Arbeiter Brewing DEI Statement

Arbeiter Brewing Company believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion matter. Accepting our own biases, we strive to be agents of change in spreading inclusion, equity, and justice in our communities. We’re using the below action plan from Crafted For All. We have yet to accomplish every aspect of the plan below, however, it is our guidepost and our intent to achieve each action item.

DEI Action Items Goals Plan

  1. Development & Recruitment Action Items

    1. Remove biasing criteria from job descriptions and employment announcements.

    2. Place job announcements where they will reach a more complete representation of the community’s labor force.

    3. Strive to build a staff that reflects the diversity of the surrounding community.

  2. Organizational Culture Action Items

    1. Establish safe channels for employee contributions and feedback and ensure that all voices can be heard.

    2. Provide transparency and a meaningful mechanism for gathering and utilizing input from all segments of your workforce in organizational decision-making processes.

    3. Regularly “take the temperature” of the organization’s culture with a cultural climate audit or another tool for assessing employee experience and use the results to drive future policy.

  3. Equitable Pay & Advancement Opportunities

    1. Ensure that all employees are being compensated with equal pay for equal work.

    2. Ensure that multiple avenues for employee development are provided that meet a variety of needs, interests, and circumstances. 

    3. Allow a range of hard and soft skills to contribute to employees’ cases for advancement and promotion, including a demonstrated commitment to inclusive, equitable, and just practices.

  4. Training & Employee Development Actions Items

    1. Make equity and inclusion training a key component of new employee onboarding.

    2. Make the design, implementation, and assessment of more inclusive, equitable, and just practices across all of the organization’s functions a regular, on-going component of professional development and skill-building.  

    3. Implement a responsibility structure to hold leadership accountable for achieving equity and inclusion goals and objectives.

  5. Discrimination & Harassment Policy Action Item

    1. Create a formal policy and a safe process for reporting workplace issues related to discrimination and harassment.

  6. Community Relations & Social Responsibility Action Items

    1. Proactively work to forge authentic relationships with neglected populations in the community through active listening, sponsorship, partnership, philanthropy, and business relationships.

    2. Include values-based factors in the criteria for selecting vendors and partners.

    3. Ensure that marketing, advertising, packaging, and all customer contact methods do not perpetuate stereotypes, appropriate cultures, or dehumanize any population or group.

  7. Communicating Your Commitment Action Items

    1. Ensure that the organization’s everyday communication functions – employee communications, public relations, and marketing communications – reflect its commitment to equitable, inclusive, and just organizational practices.

    2. Encourage leadership to share information about ongoing equity and inclusion efforts with employees and stakeholders, including successes, failures, planning, research, and benchmarking efforts.

    3. Provide information about the organization’s equity and inclusion vision, strategy, and goals in internal and/or public-facing statements.