People don't realize that industrial laundries exist and that they're filled with hundreds of workers who work long shifts in dangerous conditions. And assume it leave the workers who are risking life and limb to clean your laundry for your restaurant or your hospital are making a living wage given that the work is very dangerous and potentially hazardous to their health. There's a whole regional campaign of Union industrial laundry workers demanding a living wage.
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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