If a company fires a worker leader for leading union organizing as they did with Alma in the case of this factory. She was fired, leading a work stoppage to deliver a petition demanding that the company stop breaking labor law. And months and months later they were ordered to give her her job back. If they have no financial penalty, they don't have to pay any sort of fine for breaking the law. That's the stiffest penalty. The greatest justice that can be delivered through this system that we have currently is disastrous.
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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