The 1985 - 1986 Hormel Meat Packers Strike in Austin, Minnesota

The hard-fought strike against Hormel opened a round of battles by packinghouse workers that together with strikes by paper workers, cannery workers, and western coal miners marked a break in the rout of the U.S. unions that began with the 1981-82 recession.

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