Word: anties
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Over the past twenty years, various advocacy groups have targetted the Denver-based brewery for policies that they perceive as anti-environment, anti-union and anti-civil rights. Resorting to economic warfare, they have called for a nationwide boycott of Coors products...
Typical of the calls for a boycott are resolutions such as the National Organization for Women's (NOW), which claims, "The Coors family has made significant contributions to organizations which oppose the rights of women, Third World, lesbian and gay people, as well as anti-union organizations," and that there are "clear relationships between the beer we buy, Coors family profits and large donations to these ultra-conservative groups...
Although the crusade is not over, certain of the battles are. Considering the company's policies apart from the family's politics, it seems that many of the boycotters' gripes have been resolved. But because Coors has yet to appease the union, the boycott continues and the anti-Coors forces manage to get a great deal of mileage out of criticizing the family's private donations...
Whether or not the Coors company is anti-union, more than nineteen unions have come and gone over the last twenty-five years. There is presently a union of Operating Engineers but unlike most unions, membership is not obligatory. It has about 30 members; Coors has more than 9000 employees. Brewery Workers Local 366 had about 1500 members when it went on strike...
Labor activists suggest that such groups are inherently anti-union, because without automatic union membership, workers can avoid paying union dues and still receive the benefits of the union's bargaining power...