Since the NLRB is not going to save dollar store workers, “we need to learn how to [organize] ourselves,” says a worker.

When a Dollar General stocker named David Williams saw two of his co-workers struggling to subdue a would-be shoplifter who was carrying a knife in 2019, the then-33-year-old kept his mouth shut. Later, when a co-worker asked him why he did nothing, Williams told him the truth. “I said, ‘No offense, but I only get paid one time, and that is to be a stocker,’” said Williams…

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