AMERICAN CRYSTAL SUGAR
RURAL REFLECTIONS The harvest in four acts
I am writing specifically about the sugar beet harvest today however it could certainly pertain to any harvest. Act I Common Courtesy Everything means more at harvest time. People are cold, short on...
Posted on 10/20/12 at 6:08 AM
STAFF BLOG MIKKELPATES.AG-AT-LARGE Peterson says Crystal talks good news, union may be adjusting language
U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., a champion of the sugar industry as ranking member on the U.S. House Agriculture Committee, said it is good news that the two sides are planning to meet. He had n...
Posted on 8/24/11 at 4:24 PM
DRAGON NEWS A Sweet Boost for the Fourth
If you added up the crowds that have gathered for MSU Moorhead's Fourth of July fireworks show, you'd have a very big number. Over the course of almost four decades, hundreds of thousands have viewed ...
Posted on 10/27/10 at 11:32 AM
Despite union lockout, boycott, beet harvest rumbles on 
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.
By Dan Gunderson , October 20, 2012
Locked-out Crystal workers demonstrate outside Grand Forks, Fargo businesses
Locked-out workers took their dispute with American Crystal Sugar Co. to a new level Monday, demonstrating outside businesses in Grand Forks and Fargo that sell the company’s products, urging the public to participate in a boycott.
By Herald Staff Report , October 15, 2012
Alice Oseth, Crookston, letter: Crystal’s work plans apparently need work
If the replacement workers are doing such a great job (as the company claims), why is Crystal soliciting on billboards for workers?
By Alice Oseth , October 07, 2012
AFL-CIO endorses boycott of American Crystal Sugar
The AFL-CIO has endorsed a nationwide consumer boycott of American Crystal Sugar products to protest its 14-month lockout of union workers.
By Associated Press , October 02, 2012
ND Legislature may take up lockout benefit dispute
A lawmaker says he's expecting the North Dakota Legislature to take up the issue of whether workers who are locked out of their jobs should get unemployment benefits.
By Associated Press , October 01, 2012
American Crystal exec says ND sugar harvest OK
An American Crystal Sugar Co. executive says the company's replacement workers are doing well in handling this fall's sugar beet harvest.
By Associated Press , September 19, 2012
Locked-out ND American Crystal workers seeking jobless benefits
North Dakota's Supreme Court was asked for the first time Tuesday to interpret whether a 30-year-old state labor law should allow locked-out workers at American Crystal Sugar Co. to draw unemployment checks.
By Dale Wetzel , September 18, 2012
Mel Morris, Grand Forks, letter: Productive discussions take place at vigils
I and my fellow union members will continue to seek out discussion and dialogue with Crystal leaders, as this is not what is taking place at a bargaining table.
By Mel Morris , September 15, 2012
Karen Kalin-Horge, Halstad, Minn., letter: Lockout hurts spouses and children, too
Don’t people realize that this lockout has affected every union employee’s family and home life?
By Karen Kalin-Horge , September 13, 2012
Debra Kostrzewski and others, Argyle, Minn., letter: Board’s lockout takes fight to people’s homes
It is the Crystal Sugar board, led by CEO Dave Berg, that has broken labor peace and taken this dispute to our homes by forcibly locking us out from our livelihoods.
By Debra Kostrzewski , September 13, 2012
Carla Kennedy and others, Grand Forks, letter: Crystal workers’ response is ‘honesty, not escalation’
When locked-out mothers and fathers are unable to provide for their children, and when those children feel threatened, measures must be taken.
By Carla Kennedy and others , September 13, 2012
OUR OPINION: Don’t demonstrate at people’s homes
An unwritten rule in labor disputes is that workers and managers should respect each others' homes. Argue forcefully, demonstrate loudly and organize effectively — but don’t take the clash to people’s homes.
By Tom Dennis for the Herald , September 06, 2012
A hint of daylight in Crystal lockout
Recent talks on a return-to-work agreement raises the possibility that an end might be in sight to the 13-month labor dispute. The union and the company met Aug. 20 to discuss such an agreement, which would spell out when and how locked-out workers would return — and who would be eligible to do so.
By Marino Eccher , August 30, 2012
Dawn Berry-Bloomquist, Drayton, N.D., letter: Lockout costs farmers big money
Farmers, please contact your board of directors. Sugar from the south could and is swallowing up the big contracts. Tour your own factories and check out your “replacements;” Let us keep the big contracts.
By Dawn Berry-Bloomquist , August 25, 2012
Dennis Hanson, Grand Forks, letter: Crystal solution could be to grandfather workers
The solution should have been to grandfather the current workers in and start new workers on a different insurance and pay scale. That way, Crystal wins and so do the locked-out workers.
By Dennis Hanson , August 19, 2012
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