Nearly eight hundred Carlsberg workers are on strike after the Danish brewery, located in Copenhagen, recently made a certain policy change. As of April 1, employees are only allowed to drink beer during their thirty-minute lunch break at the canteen. Since the beginning of the brewer’s history in 1847, workers have been allowed to drink as many beers throughout the day as they wanted, with the qualification being that they could not be drunk on the job. Beer, soda, and water had been widely available throughout the brewery, but all beer has been removed following the policy change. And not just brewery workers have gone on strike; company drivers and warehouse workers have also protested because they were previously allowed to drink up to three beers during the day outside of lunch hours, which they can no longer do under the new policy. United Federation of Danish Workers representative Michael Christensen says that the change would not have been a problem, but Carlsberg did not consult with workers before making the change, a tradition they had kept throughout the company’s history. Shipments have been suspended, but financial loss because of the strike is not expected to be a problem.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/04/09/denmark.carlsberg.strike/index.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1264520/Carlsberg-staff-strike-beer-ban-Denmark.html
Submitted by: Katie Kregor
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