Editing The Hershey Company (section)

====Unionization====
[[File:Chocolate workers local.jpg|left|thumb|Hershey Union Hall]]
In the late 1930s, Hershey confronted labor unrest as a [[Congress of Industrial Organizations]]-backed union attempted to organize the factory workers. A failed sit-down strike in 1937 ended in violence; loyalist workers and local dairy farmers beat many of the strikers as they attempted to leave the plant. By 1940, an affiliate of the [[American Federation of Labor]] successfully organized Hershey's workers under the leadership of John Shearer, who became the first president of Local Chapter Number 464 of the [[Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers' International Union]]. Local 464 now represents the Hershey workforce.