The Nation - News from Nov. 24, 1986
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Presidents of union locals from around the country called for solidarity with meatpackers who lost jobs during a strike and accused top labor leadership of cooperating with management to force concessions. About 250 workers at a rally in Boston’s Faneuil Hall cheered speakers who called for action against the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union leadership, which they said permitted deteriorating wages and benefits. Ron Weisen, president of United Steel Workers of America Local 1397 in Pittsburgh, called for solidarity with workers in Austin, Minn., where about 800 were not allowed back to work under a new contract at a George A. Hormel Co. meatpacking plant.
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