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Article: Labor dispute at one of Caribbean's largest breweries causes beer shortage
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- June 15, 2004
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MICHAEL SMITH, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
06-15-2004
Dateline: PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad
A labor dispute at one of the Caribbean's largest breweries has caused a shortage of a beloved beer, leaving bar owners struggling to satisfy thirsty customers who aren't happy with higher-priced foreign brews.
Union and company officials from Caribbean Development Company Ltd. and Carib Glass went to court Tuesday to argue whether the lockout of 875 workers is legal, but a judge granted the company's request to postpone the hearing until Thursday.
Since the beer company locked out workers on May 24, production has been as little as 40 percent at times, said Allan Herrera, spokesman for ...