Today In Labor History

November 10
1933: Sit-down strike begins at Austin, Minn. Hormel plant. Workers at George A. Hormel and Company stage the first sit-down strike in the U.S., taking over the Austin meat-packing plant for three days. The tactic works: Hormel agrees to submit wage demands to binding arbitration.

1988: Tile, Marble, Terrazzo Finishers, Shop Workers & Granite Cutters International Union merge into United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners.