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Hard Pressed in the Heartland: The Hormel Strike and the Future of the Labor Movement. - book reviews from Monthly Review provided by Find Articles at BNET ... In 1937 it was forced to affiliate with a national union as part of a strike settlement. Hormel workers joined the Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee,
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Almost 20 years after a strike at the Hormel meatpacking plant divided the town of Austin, Minnesota, some parts of the community are still angry. On a hot August day in 1985, more than 1,000 workers filed out of the Hormel plant. ... The legacy of the Hormel strike, by Peter Rachleff (2000)
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Hard-Pressed in the Heartland: The Hormel Strike and the Future of the Labor Movement, by Peter Rachleff. Boston: South End Press, 1993. MHS call number: HD 5325 .P152 1985 .A877 1993.
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He concludes with a somewhat scattershot analysis of how strategies used in the Hormel strike represent new tactics that might revitalize labor. His book might have been more effective had he more closely analyzed and rebutted Koppel's film.
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[Excerpt] The dispute between the United Food and Commercial Workers and its Local P-9 over the long strike at Geo. A. Hormel & Co.'s meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota has put labor activists on two sides of an emotional and strategic divide.
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The Watsonville cannery strike is one of these struggles, the Hormel strike is another. ... Hormel recently announced that its profits were down 25.7% from the second quarter of last year, due to the strike. Nonetheless, they're still making money ... ("The Safety Issue in the Hormel Strike," Pete Rachleff, Labor Notes #88.)
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In the last full year before the strike, the Hormel plant in Austin had one of the highest injury rates in the U.S. meat- packing industry. In that year, there were 202 injuries for every 100 workers in the plant.
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President Wynn had explicitly ruled out a boycott of Hormel products or extending the strike to other plants when he had granted strike sanction in August 1985, and he continued to hold firm to these positions.
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Slaughterhouse Fight: A Look at the Hormel Strike ... The Watsonville cannery strike is one of these struggles, the Hormel strike is another. ... ("The Safety Issue in the Hormel Strike," Pete Rachleff, Labor Notes #88.)
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