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Four BCTGM Local Unions representing 1,200 members at Amalgamated Sugar have ratified a new collective bargaining agreement, which includes monumental language that protects and enhances benefits and wages. Contract negotiations began in May and became contentious as the company refused to back off some of their unfair demands. In late July, Union members rejected the company’s proposal and voted to authorize a strike if a fair agreement was not reached. The pressure was on the...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) Federal regulators have proposed $193,300 in fines for a Billings, Mont. sugar plant after inspectors discovered 17 health and safety violations. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced Monday that The Western Sugar Cooperative has 15 days to contest the agency’s findings. Among the alleged violations, 12 were considered serious enough to raise the probability of workers being killed or seriously injured. Those included inadequate fire exits, failure...

Fargo, ND โ€“ Locked-out members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM) met with community leaders at the Holiday Inn in South Fargo, where American Crystal Sugar Company was holding its Joint Annual Meeting today, to discuss harm the over 16-month lockout of union workers is causing the company and community. โ€œThe lockout is hurting, not only factory workers, our families and communities, but Crystal Sugar itself and many people...

Jackie Tortura, AFL-CIO For the fourth time, locked-out American Crystal Sugar workers rejected an identical contract offer from the management company. The workers are members of theย Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers (BCTGM). American Crystal Sugar workers have gone 16 months without a contract.ย  Susan Sylvester, a Crookston, Minn., resident who has worked at the company for 37 years, told the Huffington Post: Our families, theyโ€™ve really suffered great hardship, especially the ones with...

With the endorsement of theย AFL-CIO, working families throughout the country haveย launchedย a nationwide consumer boycott of American Crystal Sugar products in response to Crystalโ€™s Sugar 14-month lockout of 1,300 BCTGM members.ย  The AFL-CIO noted that the boycott will be called off if the management of Crystal Sugar, which has denied its workers the opportunity to do their jobs, returns to the bargaining table in good faith and concludes a contract. ย  This consumer boycott is part...

Please take a moment to watchย this moving video of children of locked out workers that illustrates the unnecessary human cost of corporate greed. ย American Crystal Sugar and its increasingly well-paid CEO, Dave Berg thought record profits and skyrocketing CEO pay were not enough, and instead of expressing gratitude to their workers have instead denied them the chance to work to make a living. This video, shot at East Grand Forks, MN at the American Legion...

(Tula Connell published this Blog post today on AFL-CIO-NOW) ย Despite waking up with the flu one morning this week, Bonnie Holter headed out to take part in a 6 a.m. vigil outside the home of a member of the American Crystal Sugar Co. board of directors in East Grand Forks, Minn. Tired and ready to head back to bed after returning home, she still exuded the resolve that, despite having retired from American Crystal Sugar...

AFL-CIO – Michael Frank headed over to a rally in East Grand Forks, Minn., last night, one of many heโ€™s taken part in over the past year. Frank, along with 1,300 other workers, was locked out of the American Crystal Sugar factory a year ago, and last nightโ€™s event was part of the workersโ€™ ongoing efforts to urge the sugar beet processing company return to the bargaining table. โ€œThey donโ€™t want to sit down with...

Audio available at https://dl.dropbox.com/u/12103381/7-25press%20conference.mp3 (St. Paul, Minn., July 25) โ€“ Today AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka joined 1300 workers with the Bakery, Confectionery Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM), who have been locked out of five processing facilities and other facilities of American Crystal Sugar, in announcing that the AFL-CIO and BCTGM are escalating their campaign for fairness and justice at the company. The lockout, which began on August 1, 2011, came in the...

East Grand Forks, Minn.โ€”Thirty-four representatives of 11 BCTGM local unions met April 14 to discuss issues of importance to union members employed in the sugar industry. Chief among those issues was American Crystal Sugarโ€™s (ACS) lockoutย of 1,300 BCTGM members in Minnesota, North Dakota, and Iowa nearly nine months ago. Participants in the sugar meeting included representatives from Locals 167G (Grand Forks, N.D.), 267G (Crookston, Minn.), 372G (Hillsboro, N.D.), 283G (Twin Falls, Idaho), 369G (Renville, Minn.),...

Supporters Deliver Petition Signed by Tens of Thousands to Crystal Sugar Headquarters Fargo, NDโ€”Hundreds of union members, their families, and supporters rallied in Moorhead, MN, today to protest the lockout of some 1,300 workers by American Crystal Sugar Company (ACS). After the rally, a delegation of labor and community leaders delivered a petition signed by more than 33,000 people to the companyโ€™s headquarters. The petition calls on CEO David Berg to end the lockout and...

The already strained relationship between management of American Crystal Sugar Company (ACSC) and its 1,300 locked out workers was dealt another serious blow when recordings of anti-worker statements by ACSC President and CEO Dave Berg were made public this week. In a meeting of company shareholders on November 7 in Grafton, N.D., Berg likened the workers to a 21-pound cancerous tumor. According to an audio recording of the meeting, Berg told the story of a...

In response to a fire last night in the Drayton, ND Crystal Sugar facility and one this morning in East Grand Forks, MN, BCTGM Local 167G President John Riskey issued the following statement: โ€œWhen you put poorly trained replacement workers into these facilities, preventable accidents can and will happen. That is exactly what happened last night in Drayton and in East Grand Forks this morning. Yesterday, Vice President Brian Ingulsrud told the media there were...

EAST GRAND FORKSย –ย After voting overwhelmingly to reject the final offer from American Crystal Sugar, some1,300 workers in Minnesota, North Dakota and Iowa have been locked out. This morning, BCTGM Local 167Gย  President John Riskey read a statement at all affected facilities. “Today, American Crystal Sugar workers…showed up to work only to find their company has locked them out.” Statement from BCTGM Local 167G President John Riskey Statement was read at 7:00 AM at all affected...

Delight your friends and loved ones with holiday treats made by hard-working BCTGM members! Listed here is a small sampling of holiday goodies made by BCTGM members in the U.S. and Canada. Allan Candy Company (Hershey Company) Allan Traditional Candy Canes (Peppermint, Cherry and Mini Peppermint), Allan Holiday Collection Candy Canes (French Vanilla & Gingerbread, Butterscotch & Cappucino, Mini Canes), Allan Fruit Buddies Candy Canes, Allan Chewy Candy Canes. BCTGM Local 350T (Granby, Quebec) Annabelle...