Hey, so my husband got his lay-off notice today. He was the brewer at Mendocino Brewing Company.
Do any of you socialists know how to put together a worker's coop? Because it is absolutely ridiculous that the brewery is standing on one side of a locked door, and everyone who knows how to brew and bottle beer is on the other.
@jannamark is it okay to share this over on birdsite?
@tsaiberia the part about the brewery closing, or the part me dreaming about a workers coop?
Either way, feel free. The closure will be in the news soon enough anyway
@tsaiberia Hi, courtney. Did you ever hear anything back from your post on the other site? I'm curious because it's been days, and our local newspaper hasn't said anything. And the company hasn't released a statement. It's weird that it is so quiet
@jannamark I haven't, it's been quiet. And you're right, it is weird.
@tsaiberia Thank you for checking. I would have thought the company would have released some kind of statement by now, but maybe that's only in the movies 🤷
@jannamark So are they shuttered for good now? No hope of getting back in?
@tsaiberia I don't know, maybe. Still no official statement from the Board of Dirs of Mendocino Brewing Co
The only news we are getting seems to be from the other side of the country, where Mendocino's sister brewery has also closed.
The Saratoga Brewery (another of the nation's oldest) was also owned by the BOD of Mendocino Brewing Co
@jannamark I shared it. If you want me to take it down, I will. I don't have any experience setting up co-ops, but maybe someone else in the beersphere does?
This bites. I'm sorry.