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Proof-Variation7005 t1_jdcxjdj wrote

It's kinda weird to see teamsters demonized and not the companies they happen to be working for. I guess the rah-rah pro-union sentiment has a limit on this sub?

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beerisgreatPA OP t1_jdd0ni2 wrote

This is not an attack at the teamsters as an organization. That being said, this is a move not to protect jobs this is them trying to keep the status quo. these distro operations are TEENY TINY compared to the three big distributors, who btw are in on this with them, again not to protect jobs.

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This is about an industry (craft Beer) that is growing faster in Rhode Island than the national average and is hiring people left and right to keep up.

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Proof-Variation7005 t1_jdd3cfu wrote

>This is not an attack at the teamsters as an organization.

You singled them out pretty specifically without any sourcing and, frankly, in defiance of basic logic that says the lobbying arm most likely to push for something like this is the actual distribution companies.

This might have been not your intention, but it's what you did.

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beerisgreatPA OP t1_jdd4m0j wrote

I mean they proposed the bill. Testified with the distributor lobbyist in favor of it. No issue with them before that, bill goes away, no issue with them again. Its a direct attack on the brewing industry and its viability and the jobs and livelihoods of hundreds of Rhode island residents.

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