The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor Highlight

A staple of corporate anti-union rhetoric is the assertion that the union is a “third party,” trying to stick its bureaucratic beak between the employees and managers in order to siphon off dues money. That lie tends to wither when the union is represented by someone like Dao, who overflows with earnestness, who has lived the struggle herself, and whose motivation is to bring to others the mechanism she found for salvation.