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GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — Police say union supporters have directed racial slurs and racist symbols at replacement workers and security personnel outside an American Crystal Sugar plant in North Dakota.
Traill County Sheriff Mike Crocker says there have been racial statements made to security people outside of the company's Hillsboro facility. He says he recently saw a monkey-like figure hanging from a noose attached to a large inflatable rat outside the plant.
Police confirm racial incidents at sugar plant - Houston Chronicle
What's this? Are we sure this isn't Tea Party members posing as Union members? heheh....
j-mac
So, the company decides to bring in replacement workers while the union workers continue on with a 6-weeks long strike, but the union workers hurl insults and create rather disgusting images designed to upset the replacement workers? I'd fire anybody I was able to view on camera saying anything racist or promoting the display of racist or threatening images.
Or wait, are they not allowed to punish/terminate striking workers?
So, the company decides to bring in replacement workers while the union workers continue on with a 6-weeks long strike, but the union workers hurl insults and create rather disgusting images designed to upset the replacement workers? I'd fire anybody I was able to view on camera saying anything racist or promoting the display of racist or threatening images.
Or wait, are they not allowed to punish/terminate striking workers?
not to replacement workers. no mention of hurling insults. no pics of the images.racist statements were made to security personnel,
except, the article stated that not to replacement workers. no mention of hurling insults. no pics of the images.
except, the article stated that not to replacement workers. no mention of hurling insults. no pics of the images.
Bearing in mind, of course, that absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence, absence of EASY evidence is suspect.
Imagine how powerful a single image of the monkey hanging from the rat would have been.
And rat is a meme for scab, so who are the scabs supposedly hanging, represented by a monkey?
Inquiring minds want to know!
Crocker said he has also heard that some outside the Hillsboro plant were dressed in white sheets reminiscent of Ku Klux Klan members several weeks ago, but he said he couldn’t confirm if the incident happened. He said the Traill County Sheriff’s Office hasn’t received any complaints about the picketing workers.
Oh, I wasn't aware that it being security and not replacement workers makes the action any less inappropriate and unacceptable.
Also, I hope the next time an article or news story about tea party racism which is unaccompanied by video/photo evidence will be questioned for veracity as doggedly as this incident has been.
A lot of racists everywhere. If it happened then it's obviously wrong.
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — Police say union supporters have directed racial slurs and racist symbols at replacement workers and security personnel outside an American Crystal Sugar plant in North Dakota.
What's this? Are we sure this isn't Tea Party members posing as Union members? heheh....
j-mac
we both know this could have happened. but no police force has received complaints. and the fact that this guy repeated something with no substance leads me to suspect the sheriff has an agenda. unprofessional, at the least:
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everybody's heard of the comments, but noboy has HEARD them.
AMERICAN CRYSTAL LOCKOUT: Tensions high on the picket line | Grand Forks Herald | Grand Forks, North Dakota
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