British Columbia microbreweries work overtime in beer strike

[icymist]

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/aplocal_story.asp?category=6420&slug=CAN%20Beer%20Strike



Monday, May 10, 2004 · Last updated 6:15 a.m. PT

British Columbia microbreweries work overtime in beer strike

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Microbreweries in British Columbia are straining to meet demand during a strike that has halted distribution of major brands across most of the province.

About 300 workers hit the bricks May 1 in a wage dispute at Brewers Distributor Ltd. in New Westminster, halting deliveries of Canada's two leading brands of beer, Molson and Labatt, and of many imports, including Miller, Coors and Budweiser from the United States.

At the Labatt brewery in New Westminster, about 100 employees have been temporarily laid off and operations have been shut down since Tuesday.

Some stores and bars have run out of Labatt and Molson products and stocks are rapidly disappearing from others.

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[DarkPhenyx]

1. Oh the humanity!

People might actually have to drink decent beer for a cahnge. How will the world survive.

[tigereye]

2. that is what I was thinking too

I really don't like most mainstream beers. JMO

[DarkPhenyx]

3. Mine too.

Fortunately my brother brews his own. :) He's good at it too.