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...diversity was evident in class as well as culture. In the '60s hard hats were all too often on the sidelines taunting "unpatriotic" protesters. This spring many of the demonstrators wore union insignia. The staunchly conservative AFL-CIO hierarchy urged its members to boycott the rally, but five of the six largest unions in the federation endorsed the protest, and union members were heavily represented. Some observers estimated that as many as a third of the marchers were union members...
CHARGES OF RACISM, SEXISM AND homophobia aside, the main dispute between the boycotters and the company is over Coors' labor practices. The AFL-CIO says its strike against Coors began over human dignity issues, such as forced lie-detector tests and illegal search and seizure. But William Coors stridently denies that the lie detector tests were at issue in the strike, and claims that there have only been four cases of search and seizure over the past fifteen years, all of which involved alleged drug...
...AFL-CIO and Coors could not agree on the causes of the strike; they could not reach a settlement either. Indeed, the resulting strike has yet to be resolved, although over two-thirds of the striking workers have returned to the brewery. Almost two years after the strike's start, the non-striking workers voted to decertify the AFL-CIO affiliate, Brewery Workers Local 366. The striking workers were unable to vote in the decertification election...
...boycott over Coors' union policy continues. According to John Laughlin of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO, the boycott will end, "When either Coors allows a free undeterred [union] election or when they settle a collective bargaining agreement with Brewery Workers Local...
...even if the AFL-CIO were to settle its disputes with the company, many boycotters would not be satisfied, for they object not just to brewery policy, but to the organizations which the Coors family funds with their brewery profits. Scondras typifies this position with his claim, "It would be self-destructive for gay people or black people or progressive people to be financially supporting a family that makes it very clear through their behavior that they're interested in dealing with gay people, black people and progressive people in a very disrespectful manner." Scondras' assertions are based...