But Wall Street is exactly how they funnel our money to the rich. It's a casino for the ultra rich. Every time your pension, 401k or stock portfolio loses money it goes to the ultra rich. Because your piddly little investments don't move the markets but their huge ones do. They can make sure your pensions, 401k or stocks perform how they want them to by how they invest their money. And more and more unions and other trustees are playing into it by investing in those plans. Variable and pension should not be in the same sentence - especially when your bills aren't variable and just go up.
@@mbbno ROTFLMAO!!! They don't regulate much of anything - especially the things that make them money. The EPA is in the process of approving a pesticide banned in 100 other countries and has told the people of East Palestine Ohio to basically F off after Norfolk Southern nuked their town, after being told there was no danger, and Norfolk blew up the trains full of chemicals just to open the tracks back up. You've got places pumping out toxins into the air like in Michigan and nothing is being done while people are getting cancer & other diseases. Status Coup is GREAT at these stories that our state run media (aka mainstream media) doesn't report on.
I have never heard of a hedgefund that has done good for anyone. Every story of hedge funds starts with buying a company, cutting jobs, quality, and pay, and ends with lawsuits, strikes, and death.
Add lobbyists and think tanks to that list accelerating the Anthropocene Extinction Event in pursuit of short term profits. Think tanks exist almost entirely for 1 highly specific purpose... So that billionaires have someone to pay who will tell millionaires what to tell the right wing sheeple exactly what to believe.
budweiser is not american owned. inbev the company that owns them also owns 49% of brands on the american market. this is what they should be covering. how almost every product in all of our our stores is owned by 2 companies. this was illegal before reagan. reagan stopped enforcing anti trust laws which opened the gates for companies to buy and own 49% of brands on the market. this means that 2 companies are now allowed own 98% of the brands on the market. this is why we now have legal monoplies that can inflate prices as high as they want. there is no longer any competition. it is unacceptable for foreigners to own all of our businesses and then use that monopoly to screw us. our politicians are paid by these companies to look the other way while their voters get screwed by the greed.
They have written about the monoplies and do. We cannot look at everything so distant and big picture all the time. If we do, we forget that every pixel in that big picture is hundreds of starving people struggling to make do.
What you are describing has a name: Cartel. While America gives lip service to 'anti-monopoly,' it has always loved it's Cartels. Allows the politicians to falsely claim there isn't a monopoly. All while they forget to teach you the meaning of that word: Cartels. Wonder why that is.... If you can't tell from my words, I am really disgusted by all of this, but here is a little bit more to consider. Adam Smith, someone the right claims to champion, was very vocal against the concept of Cartels. To the point that you have to wonder if he was demanding government restrict free speech, when it comes to how Merchants can gather to conspire against the public. No doubt of it, he hated Cartels before we even had a word for it! So.... why is America run by it's Cartels, and has been for decades? Banana Republics existed because of those very US Cartels...!
RIGHT?! They say "If we have more it means we can sell it to you cheaper." Then they go and raise the prices literally because they can. And we as consumers have NO recourse because they own EVERYTHING!!! No competition results in price gouging!!
So many of us are just getting absolutely shafted. How is anyone not going to break in this environment. Rest is so important, being able to have dignity is so important. It’s just insane how cold some people can be.
That's corporate culture/policy taken to its logical conclusion. If it's profitable to allow workers to rest and lead lives of dignity (and in some measures it actually is), then it follows that businesses should allow these things. But it's not profitable in the short term when hedge funds and multimillionaire activist investors want maximum profits (read: maximum ROI) and minimum labor costs on the report. Because the pursuit of money is apathetic to the humans it exploits, management will naturally become cold and apathetic to their fellow human beings because otherwise they would be fired by executives (who would likewise be fired by directors who are selected by the aforementioned hedge funds and activist investors). There may not be a system where global businesses can be run without treating labor with an orphan crushing machine, at least not yet. In the meantime, we have to treat businesses with the same cold apathy that they treat us, because they're certainly not on our side (unless they're a reputable law firm and we hired them-- sad, isn't it, that a business entity has to be _required by law_ to do the right thing?).
Unfortunately, the ultra rich and our politicians don't care. We are being taxed without representation!! And yes, we are being shafted and hopefully more people are paying more attention. But the bad part of that is where are they getting their info? What are they being gaslit into believing? Can they link other things to the monopolies? Critical thinking is sorely lacking in this country. And I agree that people ARE going to break. I don't like, believe in or condone violence but they aren't leaving people much choice. It's also why they are pushing so hard - against the people - to get cop city up and running. They need them for if/when that violence happens. Cop city is going to train our police in urban warfare. The US has become a 💩 hole country unless you're the ultra rich!!!
@@MMuraseofSandvich OMG!!! Thank you soooooo much!!!! This is the most aware post I've EVER read on gaming commentary. I wish more people were aware of this and would care more so maybe we could get something done about it. But that's part of it. Keep us distracted with culture wars that don't affect our lives so we don't pay attention to the policies they are passing that does affect our lives! And that policy benefits the rich, our corrupt AF politicians (who are also rich) and corporations while neglecting the people. Let's agree to disagree on the things we don't agree on & come together on what we do and MAKE our politicians work for us. Or better yet, elect people from the working class instead of the rich, a business owner, political "experience", a celebrity or a pretty face!! We need to stop listening to ads telling us who to vote for and look at what they are voting on and how they are voting on those issues on our own. We're so willfully ignorant here in the US when it comes to politics - which is NOT a team sport and actually affects our lives. NO politician should be able to count on our vote and should have to earn it EVERY time!!
I'm SICK AND TIRED of private equity firms destroying this country. I've had two different very promising careers destroyed by private equity. Every single day I worry that my current job will be gone because of the private equity firm that owns the company that I now work for. This has to stop!
i had my career ruined by other people starting companies offering the same thing cheaper in my city. but non my customers fought for me. they all switched to the cheaper migrant guy. so you do it to others. dont bich when its done to you.
