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

There were more than three million fast food workers in America. It was one of the most common low-wage jobs in the country. And it was almost completely untouched by organized labor. Though Nicholson was doing nothing more than following her instincts about basic fairness, she had launched one of the very few active fast food union drives in the United States at the time.