The 1985–86 Hormel Meat-Packers Strike in Austin, Minnesota

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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.

Photos, map, chronology, notes. Now with enlarged type.