@@SgtJoeSmith So you assume the person you replied to is a migrant? Why? Why didn't you lower your prices rather than go out of business or whatever you did?
I looked all over Sergeant Joe Smith's channel. Hardly anything but a Tronaldian persecution complex there. It figures he'd use foreigners to excuse big private eq's evil ways.
@@ysf-psfx so keep taking a pay cut? Why no one else is offering to take a pay cut to keep their job. I wanted all the companies to unionize and fix prices for higher pay for everyone.
@@SgtJoeSmith its not the reponsibility of customers to keep capitalism in check, that is the government's job. Blaming individuals is the exact rhetoric used by the billionare, lobbyists and hedge fund managers to manipulate you so you don't come after them.
This is pretty much how it is now. We work, they profit. Working class people get nothing while CEOs are making more money than they can spend on a lifetime every year.
I'm still looking for the one who gave shareholders the greenlight to jump ship once that one season comes where the company doesn't smash the previous season's profit records.
@@visceratrocar I get what you're saying. All I'm saying is that she could be earning a good salary. Her son just started at the company and they said he's an apprentice. In another year or two, he'll probably be full time and making a lot more than he is now. The fact that they didn't say what they're making is suspicious. Maybe it would have detracted from the story they're trying to tell?
@@Watch-0w1why does it bother you? It was a great place to work before it got bought out by bigger companies who just want to take from bud and not invest in it at all
@@crematedable but to make your family grow and invest in a company that it not there seem foolish to me. That brand commitment seen crazy. Help your children grow to be more than a Budweiser worker.
Oh hey, that's the Merrimack Brewery like 10 minutes from me. I hope all the workers get a deal they're proud of. This trend of short term profits over long term sustainability is crushing us.
@@lostbutfreesoulEff that! They make lousy beer and act like it's Dom. Are the Tyson chicken-pluckers entitled to run the company? These woke companies need to feel the pain from the consumers, but I doubt the average union worker is smart enough to figure out that actions have consequences.
your content is so polished and well put together and informative, i cant thank you enough for consistently bringing these smaller town issues to light
I have picked up a couple beer loads out of the St. Louis facilities and have been treated well by the hardworking folks there. Much respect for the mother and son in this video.
Thank you for posting this. I am an Anheuser-Busch employee at the Houston Brewery, and everything I just saw resonates with me. I've been there almost 19 years.
maybe it's time to put in a law saying that an industrial level company like AB, UPS, and the like are required to run at full production or meet some production number to get subsidies. Instead of running the bare minimum and claiming there's a down turn....when they're actively forcing a down turn.
Part of the blame for this rest solely with the previous owners who sold the company to a private equity firm knowing what the history and likely outcome would be....... Driven by personal greed for their pockets. The company could have easily in transitioned to an employee-owned company over a 2 to 3 year duration......
Let me try that again, as google ate this message. Something people like us need to consider: Employee owned businesses need to reproduce. I will try not to ramble and lose the message, but the core of it is simple: Profits need to be put aside to purchase/create new *Employee owned* businesses. Those businesses eventually put aside money to create their own businesses, in an expediential growth pattern. This may be the only way to address the real cause of the problem, investors, by creating a secondary system for companies to form that do not require shareholders.
Unfortunately, corporate executives cannot be relied on to transition their companies to employee owned companies instead of selling them to private equity.
Didn't they say this was a hostile take over? Which I believe means they were somehow manipulated or forced into selling? Whatever happened to the laws against monopolies? Too many other countries own or have control of major businesses in the USA. We need new laws to prevent any monopoly, especially for companies that deal in food, medicine, beverages. It's no wonder the average American can no longer get a living wage. I'm sure they're very happy sitting by the ocean sipping cocktails while the average person here can't afford to feed their families. They treat their own country people like trash - they'll happily treat Americans even worse if they can get away with it. In the past year I've seen food prices jump exponentially. What used to cost $8.99 now cost $11 plus change. In ONE YEAR! This can't be allowed to go on. Eventually only the very rich will be able to afford groceries. The rest of us will starve. Food stamps no longer cover a month's groceries. Since my husband passed I'm only feeding one person - no matter how careful I am I can't make the money stretch an entire month. I never was big on junk food or frozen dinners - we always cooked meals from scratch. I only eat one meal a day now. That's fine - I never was a big eater. And I'm a small person - 5 foot 3 and weigh about 115. My husband was 6 foot 5, about 170. I don't think I'd be able to make the money budgeted for food work for 2 people any more. We can't allow other countries to control prices for basic necessities any more. We're already in trouble. I don't see this ending well.
@@HanginInSF guess who had been running Hughes aircraft company for the past 40 years ...the employees...... As an example, Dr Pat Hyland served as the president for 15+ years..... He was one of the 3 USN engineers who created Doppler Radar in a lab..... He came to HAC in Culver City and went to work in the Radio Shop as it was called in the day..... He led the development of it from the lab setting to airborne, space applications...and communications. Howard Hughes himself gave him partial ownership of the company when he made him president. Dr Alan Puckett was next up... Again coming from. Within the company whose research is well known in the community At the end of his term, HAC had annual revenue of $6B and $10B backlog....... 86000 employees, 3000 phd's, 3 research laboratories and 30k contracted staff for a total of 116k people. They had a partnership with UCLA/Anderson School of Business with the Hughes Learning Center staffed by both academia and HAC top execs trained supervisors and managers.....
Sooner rather than later then massive monopoly conglomerates will push towards full robotics and Ai removing the need for any humans. Just ask anyone in IT.
