Link: Workers think Crystal wants to break union | Grand Forks Herald
I just found out about the American Crystal Sugar lockout back home and I’m appalled.
American Crystal is making huge profits off the back of their union workers and now has locked them out and brought in scabs.
American Crystal fought my father tooth and nail over workman’s comp benefits after he was seriously injured working for them in East Grand Forks. They disputed that he deserved them at all. Meanwhile, I grew up with a father who physically could not get down on the floor and play with me, because his back hurt too much. I grew up watching my father crawl up the stairs because walking up them hurt too much. I grew up with a father in constant pain because surgery never quite fixed what happened to him when he was working at American Crystal.
I have never willfully bought American Crystal Sugar and I never will. They’re fucks of the highest order and they don’t give two shits about their employees. I hope they rot just like their product is rotting as harvest kicks up and the scabs they brought in can’t keep up.
American Crystal Sugar is scum and I will never forgive them for working hard to make my family’s life even more difficult than it already was. If I ever met one of the owners, I wouldn’t hesitate to spit in their face and call them every name in the books.
I urge all of you to stand with the union workers and against American Crystal Sugar.
Don’t let a company making $1.4 billion a year in profit screw the workers who give them that profit, just so they can make a little bit more money.
