PR battle for the face of a strike

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A Fargo marketing firm this afternoon posted this video promoting the people at American Crystal Sugar company.
Yesterday, many of those faces may have been standing on the bridge that separates Fargo from Moorhead.
Workday Minnesota has posted its own "faces" of the company's workers, 1,300 of whom have been locked out of the Moorhead plant since workers rejected a contract offer that they say increases health care costs and makes it easier for the company to hire subcontractors instead of union workers.
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