(Picketers are out again).....They are striking the Sugar Plant on Keystone Road and Highway 86.

They began Thursday The pickaters are claiming unfair labor practices. They say they want the plant to negotiate in good faith. Some of the protesters say the sugar beet harvest is about three weeks away. They say the strike was planned to go right up to the harvest. They that puts the pressure on the plant to get back to the negotiations. A threat to the harvest could cost Spreckles some money. Other strikers say they are mostly demanding respect from plant officials in the labor negotiations.