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It's been mentioned in a couple of articles that, now defunct, Anchor Steam Brewing unionized in 2019.
They just closed the doors, putting 61 people out of work.
A lot of articles are blaming a rebranding in 2021, but I wonder.
There's a pattern with small shops owned by larger corporations, Sapporo in this case, going out of business shortly after unionizing.
The press, being pro-union, does not investigate this pattern.
Founded 1896
Sold to Sapporo 2017
Unionized 2019
Rebrand 2021
DEAD 2023
I posit that Sapporo would not have bought a failing brand.
I also posit that nobody does a rebrand on a healthy brand.
It was probably the Union. But you'll never get libtards to admit that because Unions are one of their sacred things. If they had their way all businesses would be Unionized and Union membership would be mandatory. Then of course in their perfect world that Union would be part of the great one world government and the companies would all be nationalized then globalized.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately the reality often is that Unions protect malcontents and slackers and do nothing but increase costs and reduce productivit and quality. And they are often controlled by the mafia.
You have to wonder whether Sapporo might be partly to blame due to mishandling relations with the Union, but probably that's a two-way street.
Another possible thing that is slightly hinted at but not really directly addressed in the article is that being located in San Francisco may have had a big part in the failure. SF is a stupidly expensive place to do business. It's also completely disfunctional these days in so many ways it is hard to pick a place to start listing them. It's highly likely that labor issues as well as supply chain, etc., became bigger issues than they might have elsewhere due to the location.
-swj