Word: boycotts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...boycott of products from controversial companies would have a greater effect than divestment, Houston told the paper, but he questioned whether students would be willing to make the sacrifice...
Both sides of the controversy feel that their positions are gaining strength. Coors shipped a record number of beer barrels last year and continues to expand and do well in its new markets. Meanwhile, the boycott groups claim they are increasing outreach and educational efforts...
...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...
...Coors supporters say that boycotters should separate Coors the company from Coors the family and that the boycott should be based on the former. Coors spokesman Joe Fuentes suggests that the family tries "to separate the political involvement versus the company involvement...
Coors continues to expand into new states and the boycott continues to follow. And boycotters maintain that as long as Coors exists, they will too. Hilary Richard, manager of Harvard Law School's pub, which does not sell Coors, says, "to the extent that [the family has] politicized themselves, I don't think that they can separate their politics from their business...