Brewdog’s culture continues to give craft beer a bad name. Time to recognise a union
Its been another bad week for Brewdog publicity wise. Whatever you make of the beer (and I like some) this is becoming a more and more frequent event.
BBC Scotland are broadcasting a programme about Brewdog on 24th January looking at the brewer’s culture which interviews some ex-employees. What Brewdog were putting in the beers they exported to the US that the authorities would not have liked, had they known about it, is unclear. The matter is in the past. The relevant point is that Brewdog employees knew about it but felt they had to do it because of pressure from the top.
It fits with what are now a long series of complaints about Brewdog from former employees about the workplace culture there.
Also this week Brewdog launched a Sad AF beer with a mental health organisation. It was aimed to highlight men’s mental health issues and had a hard hitting video associated. So far so OK. But given the way it has treated some of its employees and the impact this has had on them, the gap between good intentions and actual practice seems yawningly wide.
It really is more than time that Brewdog recognised a trade union to allow employees an independent voice at work and to hear things it might not want to hear when they happen and deal with them, not later in the media.
BBC story
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