Overview
- More than 100 Teamsters at the Cass‑Clay Creamery plant in Fargo voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike to strengthen their position in contract talks.
- Workers are seeking higher wages, better health care, a pension, successor language, a formal grievance and arbitration process, and stronger strike protections.
- Cass‑Clay’s Fargo facility is part of Dairy Farmers of America’s network, making DFA the main counterparty in the dispute over a new contract.
- Union leaders say the plant produces, packages, and ships fluid milk and Stonyfield yogurt pouches across North Dakota and nearby states, so a stoppage could disrupt local distribution.
- Teamsters Local 120 says members are prepared to strike if talks do not move forward and the local’s more than 15,000 members across five states give it capacity to escalate bargaining pressure.