Despite union lockout, boycott, beet harvest rumbles on
October 20, 2012 at 12:33 am in Grand Forks Herald
Sugar beet farmers in the Red River Valley are busy harvesting a bumper crop this fall, the second harvest since American Crystal Sugar locked 1,300 union workers out of its five factories in a labor dispute. Unions hope a national consumer boycott against Crystal Sugar will pressure the company to settle, but the beet farmers who own the American Crystal Sugar cooperative are not feeling that pressure. Continue Reading
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When I compare the May 6th, 2011 offer and the July 28th, 2011 offer, I see changes. Subcontracting was an issue raised by the union and there were changes in that section. At one time, we were told that the new language was written by the union and adopted into the contract by ACSC. I can’t determine if that is a true statement or not.
There is also no longer a one year limit on “red-circled rates”.
Your statement “Even though the company made no changes in their offer from January of 2011 until the lockout in July” is false.
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This is not the type of article that I was expecting when I saw that it was written by MPR. The union barely gets a mention. Maybe even public radio is tired of the union tactics of picketing residences and using children as pawns in a letter writing campaign.
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It all seems pretty clear: the rank and file, following their leaders’ advice, voted themselves out of a job on more than one occasion. Their leaders continue to get a paycheck, they don’t. Apparently, when you join a union, you put your brain in cold storage, and let others make decisions for you.
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