Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/2011/12/page/3/)
The long and bitter battle over Boeing’s retaliation against the Machinists – by moving production of its 787 Dreamliner from unionized Pacific Northwest plants to anti-union South Carolina – may end with a vote: The union’s vote.
Locked out members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Millers International Union gathered at the Holiday Inn in South Fargo where American Crystal Sugar Company was holding its annual meeting Thursday to question the company’s motivation in locking them out four months ago.
The forecast surplus in Minnesota’s state budget is good news, but many people are still struggling due to Republican policies that shifted the tax burden onto the middle class, union leaders said.