Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor Highlight

The case ended up in front of the Supreme Court, which ultimately reversed the decision and set a devastating precedent that, even under the First Amendment, prisoners have no legal right to join a union. To his credit, Justice Thurgood Marshall dissented, writing, “The Court, in apparent fear of a prison reform organization that has the temerity to call itself a ‘union,’ takes a giant step backwards toward that discredited conception of prisoners’ rights and the role of the courts.”