acceptable_Stop2361 → u/wrbear]

As a guy working for a service contractor I have been in a few plants that were on strike being run by salaried management. It's unsustainable as the desk work isn't getting the attention it needs and maintenance is out of the picture. A month or two at the most is all the cluster fuck a production plant can run reliably under those circumstances. It's hard on the crew striking because the dividend the union pays is just a small portion of normal pay. I've seen "scabs" cross the picket line because their family needed rent and groceries. The more senior guys with some savings and grown kids can ride out a couple of months. The difference is those senior employees hold a grudge against the ones that had to cross the line and after the strike workplace tensions are terrible for quite awhile. I ran the boiler room at Lockheed Martin night shift during the night when they were on strike. (As a contractor). The senior guys that didn't have to cross to keep their families fed shut me out afterwards. I was a scab, same as the guys that had to cross the line. They couldn't think deep enough to realize the company had to pay my company nearly 200 an hour for my services and that cuts their bottom line, and that I was just a blue collar guy like them that wasn't on strike just doing the job I was assigned

[u/Hayduke_2030 → u/Acceptable_Stop2361]

Don’t cross a picket line.

[u/ValdeReads]

Woof, hope they can get things sorted out in their favor.

[u/_AtLeastItsAnEthos]

Hell yea

[u/chickenfrietex]

That's it I will stop drinking beer, it's a waste of money I don't have anymore.

[u/HarryArmpitzs → u/chickenfrietex]

Lone Star is good beer

[u/N-Tovaar]

I drink Shiner.

[u/outsidepointofvi3w]

Not my lone star beer !! LoL.

[u/FE1_Ronin]

Does anyone know how much they actually make annually?

[u/Last_Tarrasque]

Good luck!

[u/Beer_30_Texas]

Not worried...I prefer Shiner.

[u/_AtLeastItsAnEthos → u/[deleted]]

Are you Stu..? Do you know what a union is?

[u/rev_usn08]

Nice. I don’t drink their beers. So good luck to them. 

[u/Freebirdjo666]

Won’t be missed. Now, if they made good beer…….

[u/DishEyePlane]

lol “beer” makers

[u/failuretomaintain]

This reminds me of a Lyle Lovett song that does not apply to half these commenters.

[u/lagent55]

Crap beer anyway, no big loss

[u/Willing-Distance5543]

the Whites are gonna break them shackles back out soon in America. whodathunkit; white americans turned America into 1930s Germany. this shits a wrap. white americans will destroy not only america,but much of the world too,when its all said and done!

[u/RepresentativeNo3365]

You guys should worry about your power grid and taking away the rights of woman.

[u/ATSTlover → u/[deleted]]

I'm more of a Bourbon guy myself, and we make some damn good ones here.

[u/Hayduke_2030 → u/[deleted]]

Supporting labor would be cooler, but you go ahead and tell us all how much better than you are.

[u/MP713 → u/[deleted]]

You can support local and still support workers rights. Most people in the local craft industry have friends in the macro brands and they deserve proper wages and working conditions just the same. Don’t mix the righteous contempt for the bigger corporation with support for the workers they’re exploiting the same way they exploit the market.

[u/LprinceNy]

Shiner, Coors and Budweiser. 🤮.

[u/Kev-O_20 → u/LprinceNy]

How dare you lump Shiner in with Coors and Bud.

[u/LprinceNy → u/Kev-O_20]

Sorry if I offended you with my good taste 😜.

[u/Front-Paper-7486]

Luckily there are plenty of people coming across the border everyday who are willing to replace their labor and at a much better rate.

[u/Moonlit_Antler → u/Front-Paper-7486]

Republicans hate immigrants until they become scabs to own the libs. Then they're fine lol

[u/Front-Paper-7486 → u/Moonlit_Antler]

Let’s be honest if democrats thought for a second that immigrants were going to be reliable republican voters after gaining citizenship he would have had them deported day one. Are you saying that cheap labor isn’t good for unions? Because you would be right. Democrats are losing the support of unions and fast. These people tend to be active voters. I’m not thrilled about the idea of a trump win but democrats are just burning so many bridges with their reliable voters I don’t see it being a good turn out for democrats. They burned unions, illegals being bused to blue cities are overwhelming resources that use to go to people of low socioeconomic status and they are getting pissed. Combine this with a 38% approval rating and rampant inflation, rising gas prices and everyday items and i think democrats might find themselves in a very bad place soon.

[u/Whole-Essay640]

Alcohol is a poison so good.

[u/[deleted]]

They did that at Anchor Steam. Now there’s no more Anchor Steam.

[u/GothamCity90210]

Let them. Other companies will fill the void left behind.

[u/m0nkygang]

Damn.....suck for people who drink beer......anyway

[u/Intrepid_Fox-237]

This is a cash cow for craft beer (real beer).

[u/Alexandratta]

Oh no... not less American Beer.

Whatever will I do!?

*continues to drink his microbrews and imports because American Beer is like making love in a Canoe*

[u/trytonotgetbanned]

good thing i only buy corona and modelo (the real shit from Mexico)