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Omaha Steve

(99,658 posts) Tue Nov 10, 2015, 01:32 PM Nov 2015

November 10, 1933

http://nhlabornews.com/2015/11/november-10-1933/

Workers at the Austin, Minnesota, Hormel plant begin a sit-down strike when owner Jay Hormel refuses to negotiate with their union, the Independent Union of All Workers. Unable to open his blockaded plant, Hormel accepted binding arbitration and the workers received a ten percent wage increase a month later.

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