His posture is pitched forward like a battering ram. Inside, there's no boss, just more underpaid workers. Garcia takes advantage of the time alone with them, though. Everyone's amiable enough with the Mexican-born Garcia, until he pitches the idea of fighting their boss for more money.
Friendly looks turn into glassy-eyed stares.
Garcia, however, is not deterred. Even after the workers don't respond, he promises to visit some of them at their cramped SeaTac apartment that night. Union organizing isn't what it used to be. Now he's an organizer himself, representing one of the Seattle area's most progressive unions, the International Union of Painters and Allied Traders District Council No. 5. It doesn't matter about their nationality.