Crystal offers record beet payments
November 8, 2011 at 12:00 pm in Grand Forks Herald
American Crystal Sugar Co. is breaking a record when it set its final payment for the 2010 sugar beet crop at $73.02 per ton gross.
With on a harvest of 10.9 million ton, that’s a gross payment of $795.9 million. Continue Reading
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What goes aound comes around….unionites be prepared for all this to come back at ya.
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Got your big boy pants on this time Harley?
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Who cares if he does scooter! That is not going to be the difference between you having a job and not. What has your union done for you? All you do is look for reason to make a stink about ACS. Have you ever looked at your contract and been thankful for a great job and great benefits? All your union and Commrade Froemke do is find things like this to fire up the troops. ACS wants to get back to negotiating but its your union who is choosing to let you sit and go hungry. Don’t you find it a little odd that it took your negotiating team so long to get back to the table in October? Wake up and look past the bs your being fed to see what is really going on. Your a pawn in the unions national struggle, they don’t care about you, its a bigger agenda and your the lamb that is being sacraficed.
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if i were a exec who was afraid of loosing control, its what i would do
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Scooter, that is one heck of a conspiracy theory you have going on. Just so you know, with the accounting laws that ACS must follow, they are not able to “load” up this years payment and short payments down the road. The costs incurred due to the lockout this year are going to be realized in that same fiscal year. The record high payment was due to a record crop and high sugar prices. Even if that were true, the only one that may be looking at retiring would be Berg. The rest of the staff has years to go and being released would not look very good on a resume. These folks jobs are based on performance, not seniority……..
I agree there is a lot of cooporate greed, look at the recent MF Global mess, but that does not mean that every company that has had a profit or record profit is doing it illegally or on the backs of underpaid workers. The price will drop, the margins with drop, and with fair contract, ACS will be able to keep everyone employed and beets processed in these plants. You would have to be an absolute fool to think the margins will stay at this level. Look at the housing crisis, seemed you couldn’t go wrong with real estate and look where that landed people…….
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I just hope this doesn’t turn into another ENRON
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