(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) A far-left labor union has effectively forced the closure of the 127-year-old Anchor Brewing Co. in San Francisco after causing labor costs to skyrocket, the New York Post reported on Saturday.
According to former San Francisco mayoral candidate Richie Greenberg, the socialist labor union stifled the legacy small business.
“You schmucks ruined a legacy business,” San Francisco political commentator and former mayoral candidate Richie Greenberg told the Post. “Your union fought for 25% raises, and now your members are getting 100% of zero. Bravo.”
According to locals, the Democratic Socialists of America group which drove Anchor Brewing Co.’s 61-man labor force into unionization caused the beer company to go belly-up.
“This union was not prioritizing the long-term health of the business,” said Greenberg, who further suggested that the union’s leaders are ineffectual and greedy.
“These Democratic Socialists really don’t care about the workers they’re getting involved with. They only want power, and more membership in their screw-loose cult.”
The far-left union is led by organizer Brace Belden, who calls himself a Marxist-Leninist and a DSA member.
Belden led the charge to get workers to unionize.
“We didn’t just dedicate ourselves to this project for the sole reason of starting a union,” Belden crowed in 2019. “Campaigns spearheaded by socialist labor organizers. . . give us a foundation for a labor movement ready to take on the power of capital.”
But now, after totally destroying the “capital” that they sought to “take” control over, union leaders expressed frustration with the outcome.
“We’re sad, we’re defeated, we want to be left alone,” the union tweeted Thursday.
Investor and author Carol Roth, who penned the book You Will Own Nothing, the workers and their union failed because they ignored basic limitations of finance.
“I’m very sympathetic to the workers, but there also has to be some reality,” Roth said. “And that’s the problem with socialism: in the real world, the economic and math tenets quite literally do not add up.”
