Norma Rae: Low Paid Worker In A Cotton Mill

Norma Rae is a film about a factory worker named Norma Rae. Norma was a low paid worker in a cotton mill. The cotton mill has poor working conditions and Norma took over the roll for the family to work and provide. She’s a single mother who provides for her family. She has two kids and both kids have different dads. She does however have a few guys that she flirts with and has things with. She Is against the company as a whole though because of the work environment and the way they treat their employees.

Basically she starts to complain about how the company is not taking care of their employees. The management decides to try to promote her to get her to keep quiet. She takes the promotion because of the pay raise but then soon realizes that it was the wrong choice. Its her dad that actually convinces her to

They start changing a lot of how the company shifts are ran which makes workers do more work at less pay. They even put up fliers with racial remarks to try to divide the white and black workers. Warshowsky tries to take pictures of the fliers to help the court case but management sends Warshowsky out and doesn’t let him take the picture. Norma makes a sign that says “UNION” and starts to show all the workers. Suddenly all the workers stop working and no one says a word. Norma went to jail because of what she did.

After all this the factory has a vote on if they want the factory to become unionized. TV news cast and reporters report the entire thing. The difference of votes was 100 and it was in favor to unionize the factory.

Norma did a really amazing thing by standing up for workers rights and by not letting any of the obstacles she faced on the way stop her from her main goal. Unionization of the factory will help protect every employee and set standards of safety so no one will get hurt and also protect the amount they get