Its funny people hate communism, but at least then everyone is poor together. In capitalism you end up with 1% having all the money. Communism can bring them down with the rest of us. I don’t want more money. I want billionaires to be poor too
I feel it. I was running a machine producing 300,000 dollars profit (I learned the costs per part from a higher up) a day but only getting paid 11.50 an hr. Thats what opened my eyes.
Teamsters union was successful at reaching a tentative deal with Anheuser-Busch! Everyone, if you leave this video with one thing, let it be this: *joining unions works, threatening strikes works.* Teamsters union represents 5000 workers (about 25% of the total), strength is in numbers, especially when backed up by nothing but fairness. Thank you, More Perfect Union, for shining a light on an ongoing situation I would have probably otherwise unfortunately ignored.
Union members and leaders please push to have labor contracts end on May 1st going forward, we just start to align our contracts in a way so we can support each other even greater during strikes.
Thats not strategic for a lot of industries peak season for beer sales might be different than that of hotel workers never mind the existing cba's have expiration dates pre built in and strike funds are budgeted based on that.
Laborers are the back bone of this country. Middlemen are not Whether you brew bear ,or drive a school bus, wages are not compensatory to todays cost of living
every big corporation acts like they care about their employees. Of my 30 year experience working across many fields. Your just another number that can be replaced. The most valuable thing to a company is profits over everything else. No matter what they say.
I wish she would encourage her son to get an education instead of working there. 9 to 12 months. He can be a dental or medical assistant. You'll always be in demand and the more you learn the more you're worth. Best decision my husband and I made. 20 yrs later our boys now work along side us as dental Lab techs. You can become a dental hygienist in 2-3yrs and a full blown general dentist at 4yrs. There are pell grants and payment plans. Some loans don't even go into effect until after you graduate. There are better options. Screw that crappy beer. Let's see what they do when there's no one left to make the beer.
They devalued the dollar too quickly. It was on purpose. Also....people who bitch about wages need to seek other employment. No job is a guarantee of certain life conditions. They're just jobs (except for the politicians anyways). Get a job with a company that doesnt offer stocks and you'll never be held hostage to 'shareholders'.
The beer union is at my local Miller brewery, it’s hilarious because they are standing in front of the semi’s entrance and exit and block the poor semi drivers. Glad they are stopping the sales of alcohol, finally something good.😂😂
It's not owned by Belgian's anymore "Dummy". Owned by BRAZILIAN'S NOW ! So Yeah, Micro Breweries are the way to go but, pay better attention in the future.
My dad generation was one of the last to be able to live the American dream... Started at a mill sweeping floors worked his way all the way up to running an entire division he got paid very well with medical benefits received xmass bonuses 2 weeks paid vacation and to to all that off he got almost 2500 a month in a pension!!!!!I mean is that even a thing today????? How many blue collar workers can say they get all that without a gov job??!
This is the same for every company. We show up to work every day, we work hard and put in majority of our lives to make your shareholders and CEO's rich, least you can do is make the worker's lives comfortable and make it so they don't have to worry.
As a railroader who got railroaded by both sides of the government when it was our turn to fight for a good contract, I applaud the blue collar working class men and women in this country. I can unequivocally understand your frustrations. These mega corporations are and have ruined this country through their greed off our backs. I hope you get the contract you deserve, yet I know how it will end. They will make it look good for the public eye but absolutely rake you over the coals on the backside of the contract. Cheers to the good fight
A team lead in that plant makes over $6,000+ a month. For a high school educated only, that's over $72K a year. That's way more than a junior degreed engineer who doesn't get OT and is expected to work 50 hours+ a week. CRY US A FUCKING RIVER
All these "union" people don't realize that their so called "union" will sell them down the river in a second if they don't pay their dues or step on the wrong toes. This isn't 1974, they're not hand-assembling Pontiacs while smoking a Lucky Strike. Unions protect the lazy (when and if they protect at all).
So sad to watch people congratulating themselves on working a lifetime making someone else rich. The only thing that made it palatable was that they paid you enough to survive on once.
Every time something like this gets suggested I like to post text reminding everybody that George Bush Junior said the corporations are people to and they need to be represented. How’s that working for you because the people of this country are not represented anymore what are you gonna do about it?
Is there any chance of you having a Canadian presence? Your format and delivery is clear and concise, very easy to understand and it’s non confrontational. ❤️🔥🦄
As a former brewery and soft drink worker, it's sad to see the continued job losses and plant closures. If investment firms don't destroy these jobs, automation will
It breaks my heart to see how loyal she is that her family has spent three generations getting ripped off. I hope they strike and take everything. ✊🏽Solidarity Forever✊🏽
We need to vote in office more politicians like Bernie Sanders, Katie Porter and Elizabeth Warren who call out this kind of corporate bad behavior. I know of no republican politician that will do that and unfortunately there are also still some corporate Democrats. Progressives are leading the way on this, not Republicans and certainly not MAGA or Trump who lie about being for the working man when all they did was tax breaks for the rich.
Our entire lives are defined by the way we sacrifice ourselves, bequeathing our fleeting time, to allow the tiniest sliver of our society to live lives of extreme super luxury. What a waste of the rarest things in the universe. Disgisting...
I worked as an air traffic controller in Kazakhstan Almaty, tower control, out of 12 hour shift, the working hours are 8 hours, the actual hours spent on station 4 hours, 40 minutes work, 40 minutes rest. 60 days paid vacation, 1 month yearly vacation like assignnent to Prague or London. And guys it was all the legacy of Soviet Union
To be fair your paid what your worth brewing trash doesn’t mean you should get paid more your openly admitting you make a mistake in every batch with it tasting like that 😂
I always view advertisements with the same big bucket of salt, because they are a creation of marketing, the same profession that sold tobacco to Americans (and continues to do so throughout the world) by saying that cigarettes are "healthy". No corporation on the planet is going to shout to the world how much they appreciate their workforce and how much they pay the lowest-paid workers, not in a market where this is viewed as "They're not competitive! Sell their shares now!" I don't buy AB drinks, to my knowledge anyway, but I wish the Teamsters as much success as they can extract from management. The UAW, SAG-AFTRA, and WGA showed us all that labor can win big, and that they _ought to_ win big.
