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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYuengling (beer) owner doesn't like the free market, wants to PA to have right to screw worker laws.
What a fucking asshole.
[link:http://www.philly.com/philly/business/20130826_ap_94364a27c0804322a98feb64118035e5.html?c=r|
onehandle
(51,122 posts)And he's a prick who loves Corbett.
http://www.philly.com/philly/business/20130826_ap_94364a27c0804322a98feb64118035e5.html
safeinOhio
(32,669 posts)usually the biggest promoters of social darwin type theory. The Waltons, Kochs and Melons. They think everyone else should work their way up to the riches they were given.
HangOnKids
(4,291 posts)They had "special" bootstraps, called lucky sperm.
LearningCurve
(488 posts)eom
GeorgeGist
(25,318 posts)For not buying a product.
themaguffin
(3,825 posts)Redneck_Dem
(35 posts)Lugnut
(9,791 posts)Dick Yuengling managed to talk the workers out of signing a union contract and effectively broke the union.
themaguffin
(3,825 posts)everyone else is dirt poor.
Lugnut
(9,791 posts)Here's a very good article from Alternet that goes into detail about what happened with Yuengling.
http://www.alternet.org/story/140731/union_busting_ended_my_love_affair_with_a_beer
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)As one longtime union organizer once put it to me "If the penalty for robbing a bank was you had to post a piece of paper saying you robbed a bank, wed all be bank robbers!"
GoCubsGo
(32,078 posts)Just bought a 12-pack of Yuengling Light. It will be my last one.
Initech
(100,060 posts):g
meow2u3
(24,761 posts)Or at least until this Dick is in his grave.
onethatcares
(16,165 posts)my wife just gave me a 6 of black and tan for my birthday. This will be the last I ever drink unless he changes his mind.
Thanks for the heads up.