lithuanian courts declare beer "an essential service"

[the last donut of the night]

Brewery transnational Carlsberg is attacking trade union rights in Lithuania with the support of the country's legal system, which has declared beer production an "essential service".
On June 10 last year members of the IUF-affiliated Lithuanian Trade Union of Food Producers (LPMS) voted in favour of strike action at the Carlsberg brewery in Lithuania in support of their demand for a decent company-level collective agreement.
Management sought to stop the strike and applied to the court with a petition to declare the strike ballot procedure invalid and the strike illegal, and demanded compensation for litigation costs. The company not only tried to stop the strike and declare it illegal but also argued that no strike action was possible until the "high season" had passed.

http://www.beerworkers.org/blog/carlsbergs-attacks-trade-union-rights-supported-lithuanian-court-decision-declare-beer-essentia

kinda funny but not really

[danyboy27]

wow i really didnt expected something that stupid, especially after the us governement declared that pizza was a vegetable i was pretty sure the bottom was hit.

[The Young Pioneer]

^ Beer is an essential food group, as is pizza.

[danyboy27]

drinking beer, its like drinking bread!

[Arlekino]

Of course my motherland Lithuania neo liberals policies, no communist movement allowed, Socialism is in the dark. Is right wing government screwed country.

[Ocean Seal]

And yet no mention of vodka the truly revolutionary beverage.

[Aleenik]

wow i really didnt expected something that stupid, especially after the us governement declared that pizza was a vegetable i was pretty sure the bottom was hit.Pizza was never declared a vegetable by the US government.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/did-congress-declare-pizza-as-a-vegetable-not-exactly/2011/11/20/gIQABXgmhN_blog.html

[Princess Luna]

:D<- my reaction when I read the title
:(<- my reaction when I read the article

[danyboy27]

Pizza was never declared a vegetable by the US government.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/did-congress-declare-pizza-as-a-vegetable-not-exactly/2011/11/20/gIQABXgmhN_blog.html

Its actually worst than what i initially heard. I mean, really? tomato pasta in a pizza is considered a serving of vegetable? are you fucking kidding me?

[danyboy27]

and of course no free beer.

[Prometeo liberado]

Pizza was never declared a vegetable by the US government.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/did-congress-declare-pizza-as-a-vegetable-not-exactly/2011/11/20/gIQABXgmhN_blog.html
Your head was declared a vegetable.:laugh:....bu...bu..by the U.S. government.

Sorry, couldn't control myself.:(

[Pretty Flaco]

beer and hotdogs are the only food groups