Word: hormel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Kopple's material is unpromising: a labor dispute at the Hormel meat- packing plant in little Austin, Minn., eight years ago. My dear, how quaint. Are they really still having these things? Yes, and they are more difficult than ever to evaluate. In Austin there were three sides: a management operating in a depressed industry and determined to roll back wages despite continuing profits; an international union convinced that this was the wrong time for a strike; and a local union led by militants and further stirred by a hired consultant whose strategy was to embarrass the company into capitulation...