The Workers Beer Company (WBC) is a trading arm of the Battersea and Wandsworth Trade Union Council (BWTUC) and is a British-Irish business that provides mass catering to bars at music festivals in the UK and Ireland. The WBC was set up by and is owned by the BWTUC. The company also runs a permanent public house, the Bread and Roses, in Clapham, London. WBC and the trade union GMB set up an ethical clothing company called Ethical Threads that provides mainly promotional T-shirts and sweatshirts, which is now a sponsor of the football club Reading Town F.C.