#Minnesota and US history - the Reverend Jesse Jackson attempted to mediate, the National Guard was deployed, but in the end, the local union lost. This was only a few years after Reagan fired 11,000 union air traffic controllers (also in August).
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A 2004 article interviewing two workers who were at the Hormel plant during the strike. (For those not aware, Hormel makes the canned meat product SPAM.) #Minnesota news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/200...
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History of the Hormel company and labor relations going back to its founding in 1891 and earlier strike in 1933 #Minnesota againstthecurrent.org/atc002/behin...
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But non-ironically
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