The parent company of Bud Light announced it would compensate workers amid a backlash targeting the beer after it decided to partner with transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney.
“The situation impacts really the front-line workers more than anybody else,” Michel Doukeris, the CEO of Anheuser-Busch InBev, told the Wall Street Journal on Thursday.
Bud Light’s delivery drivers, sales representatives, and distributors will get a $500 bonus each, he told the paper, claiming that they have been confronted by angry people on the street. He added: “Think about the truck drivers, the delivery people, the sales reps, merchandisers. Those are people that are the fabric of our business … they are family and neighbors.”…