Lunch-Only Beer Policy Prompts Carlsberg Strike

[kpete]

Lunch-Only Beer Policy Prompts Carlsberg Strike
Published: Friday, 9 Apr 2010 | 9:45 AM ET
By: Associated Press

Scores of Carlsberg workers walked off their jobs in protest Thursday after the Danish brewer tightened laid-back rules on workplace drinking and removed beer coolers from work sites, a company spokesman said.


The warehouse and production workers in Denmark are rebelling against the company's new alcohol policy, which allows them to drink beer only during lunch hours in the canteen. Previously, they could help themselves to beer throughout the day, from coolers placed around the work sites.

The only restriction was "that you could not be drunk at work. It was up to each and everyone to be responsible," company spokesman Jens Bekke said.

Carlsberg had mulled a stricter drinking policy for years and finally decided to impose the new rules on April 1, prompting protests from the staff.

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http://www.cnbc.com/id/36314745

[Webster Green]

1. I stand in solidarity with them.

Those restrictions are outrageous! :toast:

[sui generis]

2. Europe has such a more grown-up view of alcohol

and sexuality. There are companies in the U.S. that prohibit their employees from drinking on their lunch hour! Uh, on campus okay, but unless the company is buying your lunch it's your dollar and your hour and your moderation.

You would NEVER see a pixilated cartoon ass crack on TV in most places in western Europe and I mean kid's TV, and nudity in art and in advertising doesn't even raise an eyebrow. Ass cracks in America apparently make grown men lose control and hump the coffee table on the way to humping the door frame.

I'm not counting inbred island dwellers like the british in this observation . . . and most of them should have their asscracks pixilated.

:hide:

:P

kidding . . .