Starving, but she had $1k+ for a wheel and tire package for her vehicle. I'm tired of the sob stories from people that are poor at managing their money.
I spent a little time on a project at Budweiser in Fairfield CA awhile back. What a bunch of A-holes there in management. I was glad to get off that project.
Look at In-N-Out Hamburger chain. It's a private company, has good products and pays their employees fair. If they ever sold out to Wall Street, quality and pricing would not be good.
I worked for a Budweiser distributor for 14 years and didn't get a pay raise for the last 7 years as management, That's why I left in 2006. it's gotten much worse since I left as my friends have told me that still work there.
Turbo taxes $80 fee in order to receive the retirement saving credit for low income earners who are saving for retirement. My fiancèe is a teacher and I was helping her with filling out her tax return through Turbo Tax. She qualified for this credit, but Turbo Tax was going to charge her an $80 fee in order to receive the credit.
The corporate greed in this country is beyond words, profits before people can't be allowed to become the norm of manufacturing and business in this country, If wages are not enough to live on, what's the point of working at all? Then who is going to buy the products that make these corporations their profits?
Golds gym That’s where my boyfriend works. Currently he doesn’t make a lot he’s not the CEO he works and pays rent and bills and everything else and he lives with other people he has three college degrees and real estate license
We are headed towards a modern day gilded age in the next few decades. People who work honest, full time jobs barely make enough money from their massively profitable employers, so they go into massive debt or become homeless. This is the near future.
You decide to go work there. MolsonCoors in Montreal once offered me a job... when they told me the salary, I said thanks but no thanks. If you think you will get someone who has a food process collegial diploma working rotation for 16$ per hour, forget it. Went into dairy for 10$ per hour more out of the gate.
As some that hauls out of Budweiser plants over the last 30 years things like this video makes the drivers have to wait longer without having the plants work as well and having people become temps does not help as well.
I live in st.louis where the headquarters is and they're so big the building was in the way and the city just built the highway around the building. They get whatever they want
If we didn't have Wall Street laying bets on our damn lives we'd be far better off.
But Wall Street is exactly how they funnel our money to the rich. It's a casino for the ultra rich. Every time your pension, 401k or stock portfolio loses money it goes to the ultra rich. Because your piddly little investments don't move the markets but their huge ones do. They can make sure your pensions, 401k or stocks perform how they want them to by how they invest their money. And more and more unions and other trustees are playing into it by investing in those plans. Variable and pension should not be in the same sentence - especially when your bills aren't variable and just go up.
End Wall Street.
That or more heavily regulate it.
@@mbbnoit was well regulated but over the last 40 years or so it has been slowly deregulated.
@@mbbno ROTFLMAO!!! They don't regulate much of anything - especially the things that make them money. The EPA is in the process of approving a pesticide banned in 100 other countries and has told the people of East Palestine Ohio to basically F off after Norfolk Southern nuked their town, after being told there was no danger, and Norfolk blew up the trains full of chemicals just to open the tracks back up. You've got places pumping out toxins into the air like in Michigan and nothing is being done while people are getting cancer & other diseases. Status Coup is GREAT at these stories that our state run media (aka mainstream media) doesn't report on.
I have never heard of a hedgefund that has done good for anyone.
Every story of hedge funds starts with buying a company, cutting jobs, quality, and pay, and ends with lawsuits, strikes, and death.
it does lots of good for the billionaire shareholders and ceo's
@@ohiasdxfcghbljokasdjhnfvaw4ehr how could I ever forget that feel good story lol.
@@ohiasdxfcghbljokasdjhnfvaw4ehr
Sure we destroyed the world, but for one glorious moment.....
Add lobbyists and think tanks to that list accelerating the Anthropocene Extinction Event in pursuit of short term profits.
Think tanks exist almost entirely for 1 highly specific purpose... So that billionaires have someone to pay who will tell millionaires what to tell the right wing sheeple exactly what to believe.
death…lastly slavery.
budweiser is not american owned. inbev the company that owns them also owns 49% of brands on the american market. this is what they should be covering. how almost every product in all of our our stores is owned by 2 companies. this was illegal before reagan. reagan stopped enforcing anti trust laws which opened the gates for companies to buy and own 49% of brands on the market. this means that 2 companies are now allowed own 98% of the brands on the market. this is why we now have legal monoplies that can inflate prices as high as they want. there is no longer any competition. it is unacceptable for foreigners to own all of our businesses and then use that monopoly to screw us. our politicians are paid by these companies to look the other way while their voters get screwed by the greed.
This is the *real* story!
They have written about the monoplies and do.
We cannot look at everything so distant and big picture all the time. If we do, we forget that every pixel in that big picture is hundreds of starving people struggling to make do.
What you are describing has a name:
Cartel.
While America gives lip service to 'anti-monopoly,' it has always loved it's Cartels. Allows the politicians to falsely claim there isn't a monopoly. All while they forget to teach you the meaning of that word: Cartels. Wonder why that is....
If you can't tell from my words, I am really disgusted by all of this, but here is a little bit more to consider. Adam Smith, someone the right claims to champion, was very vocal against the concept of Cartels. To the point that you have to wonder if he was demanding government restrict free speech, when it comes to how Merchants can gather to conspire against the public.
No doubt of it, he hated Cartels before we even had a word for it!
So.... why is America run by it's Cartels, and has been for decades?
Banana Republics existed because of those very US Cartels...!
