Chronicles the six-month strike at Hormel in Austin, Minnesota, in 1985-86.
The local union, P-9 of the Food and Commercial Workers, overwhelmingly rejects a contract offer with a $2/hour wage cut.
They strike and hire a New York consultant to manage a national media campaign against Hormel.
Despite support from P-9's rank and file, FCWU's international disagrees with the strategy.
In addition to union-company tension, there's union-union in-fighting.
Hormel holds firm; scabs, replacement workers, brothers on opposite sides, a union coup d'état, and a new contract materialize.
The film asks, was it worth it, or was the strike a long-term disaster for organized labor?