EAST GRAND FORKS - As the AFL-CIO launches a national boycott of American Crystal Sugar, the children of locked-out workers appear in a new video that shows their struggles in the 15 months since employees have been shut out of their jobs.
Some 1,300 members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco & Grain Millers union have been locked out since Aug. 1, 2011, at facilities in Minnesota, North Dakota and Iowa. American Crystal Sugar is the nation’s largest producer of sugar from beets. On Oct. 2, the AFL-CIO endorsed a nationwide consumer boycott of American Crystal Sugar products to begin Monday, Oct. 15.
