“Locked out union workers at American Crystal Sugar will vote Saturday on a contract proposal they have already rejected three times,” via MPR News.

@CathyWurzer had an interesting discussion this morning that provides some additional context pulling the American Crystal Sugar into a broader context of labor lockouts.

“Lockouts used to be relatively rare in the United States. But an analysis by Bloomberg BNA found that employer lockouts of workers account for a growing proportion of work stoppages in the United States. More than eleven percent of work stoppages last year were lockouts, which is a dramatic increase from two decades ago.”

via Morning Edition.