andrew (vargonium)

Race #1343

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Official speed 93.59 wpm (46.67 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start November 4, 2013 7:43:58pm UTC
Race Finish November 4, 2013 7:44:44pm UTC
Outcome No win (2 of 5)
Opponents 3. drdynamic (92.37 wpm)
4. chwazt (86.56 wpm)
5. metempsychosis (82.19 wpm)
Accuracy 95.0%
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.