Netflix subscribers and theatergoers can now watch American Factory, a powerful new documentary about what happens when a manufacturing plant opens in a job-deprived town but the plants owners are callous to workers, hostile to unions and obsessed with profits at any cost.
It is a story that has played out in towns and cities throughout the country for decades. Over a lifetime of advocacy on behalf of workers, I have dealt with numerous company owners who have insisted on their right to pay workers poverty wages, bust unions and pollute the environment, just like the owners…