RIGHT?! They say "If we have more it means we can sell it to you cheaper." Then they go and raise the prices literally because they can. And we as consumers have NO recourse because they own EVERYTHING!!! No competition results in price gouging!!
All American issue lead back to Ronald reagan
I applaud that brave woman. Thank you for speaking out.
So many of us are just getting absolutely shafted. How is anyone not going to break in this environment. Rest is so important, being able to have dignity is so important. It’s just insane how cold some people can be.
That's corporate culture/policy taken to its logical conclusion. If it's profitable to allow workers to rest and lead lives of dignity (and in some measures it actually is), then it follows that businesses should allow these things. But it's not profitable in the short term when hedge funds and multimillionaire activist investors want maximum profits (read: maximum ROI) and minimum labor costs on the report.
Because the pursuit of money is apathetic to the humans it exploits, management will naturally become cold and apathetic to their fellow human beings because otherwise they would be fired by executives (who would likewise be fired by directors who are selected by the aforementioned hedge funds and activist investors).
There may not be a system where global businesses can be run without treating labor with an orphan crushing machine, at least not yet. In the meantime, we have to treat businesses with the same cold apathy that they treat us, because they're certainly not on our side (unless they're a reputable law firm and we hired them-- sad, isn't it, that a business entity has to be _required by law_ to do the right thing?).
Unfortunately, the ultra rich and our politicians don't care. We are being taxed without representation!! And yes, we are being shafted and hopefully more people are paying more attention. But the bad part of that is where are they getting their info? What are they being gaslit into believing? Can they link other things to the monopolies? Critical thinking is sorely lacking in this country. And I agree that people ARE going to break. I don't like, believe in or condone violence but they aren't leaving people much choice. It's also why they are pushing so hard - against the people - to get cop city up and running. They need them for if/when that violence happens. Cop city is going to train our police in urban warfare. The US has become a 💩 hole country unless you're the ultra rich!!!
@@MMuraseofSandvich OMG!!! Thank you soooooo much!!!! This is the most aware post I've EVER read on gaming commentary. I wish more people were aware of this and would care more so maybe we could get something done about it.
But that's part of it. Keep us distracted with culture wars that don't affect our lives so we don't pay attention to the policies they are passing that does affect our lives! And that policy benefits the rich, our corrupt AF politicians (who are also rich) and corporations while neglecting the people.
Let's agree to disagree on the things we don't agree on & come together on what we do and MAKE our politicians work for us. Or better yet, elect people from the working class instead of the rich, a business owner, political "experience", a celebrity or a pretty face!! We need to stop listening to ads telling us who to vote for and look at what they are voting on and how they are voting on those issues on our own. We're so willfully ignorant here in the US when it comes to politics - which is NOT a team sport and actually affects our lives. NO politician should be able to count on our vote and should have to earn it EVERY time!!
You’re breaking down doesn’t hurt the 1% directly and any indirect injury is diluted by the amount of workers in the working class.
All wage workers are getting shafted
I'm SICK AND TIRED of private equity firms destroying this country. I've had two different very promising careers destroyed by private equity. Every single day I worry that my current job will be gone because of the private equity firm that owns the company that I now work for. This has to stop!
i had my career ruined by other people starting companies offering the same thing cheaper in my city. but non my customers fought for me. they all switched to the cheaper migrant guy. so you do it to others. dont bich when its done to you.
@@SgtJoeSmith So you assume the person you replied to is a migrant? Why? Why didn't you lower your prices rather than go out of business or whatever you did?
I looked all over Sergeant Joe Smith's channel. Hardly anything but a Tronaldian persecution complex there. It figures he'd use foreigners to excuse big private eq's evil ways.
@@ysf-psfx so keep taking a pay cut? Why no one else is offering to take a pay cut to keep their job. I wanted all the companies to unionize and fix prices for higher pay for everyone.
@@SgtJoeSmith its not the reponsibility of customers to keep capitalism in check, that is the government's job. Blaming individuals is the exact rhetoric used by the billionare, lobbyists and hedge fund managers to manipulate you so you don't come after them.
This is pretty much how it is now. We work, they profit. Working class people get nothing while CEOs are making more money than they can spend on a lifetime every year.
I'm still looking for the one who gave shareholders the greenlight to jump ship once that one season comes where the company doesn't smash the previous season's profit records.
But you don't know how much she's actually getting. She didn't say. You have no idea if she's getting "nothing."
@@Primetime94 You're being overly literal. And you chose to completely miss my point.
@@visceratrocar I get what you're saying. All I'm saying is that she could be earning a good salary. Her son just started at the company and they said he's an apprentice. In another year or two, he'll probably be full time and making a lot more than he is now. The fact that they didn't say what they're making is suspicious. Maybe it would have detracted from the story they're trying to tell?
@@Primetime94 Again, you're being overly literal. No one else made the conclusion you did. Chill the hell out.
Sad , I can relate as a factory worker , just a number , retired and have nothing .
And they would take your Social Security away from you now
What part that bother me is that she said she put three generational family to work in that company and she proud about it.
@@Watch-0w1why does it bother you? It was a great place to work before it got bought out by bigger companies who just want to take from bud and not invest in it at all
@@crematedable but to make your family grow and invest in a company that it not there seem foolish to me.
That brand commitment seen crazy. Help your children grow to be more than a Budweiser worker.
The working class need to get fairdinkum and join up to the labour movement and demand more benifets and higher wages.
Brave and beautiful mother.
Oh hey, that's the Merrimack Brewery like 10 minutes from me. I hope all the workers get a deal they're proud of. This trend of short term profits over long term sustainability is crushing us.
Can you do us all a favour?
Go over to the plant and thank those workers, show them the public supports our workers.
@@lostbutfreesoulPlease show your appreciation by BEING PRO-LABOR UNION, OK ?!
@@lostbutfreesoulEff that! They make lousy beer and act like it's Dom. Are the Tyson chicken-pluckers entitled to run the company?
