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Beer drinkers down tools

Beer deliveries around Copenhagen were interrupted last week after hundreds of Carlsberg workers walked out when the brewer tightened rules on workplace drinking and removed beer coolers from work sites, the Times reports.

The warehouse and production workers in Denmark are protesting against the company’s new alcohol policy, which allows them to drink beer only during lunch hours in the canteen. Previously, they could help themselves to beer throughout the day, from coolers placed around the site.

The only restriction was that they could not be drunk at work. “It was up to each and everyone to be responsible,” Jens Bekke, a company spokesman said.

“There has been free beer, water and soft drinks everywhere,” he added. “Yesterday, beers were removed from all refrigerators. The only place you can get a beer in future is in the canteen, at lunch.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .