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Coley Oley :
What happened 40 years ago... Reagan weakened labor unions.
2025-10-05 22:53:14
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🕷 🍄 Cricket 🍄 🕷 :
So it was the Republicans...
2025-10-05 18:17:01
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ivy :
this is amazing ❤️i love minnesota.
2025-10-08 19:11:48
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Evivant :
Reagan started all this bullshit
2025-10-06 01:52:41
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jjr :
Reagan’s union busting brought about these changes, ironic,huh?
2025-10-05 23:46:28
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Kay :
Remember folks - the shareholders mean more to companies than their workers.
2025-10-05 22:52:06
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fsm4242 :
do Republicans ever do ANY good? 😏
2025-10-06 03:05:34
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AKA DAWN :
THIS!!!!!! It’s the corporations not wanting to pay a living wage as their profits increased. Then they hire those willing to work for that wage. It’s not immigrants taking your jobs, it’s the job openings THE COMPANY created by not paying a living wage.
2025-10-06 01:42:39
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user4533406258483 :
So the white middle class in Austin was literally replaced because they wanted fair wages….
2025-10-06 04:21:53
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Rickster :
This is the true immigration story They do not want you to know about. Immigrants and the undocumented are people, too. They're just trying to live a normal life. Instead, you get a narrative that is insanely xenophobic.
2025-10-06 05:55:51
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Hammer :
The American dream...the people bail out the big corporations and get nothing in return.
2025-10-06 11:15:50
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user9943928810218 :
my dad was one of the union heads then. this tore our town apart.
2025-10-06 01:15:01
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Kyle :
Only a matter of time until the GOP/ICE targeted Austin. This is everything they despise.
2025-10-05 23:03:51
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KuyaMo :
PBS is not telling the whole story AGAIN... Hormel engineered the entire destruction of the Union.. lied to everybody.. The workers that went on strike all they wanted was better wages and benefits. Hormel is a bad company! DFL GOVERNOR Rudy Perpich allowed this to happen. What made the Hormel conflict so tragic was that the company’s two-track plan succeeded precisely because it unfolded under a government that still believed modernization was synonymous with progress. The DFL had built programs to keep jobs in Minnesota through industrial development bonds and tax incentives. Hormel used those very tools to modernize a plant that would later become the staging ground for its confrontation with organized labor. When the company finally demanded deep wage cuts, it was not an act of desperation. It was the completion of a long-term plan to reset the balance of power. Hormel had used modernization and the threat of relocation to gain leverage, and by the time the strike erupted, the machinery of control was already in place.
2025-10-06 21:34:32
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austin :
So tired of literally everything being traced back to money and corporate greed
2025-10-06 04:02:49
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Ray Alvarez :
This is the kind of journalism that should continue on TikTok. Legacy media is done.
2025-10-06 17:13:51
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randy.t :
So the elites are the problem
2025-10-06 11:35:57
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MKab77 :
I’m glad these teachers are for their students.
2025-10-05 23:27:11
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Obamacare Fan :
Hormel outsourced production to quality pork processors LLC years ago
2025-10-06 00:38:03
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rob b :
All blame lies with Reagan, that clown absolutely destroyed this country.
2025-10-06 04:26:10
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Avocado171717 :
Democrat voters destroyed MN
2025-10-06 18:01:57
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Sarah :
I really appreciate this reporting. Thank you. I’m from the Twin Cities and didn’t know about Austin background. Immigrants are what make this country great and beautiful, we should be so lucky to live in a country that supports welcoming all. And now seeing the threats to our neighbors and coworkers makes me physically ill. Trump is a disgrace.
2025-10-06 16:13:15
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Jenpippard :
That is the change of the future, small towns and urban cities change or economically go under, accept change and thrive.
2025-10-05 22:30:09
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gmr1990 :
So stop buying Hormel, got it
2025-10-06 11:55:02
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O0O0O0O0O0O0O0O0O0tiktok :
If they didn’t include facility upgrades in their budget something is not right, never let a company, your boss, or your country tell you there’s not enough money. Look at who has it.
2025-10-05 20:43:54
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