MOLSON COORS OFFERS WORKERS 5 CENTS, CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS COLLAPSE IN TEXAS

[Omaha Steve]

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PR Newswire Thu, Mar 28, 2024, 2:30 PM CDT

41-Day Strike Continues, Teamsters Boycott Coors and Miller During March Madness

FORT WORTH, Texas, March 28, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Negotiations with Molson Coors broke off on Thursday over the multibillion-dollar beermaker's refusal to agree to real wage increases for Teamsters in a new three-year contract. Members of Teamsters Local 997 continue to hold the strike line 24/7 at the Fort Worth brewery as a nationwide boycott of Molson Coors products continues.

In negotiations that included a mediator on Thursday, Molson Coors offered just five more cents per hour in its wage proposal to the workers who brew and package its signature beers. For months, Molson Coors had not budged from its original degrading offer of 99-cent per hour raises. Since workers were forced onto the picket line 41 days ago, Molson Coors CEO Gavin Hattersley has been paid more than $5.1 million.

"Molson Coors is a total disgrace. This isn't a serious offer from one of America's biggest beer companies. It's an example of the willful disrespect it has for the American workers behind its products. Molson Coors doesn't care about Texas workers or their hard labor or the sacrifices their families have made to make the company rich. The corporate end game here is to try to drive the union out of the brewery in Texas. Molson Coors wants to break the workers," said Teamsters General President Sean M. O'Brien. "Let me be clear — the Teamsters aren't going anywhere. We will fight as hard and for as long as it takes to protect our members and get the wages they deserve. It shouldn't be difficult for Molson Coors to agree to a respectable contract, unless their goal is to deprive workers of fair wages and strip them of good benefits and job protections."

"Molson Coors brought in $12 billion last year, and they have the nerve to sit across from us at the bargaining table and offer workers who made them that money a nickel more in wages. We can't even call this an offer — it's spitting in the face of each of the 420 Teamsters in Texas who make this company and its executives obscenely wealthy," said Jeff Padellaro, Director of the Teamsters Brewery, Bakery, and Soft Drink Conference.




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[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

1. This makes me glad I quit drinking a few years back.

What an insult to the workers.

[riversedge]

2. K and R

[CrispyQ]

3. "...the willful disrespect it has for the American workers behind its products."

The attitude way too many American companies have toward their workers.

IMO, employees should own part of the company & have at least one rep on the Board.

[Aristus]

4. Man, if that wasn't a shot across the bow. A five-cent raise is worse than no offer at all.

I swear, the rich shitheads in this country just don't know how to run businesses.

Thirty years ago, when I was working in a bookstore for minimum wage right out of the Army, my manager denied me a 25 cent per hour raise, even though I was the store's best employee. I walked out, found another job, and then called him to tell him I quit. You don't get notice from me when I'm working for this shit wage. You just deal with the fact that you're now understaffed. Have fun managing the store with a collection of semi-literate chuzzlewits.

[ChazInAz]

29. I did much the same.

When I, with wife and infant, arrived in Tucson from the Chicago area, I wound up working in the restaurant of a major department store. At the interview, the boss asked where I saw myself in five years.I told him that I'd be in management, and that if I wasn't, the length of my notice would be inversely proportionate to the amount of shit dumped on me. It was a miserable, minimum wage five years riding herd on a staff of drunks and loons as chief Cook. Annoyingly, we went through managers on an annual basis. I'd apply for the position, and be told that I was too valuable where I was, and be given a few cents more an hour...never more than a nickle. Then, I wound up training the new managers in every aspect of restaurant business. Most of them had been brought in from other departments in other units of the department store. The last one had been in shoes, and was perfectly happy to sit at a table, drink coffee and let me continue to run the place for $4.00 an hour.
On my fifth anniversary, after a particularly hellish Friday at the start of a three day holiday weekend, when my relief cook had called in drunk...I got fed up. Checked the want ads after work and saw that a popular local restaurant was hiring management. Applied and was hired on the spot.
Phoning in my notice was the sweetest moment of my life. The restaurant closed shortly thereafter, and the store itself was purchased a year or so later by Macy's in a hostile takeover.
Karma.

[Aristus]

31. Well done!

[modrepub]

5. If Someone Had Told Me Back In The Day

that Coors and Molson would be the same company, I would have spit out my Meister Brau in manic laughter.

[pecosbob]

6. Or that Lowenbrau would be turned into pisswater by Miller

Of course that happened decades ago.

[captain queeg]

7. I worked a place that did this many years ago

We didn’t have a union but asked for a raise. Management came back with 5 cents. To be clear that wasn’t across the board, it was a raise to the top rate. Guys like me, and really most of those that had been there awhile, only got 5 cent raise though maybe those at a lower rate got more. It was really insulting.

