The building of that community was one of the most amazing parts of the years that I spent in Phoenix. These are workers that got to know each other cross factories in Phoenix because of the organizing fights that they were all helping each other through. They created a kind of phone tree that was in a kind of a rapid response system, and they were going to show up for each other at their houses or their apartments to confront an abuser and support each other. That seems like an incredible example of the kind of miraculous transformation that that spring out in all kinds of directions that come from that initial experience of organizing at the workplace.
Featuring Daisy Pitkin on her book On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union, a memoir that powerfully captures the drama of an organizing drive—and so much more.
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