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Posted on 11/3/11 at 9:14 PM
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 3:24 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 10:32 AM
Crystal Sugar security denies petition delivery on behalf of locked-out workers
Hundreds of locked-out American Crystal Sugar workers and their supporters were denied from delivering a petition to company CEO David Berg today as part of a “Journey for Justice” rally in Moorhead.
By Sam Benshoof , February 22, 2012
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Locked out Crystal workers join tire union on 6-state tour 
Red River Valley workers locked out by American Crystal Sugar Co. management are joining Ohio workers locked out by Cooper Tire in a 1,000 mile tour through six states starting in Fargo, their unions announced Wednesday. The Bakery Workers union and United Steelworkers said they’ll be focusing attention on “the most recent wave of greed-motivated corporate attacks on workers and their unions.”
By Herald Staff Report , February 15, 2012
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Gayle Lund, Ulen, Minn., letter: Crystal workers delivered for company
Crystal executives and the growers all realized record compensations off our backs. We employees process sugar more efficiently than any other company in America. ... How can a company treat its employees this way?
By Gayle Lund , February 12, 2012
Chris Halligan, Emerado, N.D., letter: Crystal refuses to meet in the middle
The company insists it is trying to plan for the future, and that’s exactly the same thing the workers are trying to plan for. The company just doesn’t want to meet in the middle, and that is what’s wrong with this negotiation. It’s one-sided.
By Chris Halligan , February 12, 2012
Scott Ripplinger, Manvel, N.D., letter: Union says to Crystal, 'Thanks, but no thanks'
Many of my union brothers and sisters and I went to Washington to lobby for the most recent sugar program. We were widely credited with switching enough votes to ensure its passage. I am pretty sure we can work just as hard to ensure defeat of the program, although at this point we are not doing so.
By Scott Ripplinger , February 12, 2012
D.R. Myron, Thompson, N.D., letter: Crystal union failed its members
The sugar program is a low-cost effort that helps to maintain domestic sugar production and price stability.
Getting rid of it would only do disservice to the employees that the union supposedly represents.
By D.R. Myron , February 11, 2012
Paul Cline, Buckeye, Ariz., letter: Management — not the union — gets to decide
As long as the union workers continue to believe that the jobs they are locked out of belong to “them” and not American Crystal Sugar, a satisfactory resolution is impossible.
By Paul Cline , February 06, 2012
RALPH KINGSBURY: N.D.’s strong economy: It’s not all about oil
In all of the stories I have read since the current controversy at American Crystal Sugar Co. began, two very important economic facts have been missing.
By Ralph Kingsbury , February 03, 2012
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Debra Kostrzewski, Argyle, Minn., letter: Tell Dave Berg to end the lockout
I am a locked-out worker from American Crystal Sugar’s East Grand Forks factory. I’ve done more crying since the company locked us out than I have in all the years of my marriage.
By Debra Kostrzewski , February 02, 2012
Breaking tradition: Crystal union will fight sugar program
Official says tactic a response to lock out by managementThe Bakery Worker’s union will now lobby against the sugar program in Congress, according to a union official, breaking a long tradition of fighting for the program with farmers and American Crystal Sugar Co.
By Stephen J. Lee , February 01, 2012
American Crystal talks with union end with no settlement
Representatives of American Crystal Sugar Co. and its locked-out union employees met again Monday but failed to agree on a new five-year contract. Union members plan to rally Wednesday. Company officials say they have hired some ex-union members as replacement workers.
By Stephen J. Lee , January 31, 2012
In Congress, no one beats the sugar beet lobby
With farmers filling political coffers, supports and tariffs help growers reap profitsAcross this stretch of the Red River Valley, roughly 20 miles east of Grand Forks, sugar beets have become an almost-can’t-miss money maker because of federal price protections that go back decades.
By Jim Spencer, Mike Hughlett and Jeremy Herb , January 31, 2012
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Food drive for locked out American Crystal workers
The food drive began Monday and will run through Feb. 24. Nonperishable food items can be dropped off in Grand Forks at the Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Union Hall, 100 N. Third St. Suite 50, or the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers 1426 Union Hall, 1714 N. Washington St.
By Herald Staff Report , January 27, 2012
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