The Nation - News from Aug. 12, 1985

Meatpackers union officials recommended that 1,550 workers reject the final offer from Geo. A. Hormel & Co. in Austin, Minn. Their contract expired at 12:01 a.m. Saturday. Workers are asking for $11.25 an hour, while the company is offering a base rate of $10 an hour, Jim Guyette, president of Local P-9 of the United Food and Commercial Workers, said. The labor action would not affect Hormel plants in other states. A strike vote will be taken Wednesday.