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On this day, 7 April 2010, 800 Carlsberg factory workers in Copenhagen, Denmark, walked out on strike in protest at new management policies to restrict beer drinking at work. The company's truck drivers joined the strike in sympathy. The previous week, Carlsberg removed beer coolers from the factory floor, which contained free beer for workers to drink throughout the day. Instead they declared that workers would only be allowed to drink beer in the canteen at lunch hour. The strike lasted for five days but ended in defeat. However the following month workers walked out again for a pay increase. This is an article about the strike from the time: https://libcom.org/news/carlsberg-workers-walk-job-retain-right-drink-beer-work-09042010 The workers may have been unknowingly continuing a tradition from a century before in the US when many workers prepared to strike against prohibition, declaring "no beer, no work", with design we have reproduced to help fund our work: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/no-beer-no-work

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