IBT wants Tariffs on Mexican Beer

[OT+]

[WTF891]

It's not the Mexican beers that are kicking their asses it's the craft beers that frankly are better that that shit Bud, Miller, and Coors passes of as beer.

[Davis]

True enough but unfortunatly the union workers have little to do with quality these days.

[OT+]

[AlJackson1962!]

Also from above 7/24/26 article:

"Lately, Teamsters have decided to press that advantage, flipping Padellaro’s fear into a policy goal. “We can brew Modelo beer. It’s the same recipe. Let’s brew it in the United States,” Sean O’Brien, the Teamsters’ president, said in an interview with Fox News last week to promote the union’s campaign to persuade the Trump administration to levy a 75 percent tax on Mexican beer. “I’m pro-America, pro-American worker, pro-American jobs. So if there’s an opportunity to tariff Mexican beer in this situation, which is gonna provide opportunity for our current members, which we have tens of thousands in the brewery and distribution industry, then I’m all for tariffs and all for keeping American jobs in America.”
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

O'Brien claims to be : "...pro American worker..." But his perspective is to ally with the "white collar corporate criminals" [O'Brien's words] at the expense of Mexican workers, whether they be living and working in Mexico or living and working in the United States, where they risk getting murdered by O'Brien's friend and ICE Director MarkWayne Mullin's fascist ICE police.

Organized labor needs to fight for the respect and dignity of all workers. This is a global economy. The billionaires that today have unprecedented power and control over this global economy will continue to build their power by dividing the workers struggling for dignity, respect, fair wages, benefits, and working conditions, wherever workers live. Buying into Trump's tariffs as a means to improve conditions in the US brewing industry, is contrary to the age old Union axiom that "An injury to one is an injury to all".

[Nights]

Also from above 7/24/26 article:

"Lately, Teamsters have decided to press that advantage, flipping Padellaro’s fear into a policy goal. “We can brew Modelo beer. It’s the same recipe. Let’s brew it in the United States,” Sean O’Brien, the Teamsters’ president, said in an interview with Fox News last week to promote the union’s campaign to persuade the Trump administration to levy a 75 percent tax on Mexican beer. “I’m pro-America, pro-American worker, pro-American jobs. So if there’s an opportunity to tariff Mexican beer in this situation, which is gonna provide opportunity for our current members, which we have tens of thousands in the brewery and distribution industry, then I’m all for tariffs and all for keeping American jobs in America.”
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

O'Brien claims to be : "...pro American worker..." But his perspective is to ally with the "white collar corporate criminals" [O'Brien's words] at the expense of Mexican workers, whether they be living and working in Mexico or living and working in the United States, where they risk getting murdered by O'Brien's friend and ICE Director MarkWayne Mullin's fascist ICE police.

Organized labor needs to fight for the respect and dignity of all workers. This is a global economy. The billionaires that today have unprecedented power and control over this global economy will continue to build their power by dividing the workers struggling for dignity, respect, fair wages, benefits, and working conditions, wherever workers live. Buying into Trump's tariffs as a means to improve conditions in the US brewing industry, is contrary to the age old Union axiom that "An injury to one is an injury to all".

I don't like the buddying up to Mullen any more than you but this seems like a strategic use of Tariffs to save and possibly restore Teamster jobs in the Brewery industry that we once dominated.

[pvtpilot01]

More IBT nonsense. Anheuser-Busch InBev owns Modelo globally, but does not own the rights in the United States. In 2013, AB InBev bought Grupo Modelo, but antitrust rules forced them to sell the U.S. business to Constellation Brands. Think this one through. The IBT is lobbying the Trump administration to impose a 75% tax on a beer that cannot be legally brewed in the US by AB. Moreover, Constellation Brands has no brewing facilities in the US and is notoriously anti-union. What's the endgame here?

[JWebb]

More IBT nonsense. Anheuser-Busch InBev owns Modelo globally, but does not own the rights in the United States. In 2013, AB InBev bought Grupo Modelo, but antitrust rules forced them to sell the U.S. business to Constellation Brands. Think this one through. The IBT is lobbying the Trump administration to impose a 75% tax on a beer that cannot be legally brewed in the US by AB. Moreover, Constellation Brands has no brewing facilities in the US and is notoriously anti-union. What's the endgame here?

Simply, thanks for clearing that up. If there is an endgame (I'd be shocked to find out there is a plan) what could it be? Possibly more work for AB as Modelo becomes uncompetitively priced due to tariffs?

[WTF891]

As they continue to automate the brewing industry. I'm sure SOB stopped that in the latest historic agreement.