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Until 1977, Coors spokesmen rarely discussed the brewery's politics and policies in public. The offense gained momentum in 1977 when the AFL-CIO joined the boycott at the request of one of its local affiliates which was battling with Coors. Since then, William Coors and other company spokespeople have more actively discussed their company and have aggressively denied most of the boycotters' allegations. Wednesday was no exception, as Coors spent most of his hour-and-a-half speech denying charges of racism, sexism, union-busting and employee harassment. Arguing that the boycotters make him out to be an ogre...
...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...