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November 10, 1933
http://nhlabornews.com/2015/11/november-10-1933/
Workers at the Austin, Minnesota, Hormel plant begin a sit-down strike when owner Jay Hormel refuses to negotiate with their union, the Independent Union of All Workers. Unable to open his blockaded plant, Hormel accepted binding arbitration and the workers received a ten percent wage increase a month later.
About Today In Labor History
The NHLN has joined with multiple other websites to help highlight some of the struggles that workers have faced throughout our history. We want everyone to know what the workers of the past had to endure for the rights we take for granted now. If you do not learn from the past, you are doomed to repeat it.