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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
David Berg, Moorhead, letter: Welcome back, American Crystal employees 
Speaking on behalf of American Crystal Sugar Co., I would like to welcome all the company’s employees back to their place of work.
By David Berg , April 15, 2013
Crystal workers to vote again
Locked-out American Crystal Sugar workers will vote again Saturday on a contract they have rejected four times before. After 96 percent of union members rejected the contract in 2011, the union members have voted down the contract in smaller numbers in each vote.
By Christopher Bjorke , April 11, 2013
Locked-out American Crystal union sets its fifth vote on contract
Locked-out American Crystal Sugar union workers will hold a fifth vote on the company’s last contract offer on April 13, according to Gayln Olson, president of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Local 372G in Hillsboro.
By Dave Olson , April 01, 2013
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Locked-out Crystal workers 'overjoyed' after N.D. Supreme Court says state owes them benefits
In a reversal, the workers stand to get $4 million in unemployment benefits, which the state denied them after Crystal management locked them out in August 2011.
By Patrick Springer and Emily Welker , February 26, 2013
American Crystal pays fine, takes actions to reduce pollution at East Grand Forks facility
Moorhead-based American Crystal Sugar Co. has paid a $24,943 penalty and taken corrective actions to reduce air pollution from emissions at its East Grand Forks facility, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency says.
By Forum News Service , January 25, 2013
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Proposal may be too late to help American Crystal workers
A Portland, N.D., Democrat has introduced a bill that would extend unemployment benefits to workers locked out of their jobs, but is not sure if American Crystal Sugar workers would qualify.
By Christopher Bjorke , January 24, 2013
Crystal union supporters join anti-lockout bill debate
A lockout of 1,300 workers in the Red River Valley has become evidence for Minnesota Legislature Democrats as they draw up bills to restrict the management practice.
By Don Davis , January 24, 2013
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Union held off as American Crystal stresses long view
American Crystal Sugar workers, who found themselves locked out of their jobs 16 months ago, found the door to a shareholders’ meeting closed to them Thursday.
By Patrick Springer , December 06, 2012
American Crystal Sugar workers vote again on contract
Locked-out American Crystal Sugar workers have another chance to say yes or no to a contract Saturday but they are again facing a choice they rejected more than a year ago. A yes vote means a contract that is mostly unchanged from what they have already rejected and that could lessen their power as a union. A no vote means a continuation of the 16-month lockout and its financial hardships.
By Christopher Bjorke , December 01, 2012
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Union confirms American Crystal workers to vote on contract
The locked-out workers of American Crystal Sugar will vote on the company’s contract offer Dec. 1, said a union official. The company earlier announced on its website that union members had met with management Nov. 15 and the company expected a contract vote. Riskey confirmed the statement Friday.
By Christopher Bjorke , November 24, 2012
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Last beets out in late harvest
Dennis Dipple finally finished digging his sugar beets Monday, only one day earlier than his father’s latest beet harvest 53 years ago, he said.
By Stephen J. Lee , November 19, 2012
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Crystal accepts frost-damaged beets for first time
With 89 percent of its planted acres safely harvested and piled, American Crystal Sugar Co. on Thursday implemented a new “frost quota,” allowing at least a small percentage of frost-damaged beets in the far north to be brought in.
By Mikkel Pates , November 02, 2012
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
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