{"id":458,"date":"2005-11-02T09:50:10","date_gmt":"2005-11-02T17:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/11\/strike_imperils_city_stocks_of_top-shelf_hooch.html"},"modified":"2005-11-02T09:50:10","modified_gmt":"2005-11-02T17:50:10","slug":"strike_imperils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/11\/strike_imperils.html","title":{"rendered":"Strike Imperils City Stocks Of Top-Shelf Hooch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Truck drivers and warehouse workers at two major liquor distributors are on strike, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/56735.htm\">threatening city supplies of Wild Turkey and other favorite brands<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A strike by two major liquor and wine distributors could have New Yorkers thirsting for their favorite top-shelf hooch.<\/p>\n<p>Truck drivers and warehouse workers at Peerless Liquor and Wine Distributors, in Brooklyn, and at Astoria, Queens-based Charmers Industries, walked off the job yesterday, leaving at least 17,000 of some 26,000 licensed restaurants and bars high and dry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I found out they were on strike when there was no delivery this morning,&#8221; said Des O&#8217;Brien, owner of Langan&#8217;s Pub in Manhattan, explaining that the two companies together deliver 70 percent of his wine and spirits stock.<\/p>\n<p>Peerless, which can ship up to 60,000 cases of booze overnight, according to its Web site, is also the largest local wine distributor of California, French and Italian wines.<\/p>\n<p>And if you like to bend an elbow with a glass of Ketel One vodka, Chivas Regal, Jameson Irish Whiskey or Wild Turkey, be worried \u00e2\u20ac\u201d those name brands are exclusive to Peerless.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Some 400 members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union local 1D went on strike for higher wages when their contract expired after midnight Oct. 31, a union spokeswoman said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truck drivers and warehouse workers at two major liquor distributors are on strike, threatening city supplies of Wild Turkey and other favorite brands: A strike by two major liquor and wine distributors could have New Yorkers thirsting for their favorite top-shelf hooch. Truck drivers and warehouse workers at Peerless Liquor and Wine Distributors, in Brooklyn, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public_service_announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}