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Carlsberg workers strike over beer drinking limit at work

  • 09-04-2010 10:46am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,255 ✭✭✭✭


    http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2010-04-08-carlsberg-beer-drinking-limit_N.htm
    COPENHAGEN (AP) — 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.

    Bekke said around 800 workers went on strike Wednesday and around 250 walked off their jobs Thursday, resulting in interruptions to beer transports in and around Copenhagen.

    Carlsberg's truck drivers joined the strike in sympathy — even thought they are exempt from the new rules, Bekke said. The truck drivers are permitted to bring three beers from the canteen because they often don't have time to have lunch there.

    The trucks have alcohol ignition locks preventing the drivers from driving drunk, he added.

    I'm curious as to who allowed employees to drink at work up till now?


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭MaybeLogic


    Carlsberg don't do strikes.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    Lazy b*stards


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,739 ✭✭✭Naos


    Madness.

    I'd love to be allowed a pint at lunchtime, especially now it's beer garden weather.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,313 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    Methinks April 1st had something to do with this.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Carlsberg is piss anyway.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,606 ✭✭✭Jumpy


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    Carlsberg is piss anyway.

    But its the best piss in the world.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Jumpy wrote: »
    But its the best piss in the world.
    Probably.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    It's donkey piss drunk by a horse and then pissed back into a pint glass.

    Horrible gack! I do enjoy most of their ads, though!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,331 ✭✭✭✭bronte


    They get to drink at work? :eek:
    I'm in the wrong profession.

    *Applies to Carlsberg*


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    K-9 wrote: »
    Methinks April 1st had something to do with this.

    That's two now.

    Biggins was first :p


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,553 ✭✭✭✭Dempsey


    Those rules were added April 1st?

    Sounds like a joke


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,313 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    That's two now.

    Biggins was first :p

    It was only put up yesterday so adds credibility. It was in the USA Today, smashes credibility.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,893 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    Dempsey wrote: »
    Those rules were added April 1st?

    Sounds like a joke

    No waaaai?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    K-9 wrote: »
    It was only put up yesterday so adds credibility. It was in the USA Today, smashes credibility.

    The date the rule was introduced though:
    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.

    This is laughable anyway:
    Previously, they could help themselves to beer throughout the day, from coolers placed around the work sites.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,313 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    The date the rule was introduced though:



    This is laughable anyway:

    Yep, thats what I noticed, though, it is too good to be true, unfortunately.

    PC, Do Gooder, Liberal, Pinko, Commie Health & Safety officers.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,333 ✭✭✭gaz wac


    Naos wrote: »
    Madness.

    I'd love to be allowed a pint at lunchtime, especially now it's beer garden weather.

    who said your not allowed !! :confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    Carlsberg is piss anyway.

    blasphemy


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    blasphemy
    No. This is blasphemy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,313 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    The trucks have alcohol ignition locks preventing the drivers from driving drunk, he added.

    That gave it away, tbh. Impractical.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    I'm curious as to who allowed employees to drink at work up till now?

    I worked on a building site in Germany ages ago and the German (as in, not contract or under the table) lads were allowed to have a small can of beer at lunchtime.

    Maybe that was just an unofficial thing or only on that site. I don't know.


  • Posts: 24,713 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Naos wrote: »
    Madness.

    I'd love to be allowed a pint at lunchtime, especially now it's beer garden weather.

    Its one thing I find strange here in a county were we all regularly get hammered and turning up for work drunk/hungover is no problem but a pint a lunch is a real taboo.

    I lived in London for a year and I was amazed at first the amount of lunch time drinking that goes on but you get used to it. Especially in the financial areas the pubs are packed out at lunch with people have 2 or 3 quick pints with lunch. I wouldn't be a fan of it myself as I don't like the idea of having a pint or two and then having to go back working rather than staying in the pub.

    Drinking on the job (actually in the office during work) is also acceptable for people in some high stress jobs such as traders etc.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    stovelid wrote: »
    I worked on a building site in Germany years back and the German (as in, not contract or under the table) lads were allowed to have a small can of beer at lunchtime.

    Maybe that was just an unofficial thing or only on that site. I don't know.

    You're thinking of Auf Wiedersehen Pet ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,811 ✭✭✭Gone Drinking


    Its quite normal on the continent to have a beer at lunch, many companies cater for this. I know of people who have worked in offices in Germany, where at 1pm on a Friday, a few crates of beer are brought in, and people share them around.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    I lived in London for a year and I was amazed at first the amount of lunch time drinking that goes on but you get used to it. Especially in the financial areas the pubs are packed out at lunch with people have 2 or 3 quick pints with lunch. I wouldn't be a fan of it myself as I don't like the idea of having a pint or two and then having to go back working rather than staying in the pub.

    I was just thinking this too.

    I could have one at Friday lunch if I want (work doesn't mind) but usually it's too annoying to just have one or to go back and work after having a beer.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,815 ✭✭✭imitation


    It was the same story in guiness up in dublin, there was war when they started cutting back on drinking during work. I can imagine it being the same story at any brewrey.


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