Anchor Brewing, Workers at Odds Ahead of Union Vote

The new owners of San Francisco’s historic Anchor Brewing Co. probably didn’t foresee the current state of things when they got rid of a free beer perk for employees.

Workers at the iconic brewery, which produced the first domestic India pale ale, are on the verge of a vote that could establish one of the first unions at a craft brewery in the U.S. They’ve said this past week that the end of the privilege to drink a free beer at lunch or between shifts was one among a number of other, more serious cuts to their benefits that motivated ...