'"Looking out for people and making sure people are treated fairly has always been in our family morals,” [Kain] Colter said in an interview with The Associated Press in Bradenton, Fla., where he is training for the NFL draft. "Obviously people come from different backgrounds and different situations, but everybody deserves to be treated fairly and they deserve basic rights and basic protections."
'Colter’s grandmother, Betty Flagg, died last month and was buried in some of his Northwestern gear. She only watched television when the Wildcats were playing. Colter, 21, said he thinks his grandmother would be proud of his role in the unionization effort.
'"We were talking at the funeral and they were telling stories about how she came from picking cotton to working as an office manager in the firm," he said. The attorney at the firm described how she fought for certain employees to receive fair bonuses for their work.
'"She was doing that, fighting for their rights and fighting for them to be treated fairly, basically," Colter said.
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