2012 February
Representing manufacturing, production, maintenance and sanitation workers in the baking, confectionery, tobacco and grain milling industries.
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By Lorraine McCarthy PHILADELPHIAโ€”Federal regulators have proposed penalties totaling $283,000 against the operator of a Hershey Co. facility in Pennsylvania that employed foreign students to repackage candy, after an inspection prompted by student complaints revealed alleged workplace safety and health violations, the Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Feb. 21. OSHA cited Exel Inc., an Ohio-based logistics contractor, for nine workplace safety and health violations at the Eastern Distribution Center III in Palmyra, Pa., a...

Supporters Deliver Petition Signed by Tens of Thousands to Crystal Sugar Headquarters Fargo, NDโ€”Hundreds of union members, their families, and supporters rallied in Moorhead, MN, today to protest the lockout of some 1,300 workers by American Crystal Sugar Company (ACS). After the rally, a delegation of labor and community leaders delivered a petition signed by more than 33,000 people to the companyโ€™s headquarters. The petition calls on CEO David Berg to end the lockout and resume...

Locked out BCTGM members from American Crystal Sugar are taking their message on the road, joining locked out USW workers from Ohio-based Cooper Tire and Rubber in โ€œFrom Fargo to Findlay: A Journey for Justice.โ€ย  The six-day, six-state solidarity tour willย focus attention on the two examples of the recent wave of greed-motivated corporate attacks on workers and their unions. Together, four BCTGM members from Crystal Sugar and four USW workers from Cooper Tire will travel over...

On February 16th, IUF General Secretary Ron Oswald sent a letter to American Crystal CEO Dave Berg, once again urging him to end the lockout and return to the negotiating table.ย  Oswaldย indicated that the IUF's global sugar coodinator reported on the situation at a recent world conference of their agricultural works unions. "Delegates were shocked in general to hear about the lockout you are imposing, but they were horrified to hear that at a shareholders meeting on...

OSHA has cited Zaloudek Grain Co. with four serious safety violations following an incident involving two 17-year-olds in August 2011. Both suffered leg amputations when they became caught in an inadequately guarded screw auger while cleaning out a grain flat storage structure at the company's facility in Kremlin. OSHA investigators found serious violations including failures to affix or secure the machine guard over the moving screw auger, provide training for workers assigned to enter grain...