Posted on 12/03/2012 5:25:55 AM PST by TurboZamboni
FARGO, N.D. — Their ranks thinned by a 16-month lockout, American Crystal Sugar Co. workers on Saturday rejected a contract for the fourth time.
Contract opponents say the sugar beet processor’s five-year contract offer would cut health care benefits and weaken job security and seniority protections. The company says the offer would raise worker pay by 17 percent over five years when a $2,000 signing bonus is taken into account.
Leaders of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International union said in a news release that the workers voted 55 percent to reject management’s contract offer.
“By now it should be clear that (company CEO) Dave Berg and Crystal Sugar’s management team has no interest in ending a fiscally irresponsible lockout that has been disastrous to farm shareholders, put the federal sugar program in jeopardy, and hurt countless families in the Red River Valley,” said John Riskey, the head of a union local that represents employees at three American Crystal factories.
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Thanks.
Another story of how unions are trying to kill entrepreneurship while trying to elevate entry level jobs. Heard a Delta male stew - (likely gay, not that it matters), talk about the FOUR RAISES he will get this year and TWO NEXT year guaranteed. He works about 12 days a month, travels the carribbean and Amsterdam the rest of the time FREE.
I’m sorry, for handing out Biscoff’s and coke products? This is not sustainable.
And there you have the solution.
Canadians doing the jobs the unions don’t want to do.
does this mean we will use REAL sugar cane sugar?
Just wait till TSA unionizes.
groping will be protected by the gubmint.
grapefruit growers simply had a machine designed and built when unions became an issue.
And here we go again.
Possible, but remember sugar quotas require Americans to pay two to three times the world price for sugar.
The sugar industry is protected from world competition. Not just the growing but the processing too!
I think it would be more accurate to say, Canadian union workers doing the work American union workers won’t do”.
You’re right - another brain dead job, that we’ll be forced to over pay for. After this weekend, I’m laying down the law for my wife. NO flying - if drive is under 7 -8 hours (direct flight) or 10-11 hours (connection flight). It’s not worth it.
The human indignity of the TSA line, which is what this is all about to begin with. is training citizens to become sheeple.
The company is a co-op. it’s owned by farmers.
“I doubt that any deal they make now will make up for the lost income over that 16 months.”
Yes, just think, every week that they are out costs them 2% of their annual pay, and still they are “sold a bill of goods” by their union leaders that they are “doing the right thing.” Those same leaders get paid whether their workers are on the job or not.
Delta flight attendants aren’t unionized.
Check Post #31. I corrected myself. But, thanks for correcting me.
You’re right...my bad on that....
Byline: Fargo, ND.
Are they making sugar with beets?
DUH! If I had read the article I’d have seen it’s beet sugar.
“And North Dakota is booming so there probably are other jobs for these workers to go to.”
Yes, but I suspect those other jobs are not at union shops. Which means that if these union workers took these jobs they would have to . . . really work, rather than union shop work.
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