These woke companies need to feel the pain from the consumers, but I doubt the average union worker is smart enough to figure out that actions have consequences.
@@nicholausbuthmann1421 Work HARDER at the job instead of harder to avoid work altogether.
your content is so polished and well put together and informative, i cant thank you enough for consistently bringing these smaller town issues to light
please keep these videos coming. Its a great way to see behind the scenes and shed light to these struggles people endure behind closed doors.
Buy a car so you can go to Work to go to Work to buy a car .
I owe my soul to the company store
I agree with your intent but, you're not helping the situation by not promoting the UNION.
@@nicholausbuthmann1421 I paid dues for 45 Year's .
joke's on me i can't even afford a new car, driving a 20yr old gas guzzler and spend 2hours of pay in gasoline to commute 😢
@@MissyMuthaTruckiN Hell I'm taking the Bus ! 🤓🤣
I applaud your determination to fight for better living.
We Americans live to work bit it SHOULD be we work to live well
I have picked up a couple beer loads out of the St. Louis facilities and have been treated well by the hardworking folks there. Much respect for the mother and son in this video.
Solidarity with the union. Union strong.
What a really fucking cool mother.
That’s not cool to her.
@@rickswing8723huh?
She IS a really fucking cool mother. I had the privilege of working with her, and I learned so much from her.
We need actual full-time jobs that can support families.
Support American people.
Thank you for posting this. I am an Anheuser-Busch employee at the Houston Brewery, and everything I just saw resonates with me. I've been there almost 19 years.
Her arms are impressive! Strong momma!
I wish parents were fairly compensated for raising safe independent humans.
Can you do a story on the worker's union at Harley Davidson?
Harley riders are the biggest traitors in the country. Trump MAGA fools. Flag waving fools who have no idea how the world works.
maybe it's time to put in a law saying that an industrial level company like AB, UPS, and the like are required to run at full production or meet some production number to get subsidies. Instead of running the bare minimum and claiming there's a down turn....when they're actively forcing a down turn.
Government should stay out of private business
Part of the blame for this rest solely with the previous owners who sold the company to a private equity firm knowing what the history and likely outcome would be....... Driven by personal greed for their pockets. The company could have easily in transitioned to an employee-owned company over a 2 to 3 year duration......
Let me try that again, as google ate this message.
Something people like us need to consider:
Employee owned businesses need to reproduce.
I will try not to ramble and lose the message, but the core of it is simple: Profits need to be put aside to purchase/create new *Employee owned* businesses. Those businesses eventually put aside money to create their own businesses, in an expediential growth pattern. This may be the only way to address the real cause of the problem, investors, by creating a secondary system for companies to form that do not require shareholders.
Unfortunately, corporate executives cannot be relied on to transition their companies to employee owned companies instead of selling them to private equity.
Didn't they say this was a hostile take over? Which I believe means they were somehow manipulated or forced into selling?
Whatever happened to the laws against monopolies?
Too many other countries own or have control of major businesses in the USA. We need new laws to prevent any monopoly, especially for companies that deal in food, medicine, beverages. It's no wonder the average American can no longer get a living wage.
I'm sure they're very happy sitting by the ocean sipping cocktails while the average person here can't afford to feed their families. They treat their own country people like trash - they'll happily treat Americans even worse if they can get away with it.
In the past year I've seen food prices jump exponentially. What used to cost $8.99 now cost $11 plus change. In ONE YEAR!
This can't be allowed to go on. Eventually only the very rich will be able to afford groceries. The rest of us will starve. Food stamps no longer cover a month's groceries.
Since my husband passed I'm only feeding one person - no matter how careful I am I can't make the money stretch an entire month. I never was big on junk food or frozen dinners - we always cooked meals from scratch. I only eat one meal a day now.
That's fine - I never was a big eater. And I'm a small person - 5 foot 3 and weigh about 115.
My husband was 6 foot 5, about 170. I don't think I'd be able to make the money budgeted for food work for 2 people any more.
We can't allow other countries to control prices for basic necessities any more. We're already in trouble. I don't see this ending well.
Employees don't have the skills to run a company. It would fold within 2 years.
@@HanginInSF guess who had been running Hughes aircraft company for the past 40 years ...the employees...... As an example, Dr Pat Hyland served as the president for 15+ years..... He was one of the 3 USN engineers who created Doppler Radar in a lab..... He came to HAC in Culver City and went to work in the Radio Shop as it was called in the day..... He led the development of it from the lab setting to airborne, space applications...and communications. Howard Hughes himself gave him partial ownership of the company when he made him president. Dr Alan Puckett was next up... Again coming from. Within the company whose research is well known in the community At the end of his term, HAC had annual revenue of $6B and $10B backlog....... 86000 employees, 3000 phd's, 3 research laboratories and 30k contracted staff for a total of 116k people.
They had a partnership with UCLA/Anderson School of Business with the Hughes Learning Center staffed by both academia and HAC top execs trained supervisors and managers.....
Sooner rather than later then massive monopoly conglomerates will push towards full robotics and Ai removing the need for any humans. Just ask anyone in IT.
When Company A buys Company B, Company A wants that money back. And who pays for that? The workers.
Its funny people hate communism, but at least then everyone is poor together. In capitalism you end up with 1% having all the money. Communism can bring them down with the rest of us. I don’t want more money. I want billionaires to be poor too
I feel it. I was running a machine producing 300,000 dollars profit (I learned the costs per part from a higher up) a day but only getting paid 11.50 an hr. Thats what opened my eyes.
Crazy how back inthe day, before my time even, to work for those big prestigious companies was an aspiration. Now its more likely the worst.
Teamsters union was successful at reaching a tentative deal with Anheuser-Busch!
