The Nation - News from March 27, 1986
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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