When the Hormel company proposed a pay cut for its laborers in the mid-eighties, Local P-9 of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union refused to give in.

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"Donate enough money to the Senate GOP as an investment that will end up making their corporation an enormous amount of money, all on the backs of hard-working, taxpaying Americans, " said Patrick Purcell of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, which represents workers in grocery and retail stores, and in food-processing and meat packing companies.

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Members include: ACORN, AFSCME, Americans United for Change, Campaign for America's Future, Center for American Progress Action Fund, MoveOn.org, National Council of La Raza, National Education Association, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Service Employees International Union, United Food and Commercial Workers, and USAction.

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