Everyone, if you leave this video with one thing, let it be this:
*joining unions works, threatening strikes works.*
Teamsters union represents 5000 workers (about 25% of the total), strength is in numbers, especially when backed up by nothing but fairness.
Thank you, More Perfect Union, for shining a light on an ongoing situation I would have probably otherwise unfortunately ignored.
O.K the union makes a deal & the workers get a bump in salary. So the Corporations just raise the price of the product. How does this help?
What about bud light debacle of hiring a trans person and tanking their sales?
@@The14Hill apparently you do?
@@The14Hill I wasn't talking to you. But you want to bark back to me about?
I'm a Teamster, we should've gotten more, the increase we got is far superseded by inflation.
My best wishes to the workers. I hope they get the best outcome they can.
Union members and leaders please push to have labor contracts end on May 1st going forward, we just start to align our contracts in a way so we can support each other even greater during strikes.
Thats not strategic for a lot of industries peak season for beer sales might be different than that of hotel workers never mind the existing cba's have expiration dates pre built in and strike funds are budgeted based on that.
@@griffinemerson8475I am suggesting May day in the hopes of a general strike or group bargaining with more unions united like Kaiser P health workers.
Happy to hear her story. Thank you for sharing.
This is great coverage! Go TEAMSTERS
Laborers are the back bone of this country.
Middlemen are not
Whether you brew bear ,or drive a school bus, wages are not compensatory to todays cost of living
YES!!! Solidarity in America!! LET’S ROLL!!
Construction workers used to support families too and now I can barely handle my bills.
Crap beer and crap wages.
Another great video! Google is trying hard to crush the channel but you guys keep putting out great work.
Welcome to the new world my freind..., compliments of Corporate America...
every big corporation acts like they care about their employees. Of my 30 year experience working across many fields. Your just another number that can be replaced. The most valuable thing to a company is profits over everything else. No matter what they say.
The personal stories is what we need more of. So many workers from around the world can relate. Keep up the great journalism ya’ll ❤️
I agree we need to go back to where 1 parent can work and support a family of 5, the greed is outrageous
Those days are far gone
It's almost like the king of beers is a person.
"Back to work peasants! The king of beers commands you!"
I wish she would encourage her son to get an education instead of working there. 9 to 12 months. He can be a dental or medical assistant. You'll always be in demand and the more you learn the more you're worth. Best decision my husband and I made. 20 yrs later our boys now work along side us as dental Lab techs. You can become a dental hygienist in 2-3yrs and a full blown general dentist at 4yrs. There are pell grants and payment plans. Some loans don't even go into effect until after you graduate. There are better options. Screw that crappy beer. Let's see what they do when there's no one left to make the beer.
They devalued the dollar too quickly. It was on purpose. Also....people who bitch about wages need to seek other employment. No job is a guarantee of certain life conditions. They're just jobs (except for the politicians anyways). Get a job with a company that doesnt offer stocks and you'll never be held hostage to 'shareholders'.
Inbev owns Budweiser! Inbev pretty much owns all the drinks in the world
When unhappy, vote with your feet.
Be union, stay strong. Your always better union that a scab, people will have your back and support you! Proud blet member here!
I hate private equity firms.
We stand with you here at the Houston brewery. Stay strong! "No Contract No Beer"
That beer is awful but I did keep some Bud Light around for a while to make my T Rump fans go crazy.
I stopped supporting Anheuser-Busch and all of its products several years ago. I will vote with my dollars. Utica Club!
And there are people that don’t support unions….
Let that sink in.
………….
I've been in 2 unions in my life and 1 was great and the other was total dog sh!t......so to blindly support unions just because is foolish at best
Unfortunately it takes around $35.00 an hour to have any kind of life nowadays, nobody wants to pay that, your not the only ones having a hard time
The beer union is at my local Miller brewery, it’s hilarious because they are standing in front of the semi’s entrance and exit and block the poor semi drivers. Glad they are stopping the sales of alcohol, finally something good.😂😂
The "American" beer owned by a Belgian corporate. It's domestic swill. Buy real American beer from microbreweries.
Correct. It's so bad that the Germans have a name for it: Pisswasser. Buy microbrewed beer, indeed!
All yank beer is trash. 3.2 fools.
It's not owned by Belgian's anymore "Dummy". Owned by BRAZILIAN'S NOW ! So Yeah, Micro Breweries are the way to go but, pay better attention in the future.
This is a video about people, human lives being destroyed. How can you be promoting beer right now?
My dad generation was one of the last to be able to live the American dream... Started at a mill sweeping floors worked his way all the way up to running an entire division he got paid very well with medical benefits received xmass bonuses 2 weeks paid vacation and to to all that off he got almost 2500 a month in a pension!!!!!I mean is that even a thing today????? How many blue collar workers can say they get all that without a gov job??!
At least they're historically accurate.
Private equity is a destroyer. A few benefit and many suffer.
Unionize, we cant do it as an individual. Unions is what built the middle class, support unions, their is real power in unity.
THERE IS A POWER IN A UNION.💪
This is the same for every company. We show up to work every day, we work hard and put in majority of our lives to make your shareholders and CEO's rich, least you can do is make the worker's lives comfortable and make it so they don't have to worry.
As a railroader who got railroaded by both sides of the government when it was our turn to fight for a good contract, I applaud the blue collar working class men and women in this country. I can unequivocally understand your frustrations. These mega corporations are and have ruined this country through their greed off our backs. I hope you get the contract you deserve, yet I know how it will end. They will make it look good for the public eye but absolutely rake you over the coals on the backside of the contract. Cheers to the good fight
A team lead in that plant makes over $6,000+ a month. For a high school educated only, that's over $72K a year. That's way more than a junior degreed engineer who doesn't get OT and is expected to work 50 hours+ a week. CRY US A FUCKING RIVER
All these "union" people don't realize that their so called "union" will sell them down the river in a second if they don't pay their dues or step on the wrong toes. This isn't 1974, they're not hand-assembling Pontiacs while smoking a Lucky Strike. Unions protect the lazy (when and if they protect at all).
