The Nation - News from March 27, 1986
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About 80 striking meatpackers and their supporters slowed, but failed to halt, traffic into the Geo. A. Hormel Co.’s flagship plant and corporate headquarters in Austin, Minn., and a union spokesman said contract talks have been postponed until next week. Local P-9 of the United Food and Commercial Workers union has ignored its parent union’s order to end a seven-month strike. The protest came one day after the parent union announced it would hold a hearing April 7 to determine whether the renegade local should be placed in trusteeship.
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