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In today's labor history, on this date in 1991, in what many believe was to become the longest strike in U.S. history, 600 Teamster-represented workers walked out at the Diamond Walnut processing plant in Stockton, California after the company refused to restore a 30 percent pay cut they had earlier taken to help out the company. The two sides ultimately agreed to a new contract after 14 years. Today’s labor quote is by Delores Smith, one of the Diamond Walnut strikers who stayed out for the whole strike, fulfilling a promise to her father before the Teamster driver, business agent and local president died in 1993. Delores Smith, who said: "I promised him before he died that I wouldn't give this up, and I kept my promise."
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