Dam this woman and workers deserve better anyone working for these companies deserve better
Man that hits hard
i know a lot of alcoholics who could use the break. lot of broken old men who find temporary solace in those cans
So sad to watch people congratulating themselves on working a lifetime making someone else rich. The only thing that made it palatable was that they paid you enough to survive on once.
Every time something like this gets suggested I like to post text reminding everybody that George Bush Junior said the corporations are people to and they need to be represented. How’s that working for you because the people of this country are not represented anymore what are you gonna do about it?
Is there any chance of you having a Canadian presence? Your format and delivery is clear and concise, very easy to understand and it’s non confrontational. ❤️🔥🦄
As a former brewery and soft drink worker, it's sad to see the continued job losses and plant closures. If investment firms don't destroy these jobs, automation will
Barely can be called beer.
Remember though all the hard times you've endured, every C.E.O./C.F.O. has kept their $50 million + a year salary.
It breaks my heart to see how loyal she is that her family has spent three generations getting ripped off. I hope they strike and take everything.
✊🏽Solidarity Forever✊🏽
We've been warned for at least half a century where we were going. Most of us chose to stick our fingers in our ears and buy the sales pitch.
"I work for the king, but I get paid like a peasant." - 6:55
Poignant. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
We need to vote in office more politicians like Bernie Sanders, Katie Porter and Elizabeth Warren who call out this kind of corporate bad behavior. I know of no republican politician that will do that and unfortunately there are also still some corporate Democrats. Progressives are leading the way on this, not Republicans and certainly not MAGA or Trump who lie about being for the working man when all they did was tax breaks for the rich.
Yes yes yes. Come to progressive portland oregon and all your problems will be solved.
Our entire lives are defined by the way we sacrifice ourselves, bequeathing our fleeting time, to allow the tiniest sliver of our society to live lives of extreme super luxury.
What a waste of the rarest things in the universe. Disgisting...
I worked as an air traffic controller in Kazakhstan Almaty, tower control, out of 12 hour shift, the working hours are 8 hours, the actual hours spent on station 4 hours, 40 minutes work, 40 minutes rest. 60 days paid vacation, 1 month yearly vacation like assignnent to Prague or London. And guys it was all the legacy of Soviet Union
I feel for the workers, but lets me honest, budweiser is a fairly shit beer....
Support local and employee owned breweries
unions in NH..... they need more
To be fair your paid what your worth brewing trash doesn’t mean you should get paid more your openly admitting you make a mistake in every batch with it tasting like that 😂
I always view advertisements with the same big bucket of salt, because they are a creation of marketing, the same profession that sold tobacco to Americans (and continues to do so throughout the world) by saying that cigarettes are "healthy". No corporation on the planet is going to shout to the world how much they appreciate their workforce and how much they pay the lowest-paid workers, not in a market where this is viewed as "They're not competitive! Sell their shares now!"
I don't buy AB drinks, to my knowledge anyway, but I wish the Teamsters as much success as they can extract from management. The UAW, SAG-AFTRA, and WGA showed us all that labor can win big, and that they _ought to_ win big.
Starving, but she had $1k+ for a wheel and tire package for her vehicle. I'm tired of the sob stories from people that are poor at managing their money.
I spent a little time on a project at Budweiser in Fairfield CA awhile back. What a bunch of A-holes there in management. I was glad to get off that project.
Look at In-N-Out Hamburger chain. It's a private company, has good products and pays their employees fair. If they ever sold out to Wall Street, quality and pricing would not be good.
I worked for a Budweiser distributor for 14 years and didn't get a pay raise for the last 7 years as management, That's why I left in 2006. it's gotten much worse since I left as my friends have told me that still work there.
Solidarity ❤
Its always the sympathetic front that all companies put forward while they have plants full of unhappy workers that are struggling.
Turbo taxes $80 fee in order to receive the retirement saving credit for low income earners who are saving for retirement. My fiancèe is a teacher and I was helping her with filling out her tax return through Turbo Tax. She qualified for this credit, but Turbo Tax was going to charge her an $80 fee in order to receive the credit.
IRS has free filing options - look for them at IRS.gov stop paying Turbo Tax and HR Block and the rest.
The corporate greed in this country is beyond words, profits before people can't be allowed to become the norm of manufacturing and business in this country, If wages are not enough to live on, what's the point of working at all? Then who is going to buy the products that make these corporations their profits?
Strike on! Without collective bargaining workers would have no rights and the eight hour workday would not exist.
I would date this lady. Maybe I can be her son's step dad? ❤ You never know.
Golds gym That’s where my boyfriend works. Currently he doesn’t make a lot he’s not the CEO he works and pays rent and bills and everything else and he lives with other people he has three college degrees and real estate license
We are headed towards a modern day gilded age in the next few decades. People who work honest, full time jobs barely make enough money from their massively profitable employers, so they go into massive debt or become homeless. This is the near future.
I'd like to see an episode on different kinds of CO-OPs and how the different kinds of companies compare.
You decide to go work there. MolsonCoors in Montreal once offered me a job... when they told me the salary, I said thanks but no thanks. If you think you will get someone who has a food process collegial diploma working rotation for 16$ per hour, forget it. Went into dairy for 10$ per hour more out of the gate.
As some that hauls out of Budweiser plants over the last 30 years things like this video makes the drivers have to wait longer without having the plants work as well and having people become temps does not help as well.
Budweiser is not the king of beers, it's a slogan they made up for marketing.
What!? Then who rules over Beerlandia!?
I live in st.louis where the headquarters is and they're so big the building was in the way and the city just built the highway around the building. They get whatever they want