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Workers at Lakefront Brewery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin recently unionized and are asking for brewery management to recognize the union. Employees have joined the Milwaukee Area Service and Hospitality Workers Union, and the union represents bartenders, servers, tour guides, cooks, and dishwashers. Members of the union notified the brewery owners in late October that over seventy percent of eligible employees signed union cards. The owners stated that they wanted to personally review the union cards, which is not permitted during the unionization process. The brewery petitioned for a National Labor Relations Board election over two weeks after workers sought union recognition. The union stated that the company is attempting to delay unionization and an NLRB election gives management time to spread anti-union information to workers.