Anchor Brewing shuts down! Workers want a co-op

1. You can read another great story about a business that was shut down and brought back to life as a worker cooperative here: https://therealnews.com/after-beloved-baltimore-coffee-shop-abruptly-closed-workers-reopen-as-co-op

2. ANchor was a great bear until 1990 when the Fed changed pasturization laws. It effected companies that made fruit juices and other drinks. Anchor turned into a common hoppy bitter ale. A common ale. I went to Anchor in 1990-1991 and the beer at the brewery was what they Had made. Never bought another Anchor. Why should I? Ales are bitter and hoppy and not as tastey as lager. Lager is superior to ale

3. A co-op costs money to function. Employees need to raise funds or convince someone for a loan with serious business consequences from the present owners. The original owners of this brewery gave employees, with no business responsibilities, jobs for a very long time. It is not "a middle finger" to close a business. Frankly, the present owners owe nothing to employees nor do employees owe the owners. The co-op should have been started a very long time ago when it was publicly known that Anchor was unprofitably functioning for well over 10 years. Put up the co-op money or walk away and stop whining that this was such a "surprise".

4. The only thing about Anchor Brewing that needs to be saved is Anchor Steam lager, its the only beer they need to make, I literally never buy any of their other products, its an absolute unique gem in the beer world that beer aficionados recognize and seek out. Ditch everything else, it hasn't been Fritz Maytag's Anchor for a long time. Save Anchor Steam lager!

5. They followed u home

6. Whoa, Anchor was closing the doors?! I’m not an alcohol drinker, but it’s crazy to think that it could go away

7. I've heard the UK has a really rational and humane way of dealing with problems created by companies there going out of business. They allow workers at companies going out of business to apply for a loan together to buy their company and turn it into a Coop. The government approves a loan in the amount of how much money all members of the Coop would receive if they drew unemployment for the number of weeks the laws allow. That amount of money would then be used to purchase the company itself and cover operating costs to get them up and running. It should be possible to do the same here too. PLEASE check into the possibility of making that happen here in America too. ❤❤❤

8. I really do hope the Workers Co-op succeeds!

9. I hope that Anchor becomes a real worker co-op!

10. Sapporo has always been bitter, now we see why

11. ❤❤❤❤❤

12. No one's going to mention that interest rates are much higher now than 2 years ago? No one thinks that would have any impact on financing?

13. I'm not a big beer guy, I usually drink cocktails or those stiffer smirnoff fruit type malts. But I do like Miller high life. Rolling rock, & shiner bock. What's anchor like?

14. I remember the glass bottled anchor steam beer.

15. 6 months later she's tareing up the United States.

16. Thank you all on this discussion today and glad Mel from "The Real News Network"
    and these young gentlemen on with their love of history and learning anout Co-op's. Professor Richard Wolff and others you will find out how many people support other communities with co-operatives. CONGRATULATIONS ANCHOR BEER. KEEP IT GOING!!!!

17. Whatever. Co-ops are still arms of the capitalist economic system and do absolutely nothing to move us toward actual socialism. It's still imperialist Trotskyite DSA nonsense. It's the Bernie Sanders equivalent of the labor struggle.

18. There beer was meh , its a good starter beer , but there are way better breweries now

19. Maybe Anchor’s had a distribution problem because one can’t find it anywhere anymore.

20. sure all they have to do is pay $10Million up front lol.

21. By the way YouTube Scotch was a fraudster you know heads up

22. If you guys get to buy move it out of California.

23. SOLIDARITY

24. I used to live by the brewery and it was my beer of choice for a very long time, until I moved and eventually couldn’t find it out of the SF area anymore 😢

25. I wish the workers God speed in their quest.
    Once a monster foreign corporation buys a small firm it's often only a matter of time. Anhauser Busch bought Rolling Rock and closed the brewery, fired the workers and brewed the beer in Newark fraudulently using the same bottle, but the contents tasted like Budweiser. Within a year the Belgian.beverage monster Am Bev bought Anhauser Busch.

26. "MONDRAGON", RICHARD WOLF.

27. Love it! I want everything to be co-op! Stop giving so much of the money to CEOs and stock holders, unless employees are the main stock holders!

28. That's good beer, but have not seen it anywhere in New England for years. You are speaking sentimentally about the long history of the brewery and that makes NO difference if it's about the numbers. This is one of the dangers of big foreign corporations owning your company. Anyway, I hope the Anchor employees can work out a way to keep the place running. Best of luck folks !

29. Keep in mind; the relationship of management and labor, as defined by management, is one of antagonism. To think otherwise is beyond propagandistic, it's indoctrination.

30. Who owns Suppro. ? Bush.? They own micros soon as they get popular.

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