Land O’Lakes
Land O’Lakes, Inc. is a member-owned agricultural cooperative based in the Minneapolis-St. Paul suburb of Arden Hills, Minnesota, focusing on the dairy industry. The co-op has 1,959 direct producer-members, 751 member-cooperatives, and about 10,000 employees who process and distribute products for about 300,000 agricultural producers; handling 12 billion pounds of milk annually. It is ranked third on the National Cooperative Bank Co-op 100 list of mutuals and cooperatives.
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The agreement included a grievance procedure and arbitration provision that stated “[a]ny controversy arising over the interpretation of or adherence to the terms and provisions of this Agreement shall be settled” according to a three-step grievance procedure culminating in formal arbitration. -Smith v. Land O’Lakes
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