union busting

Final Friday Film: American Dream by Barbara Kopple

American Dream chronicles the six-month strike that followed during 1985 and 1986 at the Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota. In addition to union-company tension, there’s union-union in-fighting. Hormel holds firm; scabs, replacement workers, brothers on opposite sides, a union coup d’état, and a new contract materialize. Full neoliberal agenda focussed on small town America.

It Spread Like Wildfire! A Celebration

Historically, this is the first time that capital has locked out an entire teaching body at a university. Please join your fellow workers against this fresh onslaught of capital on our lives and future. There will be report backs from union members, students and local residents along with solidarity messages from comrades. Email your message of solidarity if you cannot attend.