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When workers at the Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota are asked to take a substantial pay cut in a highly profitable year, the local labor union decides to go on strike and fight for a wage they believe is fair. But as the work stoppage drags on and the strikers face losing everything, friends become enemies, families are divided and the very future of this typical mid American town is threatened.
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imagine what our country could be like if we all had the integrity of these workers, an incredible account of perseverance in the face of corporate greed (all rendered beautifully in Kopple's 1.37 frame, allowing the faces of the disenfranchised to loom large) — solidarity forever
It follows the 1985-1986 strike by meatpacking workers in Austin, Minnesota, after management demands substantial wage cuts during a highly profitable year.
It was directed by Barbara Kopple, who won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for the 1990 film.
It is rated PG-13 in the US.
It was released inermis US on December 6, 1993.
