Brewery Workers unionism in the US

MID-1980s - Teamster Brewery local unions:

After merger with the Teamsters in 1972, a number of Brewery Worker locals refused entry into the IBT, becoming AFL-CIO “Directly Affiliated Local Unions” (DALUs), frequently using "Brewery Workers" in their local name. In the 1970s-80s they included:

PA - Pittsburgh (Local 22, 67, 144), Latrobe (BW Local 22) and Wilkes-Barre (BW Local 3067 - The Lion) locals.   The Latrobe brewery, now operated by the City Brewing Co., is organized by the IUE-CWA in Locals 22B and 144B - obviously successors to the old Brewery Workers locals in the western PA region.

Milwaukee - Local 9 (Miller, Pabst, Schlitz) - eventually joined the UAW

Golden CO - Local 366 -- the local involved in the infamous Coors strike, decertification and subsequent long boycott.

New Ulm, MN - Local 118 (August Schell) became DALU Local 118.  Listed as an IBT local above, currently a Steelworkers local (chronology unknown).

St. Paul MN - (Hamm's)  Locals 97 (Brewery Workers) & 343 (Bottlers) > DALU 97 & 343.

Pabst/Perry, GA.  (Pabst, Heileman) - Opened in 1971, the Brewery Workers won an election against the Teamsters, 59 to 44 (with one "no union" vote).  After the IBT-BWU merger, the local became DALU 353 - later Brewery Workers of Georgia Local 353B, affliated with the IUE.

South Bend, IN - DALU 275 (non-brewery?)

Butte, MT - DALU 104 (non-brewery?)

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New Miller breweries were organized by the International Association of Machinists (Albany, GA) and The UAW (Local 2308, Trenton, OH)

Allentown, PA - Workers at F & M Schaefer's new brewery initially voted to join the  United Cement, Lime and Gypsum Workers - Teamster local #477 losing the election after the Brewery Workers withdrew (due to their upcoming merger with the IBT).  

Schaefer's other breweries were organized by the  BW (Baltimore), Teamsters (Albany), with Brooklyn having locals of both Internationals. 

By the 1980s, under Stroh ownership, workers in Allentown were members of the Allied Brewery Workers Local #522 (affl. w/Boilermakers, into which the UCLMGW had merged) and, after a 1985 election, Teamsters Local 12 (as noted in IBT map above).  Local 12 representation continued after Pabst bought the brewery in 1999 until closing in 2001, when the local was disbanded.  Apparently under Diageo and the current Boston Beer Co. ownership, there is no union contract.

Heileman's "Schmidt" brewery in St. Paul had a contract with the IUE,  likely the former DALUs 97 and 343 (above).  Worlers at the Heileman brewery in Frankenmuth, MI, formerly a Carling plant, were represented by an Allied Industrial Workers local..

The Teamster local at the Memphis brewery operated by Schlitz > Stroh > Coors was dissolved apparently after Coors sold the brewery.  In 2011 the City Breiwng Co. of La Crosse, WI bought the brewery, renaming it Blues City Brewing Co.  In 2017 the workers rejected an attempt to join the IBT.  In 2020, the workers voted to join BCTGM (Bakery Workers/Grain Miller) Local 149.

In Canada, all but one Brewery Workers local refused joining the IBT (at the 1973 Convention of the Brewery Workers, most of the Canadian delegates walked out before the merger vote), and they formed THE CANADIAN UNION OF UNITED BREWERY, FLOUR, CEREAL, SOFT DRINK AND DISTILLERY WORKERS.

The CUB merged with the Canadian division of the United Food and Commercial workers in 1986.