@peterjriley2024@mastodon.social
2026-07-12 00:19 UTC
It’s no mystery
Workers make history !
https://www.minnpost.com/mnopedia/2023/09/the-history-of-labor-organizing-in-minnesota/?
#labourmovment #Minnesota #organize #solidarity #unions #workingclasshistory
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@peterjriley2024@mastodon.social 2026-07-12 22:32
#OTD July 13th 1933, following a group of workers at the Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, #Minnesota, holding a brief stop work protest, hundreds of the men and women workers held an after-work meeting in nearby Sutton Park. They agreed to establish a union for all workers at the plant, and indeed the whole town, inspired by the Industrial Workers of the World model, and by the end of the meeting 600 had signed Within a few months they held a successful sitdown strike. https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8484/independent-union-of-all-workers-formed