Andy Richards, new media strategist at the AFL-CIO, sent the following message to working family activists:

It’s been a long winter for locked-out American Crystal Sugar workers. Workers have been locked out for nearly 19 months from their jobs because of the greed of CEO David Berg and company board members.

Luckily, the North Dakota Supreme Court ruled recently that workers were entitled to receive unemployment benefits under state law. This has been a lifeline for American Crystal Sugar workers.

But if politicians in Bismarck get their way, workers who are locked out in the future from their jobs, through no fault of their own, may be denied unemployment benefits. They could cut these benefits as soon as TODAY.

Tell your senator not to kick workers while they’re down and to oppose any amendment or legislation that would cut unemployment benefits for North Dakota workers.

Extremists in Bismarck want to ignore the state Supreme Court’s ruling and change state law to stop workers from receiving the benefits they’ve earned for their years of service.

This is a direct assault on all North Dakota working families and it needs to stop.

Send a message to your state senator now and demand he or she oppose any amendment or bill that ends unemployment benefits for locked-out workers:

go.aflcio.org/ND-unemployment

In solidarity,

Andy Richards
New Media Strategist, AFL-CIO