November 21, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald
American Crystal Sugar management is expecting locked-out union workers to vote again on a labor contract in a little more than a week. In the past thre votes, including the one that led to the workers’ lockout Aug. 1, union members have voted overwhelmingly against the contract. Continue Reading
October 21, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald
Union leaders and management officials claim the public is on their side, but labor experts say public opinion has limited impact in labor disputes. Continue Reading
October 20, 2012 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
June 16, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald
The lockout isn’t done, but it might be over despite fresh voteThere are few easy answers for locked-out American Crystal Sugar Co. workers, who will vote Saturday on a contract they rejected emphatically last November. The terms haven’t changed, but in the eyes of some workers, the prospects for a better offer particularly after the latest round of negotiations went nowhere have dimmed. Still, as the fight drags on and parties dig in, it becomes harder for either side to accept what feels like defeat. “It’s hard to get your head around, ‘We really lost this,’” said Greg Cant, a labor relations expert at Concordia College. “That’s a hard pill to swallow.” Continue Reading
May 3, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald
American Crystal Sugar has agreed to sit down with the Bakery Workers union and a federal mediator Jan. 8, “but our final offer is our final offer,” ACS spokesman Brian Ingulsrud said Thursday. Continue Reading
May 2, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald
“We hope there will be negotiations; the last few times we met, they just listened,” said John Riskey, president of Local 167G, which represents locked-out workers at Crystal plants in East Grand Forks, Drayton, N.D., and Moorhead.
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