Hormel Strike P-9 Mural
1985-86
by Denny Mealy, Mike Alewitz and volunteer striking Hormel workers.
In 1985 workers, members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local P-9, struck the Hormel plant in Austin, Minnesota to protest a company demand for a 23 percent wage cut. The dramatic themes and issues, twists and turns, of the strike captured the national imagination. The mural was a response and act of support for the strike.
Read reflections on the mural by Mike Alewitz.
The Hormel Strike at 35: A Retrospective for Our Time
By Peter Rachleff
From New Labor Forum, 2021, Vol. 30(1) 70–77, Copyright © 2021, The Murphy Institute, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies
Peter Rachleff is a labor historian and author of Hard-Pressed in the Heartland: The Hormel Strike and the Future of the Labor Movement
The Local P-9 mural inauguration ceremony, 1986
