Video: 'THE AMERICAN DREAM - MEAT PACKERS STRIKE OF 1985-1986 - Discovery History Food (full documentary)'

(Saturday, August 17, 1985, 12:01 a.m. CDT) — More than 1,400 meatpackers walked off the job today at the Geo. A. Hormel and Co.’s main plant in Austin, Minnesota, in a bitter strike that would last just over a year.