Al Davidoff, a former Cornell student leader turned custodian and union president, discusses the fifteen-year fight of low-paid custodians, cooks, and gardeners at Cornell University to organize a union. The memoir reveals the creative and feisty strategies used in the fight for livable wages, dignity, and economic justice. Davidoff's story also addresses the intersections of racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia and highlights the power of fighting unions against antidemocratic and white supremacist forces.