Do you guys remember the "Boycott Coors" thingy way back?
This was when Coors beer was tossing the union.
Well, they tossed them. Jobs at Coors are one of the "dream jobs" in the Denver area. Good work, good pay, employee health club on site, discounts on the products and every employee has the option to be a "beer taster" for a week or so at their regular salary.
Goodbye union, hello "in demand" jobs.
I was living in Lincoln (Nebraska) during that famous Coors boycott (and so made it a point to always buy Coors); this was about the time "microbreweries," where beer was made in the bar itself, were evolving.
All of the Democrats, liberals, and pre-primitives waxed wroth about the "big corporate" Coors, and thought themselves virtuous by patronizing the "microbreweries."
They missed one important detail however, and all the reminding in the world couldn't penetrate their fossilized brains.
Employees of Coors were making good money, and had good benefits.
Employees of these fashionable trendy hip cool with-it "microbreweries" were mostly part-time, minimum-waged, and no benefits other than tips from customers.
Talk about exploiting labor.
