AUSTIN, Minn. (AP)—A federal mediation session has been scheduled for Monday in the seven-week-old strike by union meatpackers at the Geo. A. Hormel & Co. plant.
It's the first time the two sides have met since some 1,500 members of Local P-9 of the United Food and Commercial Workers union struck the Austin plant on Aug. 17 in a dispute over wages
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and benefits.
Federal mediator Hank Bell set the meeting, but the location was not announced.
Bell has said he had been trying to arrange a meeting before a request last week from Gov. Rudy Perpich to the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service in Minneapolis to resume the talks.
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