[patphil]

8. A whole nickel!

Damn! These Molson Coors guys are real shits.

[rurallib]

10. That's $100 for the year based on 2,000 hours per year

What an insult.

[Wonder Why]

22. No, a measly nickel MORE than the measly 99 cent offer.

In negotiations that included a mediator on Thursday, Molson Coors offered just five more cents per hour in its wage proposal to the workers who brew and package its signature beers. For months, Molson Coors had not budged from its original degrading offer of 99-cent per hour raises.

The CEO is worried they may be getting too close to his pay at this rate!

[chowder66]

9. Insulting.

[JoseBalow]

11. Translation for the hearing impaired

[Hermit-The-Prog]

12. Coors has always been anti-union.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

30. My favorite beer was Yuengling.

Their owner was virulently anti-union, also.

[birdographer]

13. I hope the workers can hold out or go elsewhere

The company is not going to thrive and earn 5 billion for that CEO if there are no workers.

[Aussie105]

14. CEOs around the world:

This company is doing well because of my brilliance, so I expect a decent pay.

Those workers though - uppity, very inconvenient, they should be grateful they have a job at all.
And they want more money? How insolent!

CEOs - Unions exist because of you!

[paleotn]

15. Seems Coors is still run by a bunch of douchbags.

[Joinfortmill]

16. Suddenly, I no longer drink beer. Do you?

[Oopsie Daisy]

18. My husband truly, honestly, sincerely dislikes American beers. He calls them *

* swill and watered-down. He does, however, enjoy German beers and British Ales. --- I remember seeing a youtube video of Germans tasting American beer ("beer'') that was quite amusing. The fellow sipped the American beer and said "Mmmm! Wow! Yes... that's the best tasting COLORED WATER that I've ever had!"

[ms liberty]

17. Moosehead is still a family owned Canadian brewery. That's what I drink since Molsons sold out to Coors n/t

[Upthevibe]

19. Omaha Steve .............

President Biden and his surrogates need to be all over this!

If commercials are run in states that illustrate how the working man/woman are being massively screwed by the corporations for whom they work maybe people will finally vote in their self-interest. Wages have been stagnate for many, may years - due to the absurdity of "trickle-down economics."

This has to change or the middle-class is over! I think if anyone can lead a "union" comeback, it's Joe Biden.

[madamesilverspurs]

20. Not just beer.

Back in the '80s I needed insurance and went to work in a fast food place to get it. I almost didn't get hired because the assistant manager saw the management experience on my resume and assumed I'd be after her job. The manager, in the course of the interview, asked about that, and I told her I had no interest in advancement. After my trial period they gave me a "satisfactory" evaluation and gave me a nickel raise. The manager wasn't expecting my laughter and asked if I thought the raise was funny. I asked her if her bosses ever complained about her not being able to keep good help, and she nodded 'yes'. I said that maybe having to work twenty hours to earn another dollar had something to do with that; she admitted she'd never thought about it like that, and agreed that it was more than a little insulting.

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[Warpy]

21. Who are they kidding?

Don't they know what the inflation rate has been? Do they think in the current political climate that there will be thousands of iundocumented workers just waiting to be scab labor for them?

What the fuck have they been smoking? I want to avoid it.

These guys are living back in the 70s and 80s, when workers had to take shit like this because there weren't enough jobs.

Times have changed, ya cheap bastards. I hope you're in for a very rude awakening.

[MOMFUDSKI]

23. Labor has power right now. Hold firm.

Those dirty bastads

[Mawspam2]

24. Here's an idea...

...stop paying to put your name on Arenas and Stadiums.

[summer_in_TX]

25. Coors was founded by Adolf Coors, very right wing.

I see their corporate culture is still as horrible as it was under Adolf.

[OAITW r.2.0]

26. Insulting.

I worked in manufacturing then international sourcing for 40 years. Relative to their operational efficiency (making liquid gold), this is cheap money to pump up employee wages and improve employee commitment .

[Aussie105]

27. History of beer is interesting.

Originally an alternative to well water, when the water wasn't safe to drink.

Beer had to be strong, high in alcohol, because that sterilised the water used in brewing.

Then water got safe to drink, and the makers figured that watering down beer would increase profits.
Maybe turn off older drinkers but the kids won't notice.

A fair day's pay for a fair day's work would be nice, right?

[Elessar Zappa]

32. Actually, it depended on the era and place.

In medieval England, the daily ale was very weak, estimated at 2%. That was their primary drink. To get drunk they drank “strong’ ale which had much higher alcohol content.

[OldBaldy1701E]

28. Yep. Par for the course.

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