Troll will have to find a micro brewery beer that he will like here in Philly.

If every member of the BJ decided to boycott some
product it wouldn't cause so much as a ripple. Boycotting
something...I just dont "buy" some products...same result.
Its hard to say how qualified those are to start a "bandwagon"
movement against products that have a 20 year headstart
on killing you. Dont ever eat a commercially grown strawberry
from California.

Uke wrote:

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Genesee was an East Coast beer...http://www.geneseebeer.com/Genesee

And they're a unionized ourfit as well. They brewed a lager...and maybe a "Light(er) brew, and maybe an ice-type. They weren't the worst though...

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 Awful shit.......you can get a 30 pack of cream ale for under $15.

Boycott Yuengling. Support Troll. BurningJournaldotcom will shut those bastards down! No matter what Krink says!

Kinda figured this episode may take a while to be availabe again.
Maybe it will be repeated some day but dont bet on it. I grow
strawberries organically with just dirt and water.

There is this:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/05/17/152522900/the-secret-life-of-californias-world-class-strawberries

The rest of the story:

 

Why Dick Yuengling wants PA to be a right to work state

During a speech at the Pennsylvania Press Club on Monday, Dick Yuengling, CEO of the Pottsville, PA-based Yuengling Brewing Company, told reporters and lobbyists in attendance that hed like Pennsylvania to be a right-to-work state, claiming itd bring more jobs to Pennsylvania.

The CEOs speech ranged in topics, from Tom Corbett (a great man) to liquor privatization (hes for it) to whether hed ever sell the company, like Budweiser did (Nobodys going to offer me a billion dollars for it, and if they [did], I wouldnt take it).

But his support of right-to-work, a law thats never gotten any traction in the Pennsylvania legislature, despite its proponents ability to make lots of noise, was perhaps the biggest takeaway from the speech.

Right-to-Work is the slick name given to a series of laws that give workers who receive union benefits the option of whether or not to join said union with which their career is affiliated. Such laws most recently passed in Michigan (the 24th state to do so), during the 2012 post-election lame duck session, and were met with protests and anger around the country.

And like many governors elected in 2010, Gov. Corbett has made it his mission over the last two years to drive union workers crazy, loosening their hold on public sector jobs.

Earlier this year, a series of RTW laws, which were all-the-more slickly named the Pennsylvania Open Workforce Initiative, were introduced and supported by the governor (who also noted Pennsylvania lacks the will to pass them). In their fight for right to work, proponents often cite compulsory unionism, or, the idea that one must join a union to hold a certain job, in addition to the oft-cited criticism that union bosses make a lot of money.

A group called Pennsylvanians for Right-to-Work is one side in support of recent legislationobviously. Theyve been organizing and advocating against unionism since all the way back in 1962. And their communications and legislative director, Matthew Wagner, says momentum is now at a point of no return.

There was no sponsor of Right-to-Work legislation who was defeated during the [last] election cycle, he gives us as evidence of some of that momentum. Union bosses live by intimidation and bullying and those tactics, and union members have to support that to hold a job, and thats part of the problem with compulsory unionism, is the way its set up.

This, despite the fact that Corbett has said the state Legislature lacks the will to enact RTW laws.

Compulsory union membership gives a union more membership and clout when negotiating contracts, and puts more money in the union heads pockets, since union members pay dues. Union advocates claim this is necessary to help blue-collar and other workers keep their clout and wages.

[Right-to-Work means] their bargaining power is shrunk and, therefore, so is their ability to negotiate wages and benefits and all the things that help union members and the other workers, even if theyre not in a union, notes Jessica Burgan, communications director at union-backed community organizing group Fight for Philly.

Burgan is a member of a coalition thats set to fight against this for as long as it takes. Her sentiments are shared with the larger union presence in the state.

Liz McElroy, Secretary-Treasurer of the Philadelphia AFL-CIO, agrees, and takes Burgans sentiments a bit farther. [RTW is] nothing more than an attack on workers and an attack on unions, she says. It doesnt create more jobs.

McElroy cites numerous statistics found on the AFL-CIOs main site as evidence, including many of which which claim so-called union states offer a better quality of life to their inhabitants.

So, Yuengling says right-to-work creates jobs. Union proponents say it doesnt. Whos right?

The answer may come from a 2007 Hofstra University study. It found that RTW laws do help boost the raw number of businesses in a state (score one for Yuengling) but numeric monetary gains mostly go to owners while wages go down (score one for the union advocatesand Yuengling?) A 2011 Economic Policy Institute study found right-to-work states have lower wages on the whole.

Right-to-work may also have the tendency to turn employees who receive union benefits into freeloaders by not having to pay dues.

According to the Washington Post: A 1998 survey of the econometric literature by William J. Moore found that right-to-work laws lead to more free-riding behavior among employees. That, in turn, leads to a decline in unionization drives, in organizing successes, and ultimately in overall union density. Recently, Idaho and Oklahoma saw their union densities drop after adopting right-to-work laws in the early 2000s.

Yuengling, whose family has been hammering Americans livers since 1829, has also campaigned for Republicans in the past and was recently honored in the State Legislature via a resolution with 85 co-sponsors, which noted, Thanks to the companys tremendous success, it can now also claim the title of Americas largest domestically owned and operated brewery.

And given Yuenglings penchant for Republican policies and his estimated $1.3 billion fortune, its no wonder hes in favor of right-to-work laws.