 Using her dry humor, McAlevey also wrote several books about organizing and workers taking control over their unions. But in April, McAlevey wrote on her website that she was entering hospice while battling a rare blood cancer, and thanked the tens of thousands of organizers she worked with in her lifetime. She died at her home in Muir Beach, California. She was 59 years old. For NPR News, I'm Brian Krantz.