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The overwhelming majority of craft brewery workers remain without unions at a time when they’d most benefit from them. But to paraphrase an old labor movement saw: the best time to organize for better working conditions is before shit goes bad; the second-best time is before shit gets worse. In my column this week at VinePair, I put the recent macrobrewer retreats from craft brewing in context with the segment's stubbornly low union density.
Charles Weise
4 个月
I hope the workers at any mythical brewery still seeing YoY growth read this. It’s one of the lesser sadnessess associated with a brewery failure, but I would like to go the rest of my life never reading a comment / think peice about how a union is the cause and not the response to cut our way to profitability demoralization. It’s starting to feel like vanity project for rich guy is replacing big beer buy out as the craft beer golden ticket. I hope the initial noblesse oblige doesn’t lull the workforce back into the unions are for the other guys mindset.
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4 个月The share of U.S. workers who belong to a union has fallen since 1983, when 20.1% of American workers were union members. The U.S. population was 234 million. In 2023, 10.0% of U.S. workers were in a union, while the population was listed as 335 million. What do you attribute this to, Dave, and does this support your position?