'Long overdue': US workers making Bud Light and other beers threaten strike

Represented by Teamsters, 5,000 workers at Anheuser-Busch’s breweries prepare to strike after 99% voters favor authorization

Michael Sainato
@msainat1
Wed 17 Jan 2024 06.00 EST

Workers who make Bud Light and other top-selling beers are threatening to strike in demand of significant wage increases, job security and improvements to retirement and benefits in the first big union contract battle of 2024.

Five thousand workers, represented by the Teamsters at 12 Anheuser-Busch breweries in the US, are threatening to strike after voting 99% in favor of a strike authorization last month. Their current union contract is set to expire on 29 February.

“Without a contract by February 29, there won’t be any beer come March,” the Teamsters warned on X.

The contract fight is the first at Anheuser-Busch with the Teamsters president, Sean O’Brien, at the helm of the union. Elected in 2022, O’Brien led the union in securing record contract gain at UPS last year amid threats of a massive strike.

FULL story: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/17/us-beer-union-strike-bud-light-anheuser-busch?CMP=GTUS_email