Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.
This movie contains 6 potentially triggering events.
Norma's dad dies. She is an adult at the time, and though we see him die at work, and see his coffin being lowered into the ground, we don't see anyone's reaction to his death, and it isn't mentioned again.
Norma is having a casual affair with a married man, and the union organizer take of having slept with a married woman and getting caught by the husband.
The main character is a very slim and petite woman who, at the beginning of the movie, says she's dieting when asked why she only has an apple for lunch. Later, in response to being told she's beautiful, she says she was "good at 18", but that "things have kinda slipped and slid" and that she's alright with the lights out.