Twenty-Month Stoppage Yields Workers Hardship but Little Benefit
Posted on Apr 16, 2013 by Center for Union Facts
In summer 2011, the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers (BCTGM) union — the same union whose strike killed Hostess — representing workers at American Crystal Sugar rejected a final contract offer and were locked out of their jobs. The union demanded that competitiveness-harming policies like seniority promotion remain in the contract, so despite […]