SPAM strikes back

Planet Money

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4.6 • 29.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Hormel Foods makes SPAM, and for generations, the company also created jobs for families in Austin, Minnesota. Today, the story of a labor strike that threatened to tear one small town apart. (This episode was made in collaboration with The Experiment podcast.) | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

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0:00.0	This is Planet Money from NPR.
0:03.6	There has been a tsunami of job
0:08.2	resignations in the U.S. workforce
0:09.8	recently.
0:10.8	This has been called the Great
0:11.7	Resignation.
0:12.7	A wave of workers strikes sweeping
0:14.9	across America.
0:16.2	Thousands across the country.
0:17.8	In the past few years, there have been
0:19.4	some pretty high profile labor strikes.
0:22.0	2018 saw the year of teacher strikes.
0:24.9	2019 General Motors went on strike for
0:27.4	five weeks.
0:28.7	In this year, there was John Deere, Kellogg's, Starbucks.
0:32.3	The list goes on.
0:34.0	In a lot of cases, workers are striking
0:36.2	against a CEO they've never met.
0:38.9	Someone who likely makes close to 350 times their salary.
0:43.0	And who might live thousands of miles away.
0:46.0	But what if this all takes place in a small town?
0:50.0	Where the CEO lives just down the street
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