Video: Sugar workers call on Target to back boycott

[Omaha Steve]

MINNEAPOLIS - Community groups recently joined locked-out workers in urging Target Corporation to boycott American Crystal Sugar, which locked out union employees on Aug. 1, 2011. View video of the event.

Published on Mar 5, 2013

Janitors, security guards, building cleaners and allies joined locked out American Crystal Sugar workers on March 1, 2013 for a rally at the Target store and headquarters in downtown Minneapolis. They called on Target to stop selling Crystal Sugar until that company ends its 20 month-long lockout of union workers at plants in Minnesota and North Dakota. The event capped a week of coordinated actions by SEIU Local 26, Minnesotans for a Fair Economy, Take Action Minnesota, Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha, and Occupy Homes. The week, called Unlock Our Future, saw a successful one-day strike by security guard members of SEIU 26 and a near strike by SEIU janitors. Both groups won new contracts with security and maintenance companies servicing major buildings throughout the Twin Cities metro.

[RC]

1. +100

I buy cane sugar, to make sure I don't inadvertently by any off brand sugar packaged by them.

American Crystal sugar is Monsanto's GM sugar beets.

[drynberg]

2. Yep, me too, however

Boycott TARGET until they stop selling AmerCrystalSugar, and of course, AmericanCrystalSugar too. Monsanto is the SATAN, don't let them make you or your family sick or kill you. Really.