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Resting on Labor Day
Today is Labor Day. According to the United States Department of Labor, Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achie...
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Today's Ask Your Government
Dear Teri, With the law on separation of church and state, why can state-owned schools have churches on the property? University of North Dakota has the Christus Rex Lutheran Campus Center, which is ...
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Quilting Cousins
I have some very talented cousins on my Dad's side of the family. Once a month a few of my girl cousins get together, we take turns hosting. At one of the Fall get togethers we decide on a theme for t...
Posted on 6/28/09 at 4:57 AM
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INFLUENCE GAME: Tech, labor spar on immigration

Editors Note: An occasional look at how behind-the-scenes influence is exercised in Washington.

May 16, 2013

Agency fines American Crystal

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has completed 51 enforcement cases in the first quarter of 2013, including two against American Crystal Sugar locations.

By Forum News Service , April 16, 2013

Crystal Sugar union workers to vote for 5th time

Union workers in North Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa who have been locked out of their jobs for 20 months at American Crystal Sugar Co. are voting on the contract for the fifth time.

April 13, 2013

Court won’t reconsider Crystal workers ruling

The North Dakota Supreme Court said Friday it won’t reconsider a decision to grant unemployment benefits to locked-out workers at American Crystal Sugar Co.

April 06, 2013

American Crystal union sets fifth contract vote

Locked-out American Crystal Sugar union workers will hold a fifth vote on the company’s last contract offer on April 13, according to Gayln Olson, president of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Local 372G in Hillsboro.

By Forum News Service , April 02, 2013

Court: Workers deserve benefits

A divided North Dakota Supreme Court handed locked-out American Crystal Sugar workers a victory with a decision Tuesday that they are entitled to unemployment benefits.

By By Patrick Springer and Emily Welker, Forum News Service , February 27, 2013

Proposal may be too late to help American Crystal workers

A Portland, N.D., Democrat has introduced a bill that would extend unemployment benefits to workers locked out of their jobs, but is not sure if American Crystal Sugar workers would qualify.

By By Christopher Bjorke, Forum News Service , January 24, 2013

Dockworkers strike averted

Dockworkers along the East Coast and the Gulf of Mexico agreed Friday to extend their contract for more than a month, averting a weekend strike that could have crippled major ports from Boston to Houston and bottled up billions of dollars’ worth of cargo.

By By David B. Caruso, Associated Press , December 29, 2012

Strike likely averted at East Coast ports

The union for longshoremen along the East Coast and Gulf of Mexico has agreed to extend its contract for 30 days, averting a possible strike that could have crippled operations at ports that handle about 40 percent of all U.S. container cargo, a federal mediator announced Friday.

December 28, 2012

Walker says he won’t push right-to-work

Walker says he won’t push right-to-work Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said Thursday he was not going to push for any right-to-work legislation similar to the law recently approved in Michigan.

By By Jeff Holmquist, Forum Communications , December 14, 2012

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Union held off as Crystal stresses long view

Union held off as Crystal stresses long view American Crystal Sugar workers, who found themselves locked out of their jobs 16 months ago, found the door to a shareholders’ meeting closed to them Thursday.

By By Patrick Springer, Forum Communications , December 07, 2012

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Crystal union votes down another offer

Locked-out union workers at American Crystal Sugar said “no” to the company’s contract offer a fourth time on Saturday. Their message is clear: They’d rather stay locked out than accept the contract. They’d rather extend a 16-month lockout than take a contract that, to most observers of the regional labor market, looks pretty good.

By The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead , December 07, 2012

Union confirms ACS workers to vote on contract

The locked-out workers of American Crystal Sugar will vote on the company’s contract offer Dec. 1, said a union official. John Riskey, president of Local 167G of the Bakery Workers union representing employees at Crystal plants in East Grand Forks, Moorhead and Drayton, N.D., said the vote would include workers at Crystal’s five factories in Minnesota and North Dakota along with members in Iowa.

By By Christopher Bjorke, Forum Communications , November 24, 2012

Locked-out Crystal workers push consumer boycott

Locked-out workers at American Crystal Sugar Co. factories in eastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota are demonstrating outside businesses in the Fargo and Grand Forks areas that sell the company's products.

October 16, 2012

Union takes Crystal Sugar protests to stores

Union takes Crystal Sugar protests to stores Taking their contract dispute with American Crystal Sugar Co. to a new level, locked-out workers on Monday demonstrated outside of businesses that sell the company’s products, urging the public to participate in a boycott.

By By Dave Olson , Forum Communications , October 16, 2012

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