I'll Drink To That

WSJ:

HOJE-TAASTRUP, Denmark—Michael Christiansen, a truck driver turned union representative, is fighting hard to preserve one of the last, best perks of the beer industry: the right to drink on the job.


Mr. Christiansen's union brethren are wort boilers, bottlers, packers and drivers at Carlsberg A/S, Denmark's largest brewer. For a century, they've had the right to cool off during a hard day's work with a crisp lager.


But on April 1, the refrigerators were idled and daily beer spoils were capped at three pint-sized plastic cups from a dining hall during lunch hour.


"This is a right workers have had for 100 years," Mr. Christiansen says. "Carlsberg has taken it away without any negotiating at all."


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Of course, it's the union aspect of this story that attracts me. It has nothing to do with what it must be like to live in a country in which such a dispute is even possible... oh, no, not at all. Nothing to do with three cold ones a day while I work. Nothing... [/snark]

H/T Susie Madrak.