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Old Posted May 24, 2013, 11:15 PM
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Los Angeles Brewery workers toast the upcoming end of Prohibition. They worked in three shifts around the clock to get ready to legally ship Eastside Beer:




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More: http://articles.latimes.com/1997/sep/07/local/me-29791
"In an era when Los Angeles was characterized by bad relations between workers and management, the Eastside Brewery was a happy exception. Brewery workers--unionized from the day the plant opened--always were among the city's best-paid and had excellent working conditions... As the years went on, the workers' benefits mounted. Lunch periods at Eastside were paid--a rarity at the time--and vacation benefits were among the most liberal available, ranging to eight weeks annually after 20 years. But to some, the most important perks were the guaranteed seven-minute beer breaks every hour (beer was free and unlimited) and employee rights to buy take-home beer at 40% to 50% off retail."

Sounds pretty good.
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