Kates puts residents at risk every day by not providing adequate training for officers. But, not only areresidents being harmed, so are the families of the many officers like Latoya who find it difficult to makeends meet on low wages.

"Having the union will help us give us workers some security. Coming together in a union means the company will have people to answer to,” she says.

Six years later, more people have begun to galvanize around a $15 minimum wage as well, but we sometimes forget the people pushing, organizing and sustaining that early movement were unions and workers who know the value of union representation.