serk (sherp_68)

Race #3535

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Official speed 91.45 wpm (47.76 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start October 29, 2009 8:04:13pm UTC
Race Finish October 29, 2009 8:05:01pm UTC
Outcome No win (3 of 3)
Points 0.00
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Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the winter and then laying them off when the work slowed down, Jay had instituted a system of paying workers a steady wage year-round. A 1937 Fortune magazine article about this and other progressive labor policies at Hormel might well shock those familiar only with the company's labor relations in the 1980s.