The inside story of Polmaise Colliery and the miners who were the first to walk out and the last to go back to work during the miners' strike.
Shattered Glass: A WNBPA Story dives deep into the lives beyond the court of the next generation of basketball luminaries, Jonquel Jones, Nneka Ogwumike, and Breanna Stewart, as well as WNBA legend, Sheryl Swoopes. From intense off-season routines to the intricacies of family dynamics to navigating the politics of women's sports, this documentary offers viewers a rare, all-encompassing look at the athletes as holistic individuals.
In the second largest school district in the United States, 98% of teachers vote to authorize a strike. Watch as one of the largest educator strikes in modern U.S. history unfolds in real-time, highlighting the stories and leadership of some of the women who led it, from union leaders to classroom teachers. From strike vote to contract vote, When We Fight goes behind the picket lines, documenting how and why teachers strike. "This powerful and beautifully crafted film is a must watch for anyone interested in the state of labor in America today."
- Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor and Professor of Public Policy, UC Berkeley
The super-rich determines virtually every aspect of the lives of the other 90% of Americans. This film examines the hidden struggles of American families, the calculated political maneuvers of the elite, and the long overdue uprising of American workers. With affection for the middle-class and the outrageous attempt to color them as lazy, the film explores the question: How do we make sure workers are paid what they are worth, instead of believing they are only worth what they are paid?
A documentary film showcasing the ascension of the state of Virginia from its rank of 51st worst state for labor unions, to 23rd, in a matter of just three years.
폴란드에 사는 로버트는 노르웨이 해안에 있는 생선 공장에서 일하기 위해 이사한다. 로버트는 공장에서 일하며 노동 조합원인 이바르와 사랑에 빠지지만, 자신의 성적 취향을 다른 폴란드 이민자에게서 숨기고 있다. 로버트의 이런 상황은 노동 파업으로 인해 더욱 복잡하게 진행 되는데...
In 1910, women working in the silk industry in Bursa, protest against the working conditions. They go on strike.
A portrait of Chicagoland ICU nurse Jeanette Alvarez-Basem captured through the perspective of her son Ben Basem. Between her night shifts and Illinois Nurses Association union meetings, Jeanette navigates what it means to be a nurse and a human during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
On the 5th of March 1985, a crowd gathered in a South Yorkshire pit village to watch a sight none of them had seen in a year. The villagers, many of them in tears, cheered and clapped as the men of Grimethorpe Colliery marched back to work accompanied by the village’s world-famous brass band. The miners and their families had endured months of hardship. It had all been for nothing. The miners had lost the strike called on March 6th 1984. They would lose a lot more in the years to come. But was it a good thing for the country that the miners lost their last battle?
An explosion in one of the largest chemical plants in Europe, the Petrochemical complex in Tarragona, triggers the labour struggle of a group of workers who demand what is fair for everyone.
Shimu, 23, works in a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Faced with difficult conditions at work, she decides to start a union with her co-workers. Despite threats from the management and disapproval of her husband, Shimu is determined to go on. Together the women must fight and find a way to register their union.
2000년, 양로원에서 쓸쓸하게 늙어가는 프랭크 시런은 1975년 빌 버팔리노의 딸 결혼식 참석을 위해 길을 떠났던 날을 회상한다. 영화는 제2차 세계대전에 참전했던 노동자 출신의 프랭크가 어떻게 청부살인업자로 활약하게 됐는지 따라가며 주변 인물과 관계를 조명한다. 지미 호파는 전미운수노조의 수장으로서 막강한 권력을 누리고, 프랭크 시런을 범죄로 끌어들인 러셀 버팔리노는 살해 건수를 배당하는 설계자다. 법무장관으로 지명된 로버트 케네디의 견제, 그로 인한 지미의 감옥행은 나비효과처럼 예기치 못한 결과로 이어지는데...
Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Solidarity), the first independent trade union behind the Iron Curtain. The long and hard battle to bring down communist dictatorship has begun.
1976년 스페인 비토리아 노동자들이 파업 시위를 벌이고, 이를 진압하려는 경찰. 그 과정에 얽힌 사람들의 이야기
Discontent, radicalism, and violence permeated the U.S. Northwest in the early decades of the twentieth century. Tens of thousands of workers migrated for jobs in logging, mining, and fishing - where they found poverty-level wages, crushing hours, and dreadful conditions. The conflict becomes part of a decades-long struggle involving tragedies such as the Everett Massacre (1916), the Seattle General Strike (1919), and the Centralia Massacre (1919).
78년 여름 공장에서 일하고 있는 설란은 공장 맞은편 사진관 주인인 석윤에게 다른 여공들과 사진을 배우기 시작한다. 폐쇄적이던 석윤도 점차 여공들에게 마음을 열기 시작하지만 여공들의 노동 운동에 불안해지기 시작한다.
Since its adoption in June 1955 by the Congress movement, the Freedom Charter has been the key political document that acted as a beacon and source of inspiration in the liberation struggle against Apartheid. It was reputedly the main source that informed democratic South Africa’s liberal constitution and a constant reference point for the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and rival political parties that it spawned since 1994, all claiming the Freedom Charter’s legacy. Freedom Isn’t Free assesses the history and role of the charter, especially in relation to key political and socio-economic aspects of developments in South Africa up to the present period. It includes rare archival footage with interviews of a cross-section of outspoken influential South Africans.
큰 폭의 인건비 절감 및 기록적인 이익에도 불구하고, 페랑 산업의 경영진은 공장폐쇄를 결정한다. 1,100명의 직원들은 직장을 잃지 않기 위해 대변인 로랑 아메데오를 앞세워 회사의 잔인한 결정에 맞서 싸우기로 한다.