Wake Up, Farmers! A website to track scabs at Crystal Sugar

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Crystal Sugar locked out its workers in August and has dragged its feet on contract language for months. Crystal handles the majority of beet sugar in the Midwest and other parts of the country under many different names. I bought it because I prefer beet sugar, but the union bug and local product didn't hurt, either. Now I don't buy it at all, or any other sugar Crystal handles.

Here's a website that tracks some of the scabs at Crystal Sugar:

http://wakeupfarmers.wordpress.com/

Here is the BCGTM's site with lots of background info:

http://www.bctgm.org/ACS_news.html

[FreakinDJ]

1. Walmart Sugar

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2. ?

[FreakinDJ]

3. Crystal is the only Non-generic brand they sell

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4. Ah.

It's the one non-cane name brand in my local store.

Seriously, they're everywhere. Really the only way to be sure you're not buying scab sugar is to buy name-brand cane.

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5. Kick for Solidarity.

[Starry Messenger]

6. k&r

[dana_b]

7. the CEO of American Crystal Sugar

compared the union to a tumor. Sick bastard. I wonder how much he brings home and who/what the real cancer is?

http://bctgm.org/2011/12/in-recording-american-crystal-sugar-ceo-likens-union-workers-to-cancerous-tumor/

[Odin2005]

9. Ack, you beat me to the "cancerous tumor" remark!

[Odin2005]

8. My dad has been out of work for months because of this.

He's worried that he'll never get his job back because management are such dicks. The CEO called the union members a "cancerous tumor" on one occasion.

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10. I was thinking of you when I posted it.

Such a nightmare. Love the website, though.