Anheuser-Busch offers buyout packages to union workers (at the company’s U.S. breweries)

Source: syracuse.com

By Charley Hannagan

Syracuse, NY--Anheuser-Busch InBev said today that it has reached an agreement with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters on the terms of a buyout package for union workers at the company’s U.S. breweries, including the one in Lysander.

The company said it will offer about 300 packages to interested Teamster workers. The agreement provides for cash incentives based on years of service for employees who voluntarily resign.

Eligibility for pension and healthcare benefits are based on provisions of the local labor contracts at each brewery, the company said.

Anheuser-Busch employs about 800 workers at its Lysander plant on Route 31. Its contract with the Teamsters runs through 2013.


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File photo by Dick Blume Anheuser-Busch trucks leaving the beer plant outside Baldwinsville, NY.

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Yellow fizzy piss water is Grandpa's beer.

actually taste something. Right now it is Edmund Fitzgerald porter. Used to drink a lot of Two Hearted Ale, but Bells is too expensive. Schlafly APA is so good, and you can get it at Krogers in my area.

Edmond Fitzgerald is quite good, but I brought home some Burning River from my Easter Ohio trip. And I found a big 1.3 gallon mini-keg of Two Hearted that I'm going to tap very soon!

Founders Breakfast Stout is incredibly good, so is their Centennial IPA.

Love the citrus of Two Hearted Ale.

Schlafly's ESB is as good a bitter as one would wish for. It's a winter brew.

Hoegaarden. It's not as spicy as Hoe, and not as bready like Oberon. Nice carbonation.

its a negotiation with management, who is not required to use organized labor. Its actually exactly how things are supposed to work. They offer, we counter offer, we negotiate, we agree.

Considering this for a few minutes more, I applaud AB for doing this, instead of more typical, draconian tactics.

loss of union power.

Other corporations and republicans are consistently working and finding other different ways to get the last 7% of Union workers in this country finally destroyed - Forever!

Republicans and their corporations have always hated Unions and are trying to destroy the last bit of them, make the Unions powerless and without political influence -If the republicans & corporations can they will make it Unions all but illegal - Workers would then have NO united voice and workers would be 100% at the mercy of corporations.

This is how it works: companies which need to layoff employees are going to get sued for age discrimination if they simply lay off the older workers. Instead, they work up lucrative severance packages for their older workers who are close to retirement age to entice them to leave the companies voluntarily. They almost always make offers to more employees than take the deal with the hope that enough of them will take the check that they won't have to lay anybody off. The company workforce gets younger, and the older workers retire to their pensions with a fat check in their hands.

It's a win-win most of the time. The company my dad works for just cut him a $175K check to retire. He was going to retire in March, but got wind of the severance deals from his manager, stayed around a bit longer, and got his deal. His pension benefits kick in immediately upon retirement date (he saved up 8 weeks of vacation to use up first), and that doesn't even include his other retirement benefits.