Zhang Mengru
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Norma Rae depicts a story of Union formation, in which Norma Rae was a spinster in a plant and then become a main organizer of the Union. This movie involves some topics related to labor relations, which, as Vicki Fairbanks Taylor and Michael J. Provitera summarized (2011), are Labor Organizing, Union Avoidance Strategies and Unfair Labor Practices and Reasons Why Workers Join Unions.
As reflected by the movie, Reuben and Norma Rae hand out handbills to workers to propagandize the benefits of joining a Union as well as give speech in a church and hold a discussion about workers’ dissatisfaction towards the mill to persuade them to be a member of Union. And finally the workers vote through the Union. And during the period Norma and Reuben tried to persuade …show more content…
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