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

It was not just money at stake, but the underlying principle of respecting workers’ humanity, which served as the justification for many of the existing benefits. “The reason why we get premium pay on weekends is because weekends are premium time for your family. If the company is taking that time away from you and your family—weddings, funerals, barbecues, birthdays, most people celebrate on weekends. So if you’re going to be forcing us to work, we’re earning premium pay for that.”