Author Archives: Labor Film Database
They Don’t Wear Black Tie (Eles não Usam Black-tie) 1981
http://www.seer.ufu.br/index.php/artcultura/article/view/11313/7062
Union leader’s son doesn’t want to engage in a strike, because his wife is pregnant, thus disregarding his father’s tradition of political activism.
Director: Leon Hirszman
Writers: Gianfrancesco Guarnieri (play), Leon Hirszman
Stars: Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, Fernanda Montenegro, Carlos Alberto Riccelli
Right to Vend
Offers a useful window to teach about labor issues, small business issues, urban planning, and how to set up pedestrian-friendly cities. It also links to environmental issues, as reflected in activists urging that the city promote solar-powered carts to replace the propane-driven ones that are currently dominant.”
Stephanie Luce, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies, Films for the Feminist Classroom
Read the full review: http://ffc.twu.edu/issue_10-2/rev_Luce_10-2.html
More info about film: https://twn.org/catalog/pages/responsive/cpage.aspx?rec=1483&card=price Or email twn@twn.org
Solidarity
A film about the secretive methods used against UK activists and trade unionists.
And here is the press release for the film
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OVn5hXe1Oyp1aGIcm8D5luaTx9jSl4_j/edit
Lucy Parkerlucy.c.parker@googlemail.com
COVID SOURDOUGH
short subject documentary about the union organizers at Tartine Bakery in the San Francisco Bay Area who successfully won a tight NLRB election this year despite the headwinds of COVID-19 and a brutal anti-union boss fight that began just weeks before the worldwide closures of March 2020.
Mike Plewa
www.mikeplewa.com
310-570-3763
michaelplewa@gmail.com
filmmaker with AFSCME as well as a documentary MFA candidate at UCLA
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