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Hormel Foods Corporation (NYSE: HRL) is a food company based in southeastern Minnesota (Mower County), perhaps best known as the producer of Spam luncheon meat. The company was founded as George A. Hormel & Company in Austin, Minnesota, U.S., by George A. Hormel in 1891. The company changed its name to Hormel Foods Corporation 102 years later in 1993. Hormel sells food under the Jennie-O, Dinty Moore, Stagg, and Carapelli brands, as well as under its own name. The company stock is a component of the Standard and Poor's 500 index.
George A. Hormel (born 1860 in Buffalo, New York) worked in a Chicago slaughterhouse before becoming a traveling wool and hide buyer. His travels took him to Austin and he decided to settle there, borrow $500, and open a meat business. Hormel handled the production side of the business and his partner, Albert Friedrich, handled the retail side. The two dissolved their partnership in 1891 so that Hormel could start a complete meat packing operation on his own. He opened George A. Hormel & Co. in the northeast part of Austin in an old creamery building on the Cedar River. To make ends meet in those early days, Hormel continued to trade in hides, eggs, wool, and poultry. Joining George in November of 1891 was his youngest brother, Benjamin, age 14. By the end of 1891 Hormel employed six men and had slaughtered and sold 610 head of livestock. By 1893, the increased use of refrigerator cars had allowed many large meat packers to force smaller business under. Two additional Hormel brothers, Herman and John, joined the business that same year and together they processed 1,532 hogs, enough to stay in business. The remaining members of the Hormel family moved to Austin in 1895 and joined the growing business. George turned to full-time management in 1899 and turned his focus on increasing production.
In August 1985, Hormel workers went on strike at the Hormel headquarters in Austin, Minnesota. Frustrated by low wages and dangerous working conditions, they started one of the longest strikes of the 1980s. The strike began with the sanction of the International level of the union, P-9. The local chapter of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union P-9 led the strike, but was not supported by their parent union. The strike gained national attention, and led to a widely publicized boycott of Hormel products...
After six months, a significant number of replacement workers crossed the picket line, provoking riots in Austin. Wayne P. Goodnature was Sheriff at the time. On January 21, 1986, the Governor of Minnesota, Rudy Perpich, called in the National Guard to protect the replacement workers (derisively called scabs). This unpopular move brought protests against the governor, and Perpich soon withdrew the National Guard from Austin. The action had a greater effect on the national union, which ousted the local P-9.
The strike was ended in June 1986, after lasting 10 months. Over 700 of the workers did not return to their jobs, refusing to cross the picket line, as some had chosen to do. In solidarity with those workers, the boycott of Hormel products continued for some time. Ultimately, however, the company did succeed in hiring new workers at lower wages. It is still disputed as to who actually made the original National Guard request.
The strike was chronicled in the film "American Dream", which won the Academy Award for best documentary in 1990. A song about the strike, entitled P-9 (link to music video of song), was written by Dave Pirner of the Minneapolis band, Soul Asylum. The song can be found on their 1989 album, Clam Dip & Other Delights.
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