1985–1986 Hormel strike
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The 1985–1986 Hormel strike was a labor strike that involved approximately 1,500 workers of the Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota, United States. The strike, beginning August 17, 1985 and
The Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota (1920)
William H. Wynn, President of the UFCW during the strike
Strike action
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Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike in British English, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work. A strike usually takes place in respons
Workers' agitation as portrayed in Strike by Mihály Munkácsy (1895)
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike. Painted by Robert Koehler in 1886.
Strike action (1879), painting by Theodor Kittelsen
Female tailors on strike, New York City, February 1910