Foreign Bud bottles shatter U.S. jobs
The Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics and Allied Workers
International Union (GMP) is urging union families to protest Anheuser-Busch's plan to import
beer bottles from Mexico.
Anheuser-Busch, the maker of the popular Budweiser and Michelob beers, subcontracted to
import beer bottles from a plant in Mexicali, Mexico, where workers reportedly earn between $7
and $11 a day. According to the GMP, the imported bottles will supply the company's three
California breweries.
GMP members rallied outside a San Diego, Calif., area beer distributor recently to "Demand
American Beer in American Bottles."
The GMP is asking union families to call Anheuser-Busch at 1-800-342-5283 and register their
preference for American-made bottles.
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