American Crystal Sugar Is Killing the American Dream

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Workers appeal to Crystal shareholders, one neighbor to another

Beet growers who own Crystal Sugar – the cooperative that’s been locking 1,300 workers out of their jobs for the last 13 months – haven’t had to walk through a picket line on their way to work each day.

Until now.


Neighbor-to-neighbor picketing outside Crystal Board of Directors member Don Andringa’s house in Crookston.


Early Tuesday morning, locked-out members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union set up picket lines outside the homes of select members of Crystal Sugar’s Board of Directors. The neighbor-to-neighbor pickets, according to a report on KFGO (click for audio), are intended to confront the company’s power brokers with the consequences of their decision not to negotiate with friends, family members and neighbors.

The actions, according to KFGO, “are not a large-scale protest,” with only a handful of picketers at each home. Picketers are remaining respectful of board members families and neighbors, several of whom report having constructive conversations with union members about the lockout.

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