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
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
In labor disputes, management’s leverage on rise 
FARGO – Once upon a time, Bruce Byars says, the notion of booting employees off the job in a lockout was so rare it was closer to myth than reality.
September 29, 2012
Fire damages American Crystal Sugar plant in Moorhead
MOORHEAD – Fire caused moderate damage to a tank and roof assembly overnight at the American Crystal Sugar plant in north Moorhead.
By Forum staff and WDAY-TV reports , June 27, 2012
Crystal union willing to make concessions on seniority
CROOKSTON, Minn. - A Bakery Workers union official is saying that locked-out American Crystal Sugar workers will bring a counter-offer to the June 8 negotiations with the company.
By Ryan Bakken, Forum Communications , May 22, 2012
2 Crystal union leaders face charges
Union files suit to claim jobless benefits in North DakotaGRAND FORKS – Two Bakery Workers union leaders are facing criminal charges from conflict between locked-out American Crystal Sugar Co. workers and temporary workers hired to replace them.
By Stephen J. Lee, Forum Communications Co. , February 24, 2012
In Congress, no one beats sugar beet lobby
EUCLID, Minn. – Paul Rutherford stared over his tilled fields of sugar beets, his gaze focused on hundreds of acres in the midst of harvest.
As heavy machinery plucked beets from the ground, they emerged a dull shade of tan. In Rutherford’s eyes, they looked as good as gold.
Across 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 By Jim Spencer, Mike Hughlett and Jeremy Herb, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) , January 31, 2012
American Crystal Sugar, union still at odds on six-month anniversary of lockout
GRAND FORKS - After a formal seven-hour negotiating session Monday, locked-out union workers and American Crystal Sugar Co. officials left the table again without striking a deal to end the six-month-old labor dispute.
As the lockout enters its seventh month today, picketing activity by union members at the five Crystal factories in the Red River Valley has slackened, with fewer huddled in warming houses at the gates for fewer hours on fewer days.
By Stephen J. Lee, Forum Communications Co. , January 31, 2012
No deal struck in Crystal Sugar labor talks Monday, company says 'window is closing'
EAST GRAND FORKS, Minn. – American Crystal Sugar Co. and the union representing locked-out workers are blaming each other for an unproductive negotiating session held Monday.
By Forum staff reports , January 31, 2012
Locked-out worker charged with vandalism
Moorhead man faces felony after American Crystal replacement worker’s car keyedMOORHEAD – A locked-out American Crystal Sugar worker faces charges after allegedly scratching a replacement worker’s car last month.
By Sam Benshoof , January 17, 2012
American Crystal calls union's latest offer 'publicity stunt'
MOORHEAD – American Crystal Sugar Co. rejected Monday the latest union proposal to end the company’s labor lockout and called the union’s approach to the most recent meeting “a publicity stunt.”
By Stephen J. Lee and Marino Eccher , Forum Communications Co. , January 16, 2012
A brief history of American Crystal Sugar Co.
1890 – Henry Oxnard and others open a beet sugar factory in Grand Island, Neb. The next year, Oxnard builds factories in Norfolk, Neb., and Chino, Calif.
By Dave Olson , January 15, 2012
Minn-Dak co-op has deal in place
WAHPETON, N.D. – While the American Crystal Sugar Co. lockout has received heavy media attention since it began in August, another regional co-op that is also a union shop has quietly been flying under the radar.
By Dave Olson , January 15, 2012
Is American Crystal still acting in the spirit of a co-op?
As lockout drags on, some question whether American Crystal more concerned with bottom line than community ideals of a co-opMOORHEAD - As the lockout of 1,300 union workers at American Crystal Sugar Co. stretches into a sixth month, a question is getting asked: Is the cooperative formed by area farmers in 1973 more concerned with the financial bottom line than it is with the community-based ideals co-ops traditionally aspire to?
By Dave Olson , January 15, 2012
Hitler as American Crystal Sugar’s David Berg? YouTube spoof has lockout ending badly for company
GRAND FORKS - American Crystal Sugar Co. managers are the latest group lampooned through an edited YouTube clip taken from a film about the last days of Adolf Hitler.
By Chuck Haga, Grand Forks Herald , January 12, 2012
American Crystal Sugar officials meet with grower-shareholders
CROOKSTON, Minn. – A small contingent of locked-out American Crystal Sugar Co. union workers greeted sugar beet growers as they arrived at and left an informal shareholder meeting arranged by the company at a farm near here Wednesday.
By Ryan Schuster, Forum Communications Co. , September 01, 2011
Once a corporate exec, Grand Forks union member now sees different side to Crystal Sugar lockout
GRAND FORKS – Gary Watts spoke in a soft Southern drawl as he sat on the couch of his family’s modest rental duplex in a quiet Grand Forks neighborhood.
By By Ryan Schuster, Forum Communications Co. , September 01, 2011
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