The Nation - News from Aug. 21, 1987

The Teamsters’ brewery division chief said his union will sue if the management of Adolph Coors Co. gives the rival AFL-CIO an organizing advantage among brewery employees in Colorado. Charles Klare said at a Washington news conference that Coors management prefers dealing with a weaker AFL-CIO union over the Teamsters, which he said represents more than 100,000 brewery workers nationwide. He accused Coors of helping the AFL-CIO to organize at the brewery in return for the federation’s ending a 10-year national boycott. In Colorado, John Meadows, Coors’ labor negotiator, denied the company was playing favorites with the unions.