The Nation - News from April 29, 1986
Iowa state officials ordered Geo. A. Hormel & Co. to award up to $2.2 million in jobless benefits to 500 union meat cutters it fired for refusing to cross another union local’s picket line. A state official said that the workers are entitled to $2.2 million in unemployment compensation for up to 26 weeks. The members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 431 were fired on Feb. 21 for honoring a picket line of UFCW’s Local P-9, which has been striking Hormel’s Austin, Minn., packing plant since last August.
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