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The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is calling for a nationwide boycott of Molson Coors amid stalled labour talks betwixt nan national and nan beverage company.
Some 420 members of Teamsters Local 997 successful Texas person been connected onslaught for much than a period astatine Molson Coors' Fort Worth brewery aft negotiators grounded to scope an statement connected a caller three-year statement for workers.
Striking Molson Coors workers picket extracurricular nan company's Fort Worth, Texas, brewery connected Feb. 19. (International Brotherhood of Teamsters / Fox News)
| TAP | MOLSON COORS BEVERAGE CO. | 68.11 | -0.08 | -0.12% |
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For weeks, nan national has called for brew drinkers to extremity buying Molson Coors brands for illustration Coors Light and Miller Lite successful bid to show support for nan striking workers. Then past week, nan Teamsters wrote members of Congress, urging them to dispersed nan connection and subordinate their boycott efforts.
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In nan letter, nan Teamsters suggested group move to different brew brands, specifically recommending Anheuser-Busch InBev products specified arsenic Bud Light and Busch, while hailing A-B arsenic a "model employer" for its precocious ratified caller nationwide statement pinch nan union.
The Teamsters national is calling for brew drinkers to temporarily boycott Molson Coors and move to Anheuser-Busch products amid a labour conflict pinch nan Coors Light maker. (Brandon Bell / Getty Images)
"We respectfully inquire that your agency does its portion and temporarily boycott Molson Coors products until nan institution comes to a adjacent corporate bargaining statement pinch Local 997 members, and alternatively bargain your brew from employers for illustration Anheuser Busch who dainty their labor fairly," nan union's missive to lawmakers read.
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A-B continues to grapple pinch a boycott of its own pursuing user backlash complete its arguable business pinch transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney a twelvemonth ago.
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The Teamsters national claims Molson Coors is not negotiating successful bully religion and has offered workers raises of little than $1 an hr successful its proposals.
When reached for comment, Molson Coors told FOX Business successful a statement, "We stay committed to doing what's correct for everyone and reaching a adjacent statement successful Fort Worth. We've offered highly competitory wages and benefits disconnected an already beardown guidelines and participated successful astir 40 negotiating sessions pinch nan national arsenic we activity toward a deal."
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"In nan meantime, our beardown contingency plans proceed to guarantee we meet demand," Molson Coors' connection continued. "We're still brewing, packaging and shipping retired of Fort Worth, we person exceeded each of our play accumulation expectations during this time, and past week we really group a regular accumulation grounds since nan onslaught began. Our different 5 U.S. breweries are besides absorbing other production, and we deliberately built up supplier inventories earlier successful nan year."
