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Pabst Tells Union of Payroll Cut: The Milwaukee beer maker has notified the Brewery Workers union that two-thirds of the approximately 400 employees at its plant there will be laid off by December under a plan to shift production elsewhere. Pabst Brewing Co. had said earlier this year that it would hire G. Heileman Brewing Co. of La Crosse, Wis., to produce some of its beer if it could not cut production costs through employee concessions. Pabst said Thursday that 278 jobs will be eliminated by December, leaving a Milwaukee staff of about 120 people.