View Pit Stop page for race #1973 by hotd — Ghost race
| Official speed | 55.43 wpm (78.80 seconds elapsed during race) |
|---|---|
| Race Start | August 26, 2009 8:28:42am UTC |
| Race Finish | August 26, 2009 8:30:01am UTC |
| Outcome | Win (1 of 2) |
| Points | 0.00 |
| Text | #394 (Length: 364 characters) 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. |