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Monday, February 27, 2012

Minnesota to Wisconsin: Journey for Justice | AFL-CIO NOW BLOG

Organizing & Bargaining | AFL-CIO NOW BLOG:

"Linda Jones went to work at Cooper Tire in Findlay, Ohio, 37 years ago. Nathan Rand was on the job for five years at the American Crystal Sugar plant in Hillsboro. N.D. Jones and 1,000 of her co-workers were locked out in August. American Crystal locked out Rand and 1,300 workers at seven plants in Iowa, Minnesota and North Dakota in November."

“I couldn’t believe a place we worked so hard for would slap us in the face like we meant nothing to them,” says Jones in a telephone interview Thursday afternoon. She and Rand and six other Cooper and American Crystal workers were rolling down the road from Minnesota to Wisconsin as part of the 1,000 mile Journey for Justice


{so, what's the big deal? American Crystal Sugar is intent on negotiating a contract
 that does away with seniority. this is the case even though Crystal has made record profits in 2011.
 does this sound familiar? it should. }
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