25m; Ireland
Director: Give It A Go Productions
Synopsis: How solidarity worked in the 2005 Irish Ferries dispute.
Category Archives: Collective Bargaining
SPTU/Irish Ferries Dispute (2005)
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Posted by Metro Council on April 26, 2012 in Collective Bargaining, Documentary
Millions of Us (1936)
20m; U.S.
Director: American Labor Productions
Synopsis: Scab turned unionist advocate
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Posted by Metro Council on April 20, 2012 in Collective Bargaining, Documentary, Organizing
Mills of the Gods (1934)
66m; U.S.
Director: Roy William Neill
Synopsis: With the family plow factory on the verge of going belly up, matriarch May Robson finds her trust fund kids just don’t give a darn, but as rioting workers battle police, granddaughter Fay Wray finds solidarity and love with union leader Victor Jory.
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Posted by Metro Council on April 20, 2012 in Collective Bargaining, Drama, Organizing, Romance, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts, Working Class
Mine War on Blackberry Creek (1986)
28m; U.S.
Director: Anne Lewis
Synopsis: The documentary of the strike of the UMWA coal miners against the A.T. Massey Co., a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell and the Flour Corp. This is an intimate look at both workers and strikebreakers. This area of WV is where mine wars have been fought since the 1920’s.
Contact: Anne Lewis 512-656-0507 (cell) http://www.annelewis.org
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Posted by Metro Council on April 20, 2012 in Collective Bargaining, Documentary, Labor History, Organizing, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts
Tags: Mining
Mine Wars (2004)
55m; U.S.
Director: Bill Richardson
Synopsis: Bill Richardson tells of the coal miners’ war for freedom through the use of film, telling this powerful and important story in the context of U.S. history. The critically acclaimed feature film uses over 800 vintage photos and music of the era to convey a sense of time and place.
Contact: Bill Richardson 29 Skyview Drive, Apt. #1, Belfry, KY 41514; e-mail brichard@wvu.edu.
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Posted by Metro Council on April 20, 2012 in Collective Bargaining, Documentary, Labor History, Organizing, Politics, Safety & Health, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts, War, Working Class
Tags: Mining
Mittal’s Gain, Workers’ Pain (2009)
8m; Belguim
Synopsis: The film is part of a series about industrial actions taken by the European Metalworkers’ Federation with the aim to highlight the difficult state the metalworking industry is in and to show that workers are stronger together. The EMF uses it with affiliates and work council members to strengthen moral and to show that the struggle is not about only one plant but that the fight concerns all workers at ArcelorMittal around the globe.
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Posted by Metro Council on April 20, 2012 in Class, Collective Bargaining, Documentary, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing
Mother Jones: America’s Most Dangerous Woman (2007)
23m; U.S.
Director: Rosemary Feurer & Laura Vazquez
Synopsis: Short, effective doc about legendary labor heroine Mary Harris Jones, the legendary labor heroine known as Mother Jones, examining the ways that Jones’ organizing career influenced early 20th century American history. The film demonstrates how the labor leader used class and gender boundaries to shape an identity that allowed her to become an effective labor organizer in the early 20th century. The documentary also evokes the terrible conditions and labor oppression that motivated Jones to traverse the country, mobilizing thousands to fight back. The film uses authentic photographs and live footage, including the only known film of Mother Jones on her deathbed, proclaiming that she still considered herself a radical and “longs for the day when labor will have the destination of the nation in her own hands.”
Contact: www.motherjonesmuseum.org http://www.laborheritagefoundation.org / Laura Vazquez, PHD, dept of Comm, Northern Illinois University, 815-753-7132 lvazquez@niu.edu Rosemary Feurer”
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Posted by Metro Council on April 20, 2012 in Collective Bargaining, Documentary, Labor History, Organizing, Politics, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts, Women, Working Class
Tags: Mining
Native Land (1942)
80m; U.S.
Director: Leo Hurwitz, Paul Strand
Cast: Paul Robeson, Fred Johnson and Mary George
Synopsis (IMDB): Paul Robeson narrates a mix of dramatizations and archival footage about the bill of rights being under attack during the 1930s by union busting corporations, their spies and contractors. In dramatizations, we see a farmer beaten for speaking up at a meeting, a union man murdered in a boarding house, two sharecroppers near Fort Smith Arkansas shot by men deputized by the local sheriff, a spy stealing the names of union members, and a dead Chicago union man eulogized. In archival footage we witness police and goons beating lawfully assembled union organizers, and we see men at work and union families at play. The narration celebrates patriotism and democracy.
Net Worth (1995)
120m; U.S.
Director: Jerry Ciccoritti
Cast: Aidan Devine, Kevin Conway and Robin Gammell
Synopsis (IMDB): The story of the NHL’s early years, focusing on the battle between the players, led by Hall of Famer Ted Lindsay, and the owners, over issues of benefits, pensions and the like
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Posted by Metro Council on April 20, 2012 in Collective Bargaining, Documentary, Sports
Tags: Wages
Newsies (1992)
121m; U.S.
Director: Kenny Ortega
Cast: Christian Bale, Bill Pullman and Robert Duvall
Synopsis (IMDB): July, 1899: When Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise the distribution price one-tenth of a cent per paper, ten cents per hundred, the newsboys, poor enough already, are outraged. Inspired by the strike put on by the trolley workers, Jack “Cowboy” Kelly (Christian Bale) organizes a newsboys’ strike. With David Jacobs (David Moscow) as the brains of the new union, and Jack as the voice, the weak and oppressed found the strength to band together and challenge the powerful.
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Posted by Metro Council on April 20, 2012 in Children, Class, Collective Bargaining, Drama, Labor History, Musical, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts
Tags: Journalism
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