About 420 members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 23D went on strike about six weeks ago, forming picket lines at the company's operations in Bardstown, Kentucky, after rejecting a previous contract proposal.
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The UFCW is one of the absolute worst unions operating in the USA
ReplyDeleteNot to argue, but what makes you say that?
DeleteI worked for a Midwest grocery chain for 11 years. We were under the UFCW. I thought they were about useless.
DeleteIdk, I was a Teamster during the period when the Teamsters office went on strike. Aaaand they were Teamsters. The head of the union scabbed across his own picket line.
DeleteMy personal Bete Nior is Service Employees International Union. If I remember correctly they were the ones thugging for Obama. They were the union at a hospital I worked at. It's a long complicated story but the cock suckers left us hang out to dry in contract negotiations, I ended up chief steward trying to negotiate with some hard core MF's hired by management and got no support at all by the union. almost 40 years later and I still hate them Assholes.
DeleteMight I suggest supporting some of the smaller independent distillers? Theres some crappy ones in Gatlinburg, but I've tried several versions from Chattanooga Whiskey, and they were all excellent sipping whiskeys.
ReplyDeleteSecond that. Big name distillers are off my list. With what seems to be an increasing number of small-scale distillers makes me wonder if the fed have loosened up on getting a distiller's license?
DeleteA point to reflect on about how much the federal government can screw up and destroy. A few years ago, I toured the Buffalo Trace distillery and on one of the walls in the visitor's center was a list of Kentucky distillers, quite long actually, before and after Prohibition. What was thought-provoking was the large number of distillers which did not survive Prohibition.
ReplyDeleteKentucky? Union must be holding out for lap dances by transgenders
ReplyDelete"Kentucky distilleries produce 95% of the world’s bourbon supply, according to the Kentucky Distillers’ Association."
ReplyDeleteI had no idea it was such a huge business in Kentucky.
Bourbon was named after Bourbon county in Kentucky. Given location trademarks (e.g., Feta cheese, some French wines), I would assume that Kentucky could trademark Bourbon whisky.
DeleteI have picked up a load out of there before (tractor trailer) was thrilled to see it is where Evan Williams is distilled...
ReplyDeleteFuck 'em. Fire all their asses. I hate unions!
ReplyDeleteBeen on a tour there years ago. In one of the five ? story aging warehouses an old lady stepped through a rotten floorboard and sprained her ankle. Maybe 10 - 15 years ago there was a huge fire where one warehouse collapsed and sent flaming barrels across the yard to ignite other warehouses. As I recall, the county is a "dry" county too.
ReplyDeletemike in Kokomo Indiana
That fire, caused by a lightning strike, was at the Heaven Hill Bardstown distillery in 1996. They lost 7 rickhouses full of whiskey and the distillery itself.
DeleteDistilleries around here have a policy that they mix various ages in each warehouse and will not concentrate any particular brand in any single warehouse. Because of this, Heaven Hill was able to continue bottling bourbon while the distillery was rebuilt.
Heaven Hill is in Nelson county which has never been a dry county.