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What does it take to fight back when you’re hopelessly outgunned?

At the height of Covid, as America’s nursing homes became mass graves, a small, militant healthcare union took on some of the most powerful corporate interests in the country—and the state government that funded them. The workers at the center of the fight were low-paid certified nursing assistants, overwhelmingly Black and brown women, labeled “essential” while treated as expendable.

Warrior is a deeply reported narrative from inside that struggle.

At its center is Jesse Martin, an angry, relentless white union organizer who believes that winning requires confrontation, not compromise. As nursing-home chains prioritize profit over lives, and politicians look the other way, Jesse pushes workers to rediscover a dangerous, forgotten idea: that collective power only exists if you are willing to fight for it.

Based on months of on-the-ground reporting, Warrior traces contract battles, internal union conflicts, racial and class tensions, and moments of raw courage as healthcare workers challenge corporate greed in one of the most unequal sectors of American capitalism. It exposes how income inequality is enforced—not abstractly, but through budgets, staffing ratios, and quiet decisions that decide who lives and who dies.

For readers on the left feeling political despair, this book is a reminder that change has never come from moral persuasion alone. And for anyone in the labor movement, Warrior offers a bracing truth: unions don’t win by being liked. They win by being feared.