Woodford Reserve tried to undermine unionization effort at its Kentucky distillery, judge rules
Woodford Reserve tried to undermine unionization effort at its Kentucky distillery, judge rules
A federal judge has ruled that Woodford Reserve undermined unionization efforts at its Kentucky distillery by awarding pay raises, relaxing its vacation policy and handing out bottles of whiskey to workers before a vote on whether to unionize.
Woodford Reserve is owned by Brown-Foreman, who also owns Jack Daniels, Old Forester, Korbel, and Chambord.
There's no way the subsidiary made those decisions alone. If you're going to scratch Woodford off your list, you should also stop buying Jack, too.
If there’s enough evidence to rule that this happened, that says a lot.
I hope Four Roses doesn’t screw up or I’m about to be out of luck.
just start rotting corn in your tub
No. A company with over a billion dollars in revenue? No, this all seems unlikely: They could easily use all the excess from their profits to support their entire workforce with good wages, and the people in charge of such decisions could still have enough to live in luxury themselves. Why would a company try to suppress the wages of its employees? There's no incentive, and how would they even go about it if, for some strange reason they actually wanted to? It's not like there's a power imbalance between employer and employees.
No, very unlikely, improbable, and doesn't seem like the kind of thing that would or could happen here.
Damn Woodford Rye is my go-to sipping whiskey