In These Times just launched a web only feature on Steven Ashby and C. J. Hawking’s new book Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement.

On December 22, 1995, a slim majority of workers locked-out out of the A.E. Staley Co. plant in Decatur, Ill. voted to accept a company proposal that spelled their own defeat. So ended what was perhaps the longest and most high-profile conflict between a corporation and organized labor to occur during the 1990s.