Locked-out union workers and their supporters picketed outside a Fargo grocery store on Monday, Oct. 15, 2012, in an effort to gain public support for a boycott of American Crystal Sugar products. An ongoing contract dispute has left 1,300 union workers in three states locked out for 14 months. (Ann Arbor Miller/Ann Arbor Miller)
John Budd, director of the Center for Human Resources and Labor Studies at Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota, will join The Daily Circuit to update us on the situation.
"The size of the guest-worker program is designed to adjust automatically in response to changing U.S. labor needs, growing in good years when the economy needs more foreign workers and shrinking when more Americans are out of work."
After we taped the Friday Roundtable, I asked the panelists what we should pick up at the farmer’s market this weekend. Stephanie Meyer recommends morels. Amy Thielen says to buy dandelion greens if you can find them. Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl’s a fan of rhubarb: Here’s what you can do with rhubarb. I like to cook…