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30th May 2004
TROUBLE BREWING AT CARIB
Having decided to lockout 900 workers, including all its technicians who do the brewing, Carib is now in serious trouble brewing any beer at all.
All ready, production of those drinks that are brewed under an international licence have stopped. This includes the popular Smirnoff, Carlsberg and Guinness lines.
Reports reaching locked-out workers from inside the plant are only a limited amount of Stag and Carib are being produced and no soft drinks like Shandy and Malta.
Speaking from the picket line, Carl. St. Rose, the President of the Carib Section of the NUGFW, said:
“It is clear that production of almost all Carib products is about zero. They are struggling to produce limited quantities of Stag and Carib but that is about all as far as we can tell. Whether this is up to the normal quality is seems unlikely because all the skilled workers who produce the beer have been locked-out.”
Carib locked-out its workers last Monday (24th May) after only two meetings at the Ministry of Labour on wages negotiations.
Whilst the NUGFW met the Minister last Thursday (27th May) the employers have refused to meet until 2nd June.
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