On Strike At Hormel: The Struggle for a Democratic Labor Movement (Labor And Social Change) - Softcover

Green, Hardy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0877228329 ISBN 13: 9780877228325

Publisher: Temple University Press, 1991

Synopsis

In December of 1984, the members of United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local P-9 initiated a campaign against wage and benefit concessions at Geo A Hormel Company in Austin, Minnesota. This book offers the insider's account of this watershed strike.

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An insider's account of this watershed strike

From the Inside Flap

"Green manages to capture the angst of a divided small town and the union's fatal gamble in confronting both Hormel and its own international organization.... It's the best accounting yet of a landmark labor-management confrontation."
—USA Today

"As Green shows, the Hormel strike turned out badly for everyone. The company besmirched its formerly paternalistic reputation by its tough stance, which involved permanently replacing strikers with lower-paid workers.... Green makes it clear that those who really suffered were the workers. Most lost their jobs, and in the small town of Austin, few could find new ones good enough to let them rebuild their lives."
—Business Week

"Opposed even by their own United Food and Commercial Workers national parent union, P-9 workers endured zero-cold picketing, police and military action, jail time, Washington labor-government apathy.... Green constructs an almost hour-by-hour account of this landmark labor struggle in an important study that will be of interest to executives as well as unionized workers."
—Publisher's Weekly

"Anyone who writes about the labor turmoil f the 1980s will want to read On Strike at Hormel."
—The Nation

Edition details

• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0877228329
• ISBN 13: 9780877228325
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368