by WDAZ
American Crystal Ready For Harvest With Fill-in Workers
September 4, 2011 at 10:20 am in WDAZ
MOORHEAD, Minn. (AP) With the lockout of about 1,300 American Crystal Sugar Co. workers entering its second month and no negotiations in sight, the company is ready to start the harvest season with inexperienced replacement workers.
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Inexpeirenced? 2 months on the job, their ready to do the job.
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This just goes to show how out of touch Ingulsrud and others are about processing sugar beets into sugar. No, you wouldn’t want 1,000 neroscientists because they would not be able to run the sugar refineries any better than the current replacement workers. Maybe after a year or two of closely supervised training they might have the basics down, but Crystal does not have the time and capable manpower to teach such a large operation hands on.
Refining sugar in a sugar mill is not something which can be taught in any school classroom or college. Sure you can teach the chemistry part of it but until you actually get in there and operate the machninery you are going to be lost. It would be like being taught the internal workings of the combustion engine and than without ever having driven a vehicle before in your life you are suppose to get out on the freeway and do 75 mph and go the distance.
Good luck with that.
I can already see the headlines next spring: AMERICAN CRYSTAL TO HAUL OUT UNPROCESSED SPOILING SUGAR BEETS.
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Ingulsrud never said that. The gentleman from Jobs Service North Dakota is the person that said 1,000 neroscientists.
“Everybody in North Dakota is a potential replacement (at American Crystal) as far as that goes,” said Michael Ziesch, a Job Service North Dakota research analyst. “There’s nothing to say that somebody can’t move from an existing job into one of those positions.”
He added: “It’s not like they’re trying to find 1,000 neuroscientists. It’s not that I’m trying to downplay the positions, but it’s not super specific.”
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It’s a little more super specific than Michael Ziesch thinks. Just ask the mangement team that is trying to teach it.
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