David Berg, the president and CEO of American Crystal, told a gathering of company shareholders: “We could give wonderful raises and unlimited health care benefits, bankrupt the company, and who benefits from that?”

Berg is a hypocrite. He has no problem giving himself a “wonderful” raise—his “compensation” jumped by 23 percent to $2.4 million in 2011. Brian Ingulsrud, American Crystal’a vice president of administration, saw his “earnings” increase from $700,000 to $809,000 last year.

As Kari Sorenson, who works in the Moorhouse, Minn., plant, said in a union statement:

We worked hard to produce a quality product until they locked us out…I’m angry that the board has rewarded CEO Dave Berg with a $2.4 million compensation package this year. And yet management are committed to taking away from the workers who’ve helped make this company such a success, no matter the cost to our communities.

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