KEOKUK, Iowa—The Labor Day parade float September 5 of Local 48G of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers union here called for solidarity with sugar workers locked out by American Crystal Sugar in Minnesota, North Dakota, and Iowa. Local 48G members returned to work in July after a 10-month lockout by Roquette America. Their float was the now-retired picket shack, dubbed “Club 48G.” The Keokuk local has given $500 to the locked-out sugar workers, who are also BCTGM members.

—DAVID ROSENFELD