Headline : Sioux Falls slaughterhouse strike brought fistfights, rocks, riot police

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Editor's note: This archival Vault article was first published Sept. 2, 2021.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — There were fistfights in the street. And trucks blocked at the loading dock.

It was spring, 1987. And Sioux Falls' largest employer — a slaughterhouse built like a fortress — had shuddered to a stop as over 2,500 workers honored a picket line, effectively walking off the job.

Over the course of the next six months, the saga of the assembly-line butchers at John Morrell and Co. would incur a local judge's wrath, test a town's loyalties, and ultimately become a casualty of a bitter fight waged by the Reagan Administration against labor interests. Regarding the "effectiveness" of the United Food & Commercial Workers' Union strike, sociologist Bradley Nash with Appalachian State University wrote in his 2000 dissertation, which looked at labor law in the 1980s, "the UFCW's efforts would be deemed a failure."

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