Anchor Employees Vote to Unionize

Dear Client: Bloomberg reported yesterday that Anchor Brewing Co. could be among the first U.S. unionized craft brewer. (There are definitely others: Boston Beer's Cincy brewery is unionized, as is Lagunitas in Chicago.) Employees at Anchor, often credited as America's first craft brewery (and bought by Sapporo in 2017 for $85 million), voted yesterday 31-16 to organize with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. Anchor Brewing now has less than two weeks to dispute the vote. Unionization has been about