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Sugar workers’ caravan garners support
3 June 2012
| DRAYTON, North Dakota - A “ Caravan for Cooperation and Negotiation” by locked-out sugar workers is garnering support across the Red River Valley, the website CrystalGreed.com reports. |
“We also made headlines across the Red River Valley,” the site notes. “Valley News Live produced an excellent feature on the Caravan. Brad Nelson, locked out of his job at American Crystal Sugar’s Drayton plant, said he hopes management and Crystal’s growers are taking notice. ‘We want everyone to know that we’re willing to cooperate and negotiate, and we want the company to do the same thing,’ Nelson said.
“Grand Forks-based WDAZ covered the opening day of the Caravan – as well as the Prayer Service at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Crookston this Sunday. Becki Jacobson, a locked-out worker from Moorhead, Minnesota, made the trip north to Drayton on her motorcycle for the rally. ‘We’re serious, we want our jobs back and it’s time for them to be serious and start doing something,’ she told WDAZ.
“The Grand Forks Herald ran an article on the Caravan in its Friday edition, ‘Locked-out Crystal workers take message on the road.’ Reporter Stephen J. Lee said the procession took on a ‘festive air,’ as workers and their supporters remained hopeful the company and its leadership would join them in working together to reach an agreement and end the lockout.”
The caravan concludes Wednesday with a vigil in Moorhead on the eve of a bargaining session scheduled with the help of a federal mediator.
More than 1,300 workers at American Crystal Sugar facilities in Minnesota, North Dakota and Iowa have been locked out of their jobs since Aug. 1 of last year.
This article is reprinted from the website, Crystalgreed.com |
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