Brewdog draws a line under ‘culture’ issues; still doesn’t recognise a union
BrewDog has admitted ‘mistakes’ after a review by Chairman Alan Leighton and deputy Blythe Jack. It will, it says, learn from them. The review did not support points made earlier by ex-Brewdog workers about the culture of the Scottish brewer
1400 staff and ex-staff were interviewed on line or in person Brewdog says.
Its not clear what mistakes the company thinks it made or what specifically it plans to do about them but it has announced a pay rise for workers, employed more of them and set up an ethics hotline
Whether any of this amounts to any more than window dressing is not clear because there is no independent scrutiny of what questions were asked in interviews or what the responses were. Obviously this would be in summary only, individual responses are rightly protected.
There is still no mention of recognising a trade union which would be the one thing that could provide some confidence that Brewdog genuinely does want to change rather than just keep on saying it does. The ‘Employee Representative Group’ Brewdog talk of is a familiar but usually ineffective anti-union device. It is not a way for worker concerns to be raised and dealt with at the top. It is away for the top of the company to transmit its views to workers in a way that apparently includes them but actually gives them no genuine voice at all
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