Faces of the lockout (‘Let Mommy work’)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_4958

Faces of the lockout
12 August 2011

MOORHEAD - Going without a paycheck – and essentials like health insurance – are taking a toll on the 1,300 families hit by the American Crystal Sugar lockout.

Life-saving therapy in jeopardy


Dan Dumas’ daughter Kayla was in a coma for three months after a terrible car accident. Since then she’s made amazing progress toward recovery, thanks to physical therapy, he said.

Her therapy is in jeopardy, however, because Crystal Sugar locked out Dumas and other workers and cut off their health care coverage. “This is really personal to me,” he told other workers at Thursday’s rally.

As he spoke, Kayla looked on from a wheelchair.





‘Let Mommy work’
Nine-year-old Octavia stood in the hot sun, holding a sign that read, “Why can’t my Mommy go to work?”

Her mother, Julie Nerguson, has worked at the Moorhead plant of American Crystal Sugar for 19 years. Her pay and benefits are critical for her family to make ends meet, she said.

“We have no health insurance,” she said. “We’ve cut out any frills like going out to eat. School is coming up and we need money for school supplies.”

FULL story at link.

[annabanana]

1. k&r. . . . n/t

[Brickbat]

2. I am at the end of my last bag of union-made Crystal Sugar, and I refuse to buy scab sugar. I've

written several letters to the company saying that, and never gotten a response. Who knew that Crystal Sugar itself would break my sugar habit?

K&R for SOLIDARITY!

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3. k&r