Tag: beer
About to buy beer? Avoid these Carlton brands
Posted by John, July 22nd, 2016 - under Workers.
Tags: beer, Carton United Breweries, Fighting back
Comments: 1
You can support the 55 sacked workers (CUB sacked them to cut their wages 65%) by:
1. Sending the company a message demanding the immediate reinstatement of the workers here: https://www.iufcampaigns.org/campaigns/show_campaign.cgi…
2. Signing the petition calling on SABMiller boss Ari Mervis to intervene and reinstate the workers here: https://www.megaphone.org.au/p…/reinstate-sacked-cub-workers
3. Boycotting C.U.B. products until the workers are reinstated. You can find a list of their brands here: https://www.etuvic.com.au/content/cub-workers
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Woolworths, ANZAC Day and taking the (Carlton & United Breweries) piss
Posted by John, April 15th, 2015 - under Woolworths.
Tags: ANZAC day, beer
Comments: 3
It is so good to see that, rather than fresh food, ANZAC Day is reserved for traditional things like getting pissed on VB, with all those Carlton & United Breweries ads to remind us of the link between grog and killing Johnny Turks for King and Empire, Thus does Anzac Day fall prey to the vultures of capitalism. What irony that ANZAC Day itself remembers an imperialist war in which workers from all sides sacrificed themselves for the very people today unleashing the profanities of Woolworths and CUB against the supposed ideals (but not the reality) of the day. There is a logic that is unrelenting to this marketisation of one of Australian capitalism’s holiest days.
It’s not all beer and cigars
Posted by John, May 15th, 2014 - under Uncategorised.
Tags: beer, Budget, Budget cuts, Cigarettes, Cigars
Comments: 5
‘Let them eat cake’ can’t be too far away.
ANZAC Day – what’s beer got to do with it?
Posted by Bill, April 19th, 2009 - under Uncategorised.
Tags: ANZAC day, beer
Comments: 4
Does Carlton United Brewery own Anzac Day? Its advertisements link drinking VB to the day. What’s beer got to do with killing men in foreign countries for King and Empire? Presumably those scarred by the reality of war think beer (and other alcohol, and drugs, not just VB) will help them to forget. So they are replacing one horror with […]