These were not the words we used in your living room. You did not need for us to tell you that winning a union in your factory would be hard or that the system is rigged in favor of the company. People don’t work in industrial laundries unless they have to. And there is no real space or time that is “free from intimidation” inside the dynamic of trying to build power to be used against your boss at a job you need in order to live. You already knew the company was going to fight. They’ll probably fire all of us, you said, with the hard crack of laugh that I was hearing for the first time and can still hear now.