Yuengling (beer) owner doesn't like the free market, wants to PA to have right to screw worker laws.

[themaguffin]

What a fucking asshole.

Yuengling also had other implicit criticisms of the business climate in Pennsylvania, including wanting to see a reduction in the capital stock and franchise tax.

Yuengling was included earlier this year on a Forbes magazine list of billionaires, but he insisted Monday that he is not worth a billion dollars.

[link:http://www.philly.com/philly/business/20130826_ap_94364a27c0804322a98feb64118035e5.html?c=r|

[onehandle]

1. They're the oldest brewery in America. They aren't going anywhere.

And he's a prick who loves Corbett.

http://www.philly.com/philly/business/20130826_ap_94364a27c0804322a98feb64118035e5.html

[safeinOhio]

2. Those that inherit big company are

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]

3. There You Have It!

They had "special" bootstraps, called lucky sperm.

[LearningCurve]

15. So true

eom

[GeorgeGist]

4. Great advertising!

For not buying a product.

[themaguffin]

5. Exactly

[Redneck_Dem]

6. Good beer

[Lugnut]

7. Yuengling used to be a union shop.

Dick Yuengling managed to talk the workers out of signing a union contract and effectively broke the union.

[themaguffin]

8. then he should be happy right? Oh that's right, he won't be happy until

everyone else is dirt poor.

[Lugnut]

9. That seems to be the goal.

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]

14. While threatening to close a plant if a union wins such an election is highly illegal,

the Yuengling Company has been able to get away with due to the weakness of U.S. labor law. According to a study recently released by Kate Bronfenbrenner of Cornell University, employers threaten to close facilities in 57% of union elections if workers choose a union, despite the fact that this threat is carried out only 2% of the time. This is because under U.S. labor law the penalty for threatening to close plants or firing workers during a union election is that the boss merely has to post a piece of paper saying they broke the law.

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, we’d all be bank robbers!"

[GoCubsGo]

10. Wish I'd know that yesterday.

Just bought a 12-pack of Yuengling Light. It will be my last one.

[Initech]

11. Guess I'll never buy their beer again when I'm on the east coast!

:g

[meow2u3]

12. I will never drink another Yeungling again

Or at least until this Dick is in his grave.

[onethatcares]

13. dammm it

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.