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In Barbara Koppel’s Academy Award-winning documentary film “American Dream” meat packers union Local P-9 went on strike. Hormel hired temporary workers and eventually broke the union, who were fighting to maintain their hourly wage of $10.69, in a year (1985) when Hormel had profits of $29 million. Twenty years later, an average meat packer is making $11.95 and hour. Hormel is currently advertising a position for a “Bilingual Production Supervisor.” Made in the U.S.A.