by WDAZ
Union Workers Picket at Meeting With American Crystal CEO and Growers
August 30, 2011 at 5:34 pm in WDAZ
NEAR ST. THOMAS, ND (WDAZ-TV) – Sugar beet growers who met with American Crystal Sugar CEO Dave Berg at a farm near St. Thomas, ND, were greeted by locked-out union workers. Continue Reading
I don’t understand where the mentality that employers owe employees anything other than their wages came from. Companies no matter how big or how small are in business to make profits not to supply jobs and benefits. These strikers need to get back to work and thank God that they have a job and would only have to pay for a portion of their healthcare if the new contract is signed. I have absolutely no sympathy for them if they end up getting fired and or replaced because they held out for a better contract when so many out there are looking for a job. Unions do more harm than good and should be banned from making political donations the same way they (unions) want corporations to be banned from making political donations. Their days are numbered as we saw in Wisconsin and that’s a good thing. The times they are a changing my friend.
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American Crystal Sugar Company has only a small window to process this crop. The sugar refinery process is a highly complex and technical process. Yet the CEO of ACSC thinks just any one can walk in off the street and make these factories run. I just hope the farmer/shareholders realize, that when that window has passed the remaining unprocessed sugarbeets next spring will have to be hauled back out. They could probably replace the electricians,plumbers, forklift drivers etc. but they will never replace the refinery skills that the process needs to make a decent product. It will not suffice to just slice sugar beets and make crap. Like it or not the future and well being of these five factories and this company now rests with the farmer/shareholders.
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Time to open the free trade in 2012, stop subsidizing the farmer (welfare) and Boycott american crystal sugar so they can join the free market and the rest of the unemployed sugar workers…
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Harley are you a republican? You sound so much like a republican.
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Dear Brian Ingulsrud,
It was so nice to read a letter from your corporate website asking for safety to extend outside the gates, PLEASE consider the safety inside the gates for i have friends in there that have been hurt already ..your last explosion in East Grand forks concerns me….please issue a letter to all that safety needs to be a priority and that a loss of life then next few months is not worth the value of this years sugar crops…thank you
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From what I have heard the replacement workers blew up a white pan. Is this true ? If this is true, How are you going to make sugar without that white pan. I guess East Side won’t be slicing very heavy to start with. No white pan no white sugar. This crap has just begun. By the time they ask us to return we won’t have any factories or equipment to work with.
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Who has gotten hurt already? Has there been serious accidents since the lockout?
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I think Mr. Berg has the unions he supports mixed up. I think he needs to clarify the unions he probaly is thinking is the Closed Shop sugar Farmers not the laborers for he gets his million dollar bonus at the end of all of this from the closed shop union of sugar farmers…….funny how he can word his words so well and yet sounds like Mr. Brian Ingulsruds.
They must share notes.
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