Union Craft Brewing Is Offering Ownership Stakes To Workers

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Union Craft Brewing has started offering the employees who brew, tin and service the brew a involvement successful the Medfield company.

Last month, the brewery offered shares to six workers, and going forward, full- and part-time employees who scope their five-year day volition automatically beryllium fixed a involvement successful the company.

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“There is nary bargain successful oregon outgo to them,” Union co-founder Adam Benesch told WJZ successful an email. “This program allows america to guarantee that a bulk of Union’s ownership volition beryllium successful the hands of the radical that enactment astatine the brewery.”

In a station on the brewery’s site, the co-owners said they had been mulling the thought for immoderate clip and decided to accelerate the programme aft seeing the hardships galore employees went done during the pandemic.

“We person genuinely listened to our unit and heard their ideas connected however to amended their enactment environment,” the co-owners wrote. “Hearing from them, we realized that the accepted models of employment indispensable beryllium challenged and that present was the clip to connection our dedicated workers a much equitable employment model.”

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Co-founder Jon Zerivitz said successful a quality merchandise that the acquisition of shares from a erstwhile proprietor allowed the brewery to rapidly determination guardant with the initiative, known arsenic the Beer Unites Employee Ownership Program.

Jenna Dutton, the brewery’s selling and plan manager and 1 of the archetypal employee-owners, said the programme volition “ensure that employees from each section stock successful a corporate imaginativeness for the continued occurrence of the company.”

Founded successful 2011, Union is present the anchor tenant successful the Union Collective analyzable disconnected W. 41st Street, which opened successful 2018. Baltimore Spirits Company, The Charmery, Vent Coffee Roasters, Earth Treks and Wine Collective besides person spaces there.

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The brewery offers 18 drafts, rotating cask ales and cellar reserve beers.

Brandon Weigel