A welder from South Korea is calling for her reinstatement to the shipyard where she was fired for union activity thirty-five years ago. This campaign will likely be the last one waged by Kim Jin-suk against her deadly, anti-union employer, Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction Co., Ltd.

Kim first made international headlines in 2011 after she sat atop a 115-foot shipyard crane for 309 days demanding that Hanjin reverse its massive layoffs. Her occupation was successful, with the company rehiring nearly a hundred unionists after a social movement inspired by her sit-in broke out across the country.

Now, on a sickbed fighting breast cancer, the sixty-year-old Kim wants to return to work before she reaches mandatory retirement age at the end of the year. But so far, the government hasn’t budged — despite the fact that Moon Jae-in, the human rights lawyer who once defended her labor rights in the courtroom and fought together with her on the streets for their country’s democracy is now the president of the country.