Word: cio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When the AFL-CIO takes you on, they can do your reputation a tremendous amount of damage," William Coors said in an interview. Whether or not his reputation deserved the damage is where Coors and the boycotters disagree...
...CIO Coors boycott director, Dave Sickler, argues, "If our allegations are untrue, why haven't they sued us for libel?" Meanwhile, William Coors has offered $10,000 to anyone who can substantiate any of the charges against the company...
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...
...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...