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The Pajama Game (1957)

20 Apr

101m; U.S.

Director: George Abbott, Stanley Donen

Cast: Doris Day, John Raitt and Carol Haney

Synopsis (IMDB): Employees of the Sleeptite Pajama Factory are looking for a whopping seven-and-a-half cent an hour increase and they won’t take no for an answer. Babe Williams is their feisty employee representative but she may have found her match in shop superintendent Sid Sorokin. When the two get together they wind up discussing a whole lot more than job actions

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Collective Bargaining, Comedy, Manufacturing, Musical, Romance, Women, Working Class

 

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Pensions: The Broken Promise (1972)

20 Apr

39m; U.S.

Director: NBC Television

Synopsis: Inadequacy of pension plans.

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Collective Bargaining, Documentary

 

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Peoes (Metal Workers) [2004]

20 Apr

85m; Brazil

Director: Eduardo Coutinho

Synopsis: 1979 Brazilian Metal Workers Strike.

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Collective Bargaining, Documentary, Labor History, Organizing, Politics, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts

 

The People Speak

20 Apr

113m; U.S.

Director: Tony Sacco

Cast: Marisa Tomei, Josh Brolin, Sean Penn, Matt Damon, Viggo Mortensen, Kerry Washington, Danny Glover, David Strathairn & more

Synopsis: A look at America’s struggles with war, class, race and women’s rights, with actors and actresses reading excerpts of letters, diaries, and speeches from major figures appearing in Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States.”

Contact: http://thepeoplespeak.com Chris Moore: cmoore@goldiemail.com

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Blacks, Class, Collective Bargaining, Documentary, Labor History, Politics

 

People of Cumberland (1937)

20 Apr

18m; U.S.

Director: Sidney Meyers & Jay Leyda

Synopsis: A combination documentary and reenacted drama of the struggle of poor whites in the Cumberland mountains building unions and fighting for their rights with the help of the Highlander Folk School

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Collective Bargaining, Documentary, Labor History, Organizing

 

Placido Rizzotto (2000)

20 Apr

110m; Italy

Director: Pasquale Scimeca

Cast: Marcello Mazzarella, Vincenzo Albanese and Carmelo Di Mazzarelli

Synopsis (IMDB): The real story of Placido Rizzotto, a trade union leader murdered by the mafia in Sicily in 1948.

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Collective Bargaining, Crime-Action, Drama, Organizing, Working Class

 

Potiche (2010)

20 Apr

103m; France

Director: François Ozon

Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu and Fabrice Luchini

Synopsis (IMDB): When her husband is taken hostage by his striking employees, a trophy wife (Deneuve) takes the reins of the family business and proves to be a remarkably effective leader. Business and personal complications arrive in the form of her ex-lover (Depardieu), a former union leader.

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Collective Bargaining, Comedy, Romance, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts

 

Taylor Chain II: A Story of Collective Bargaining (1983)

08 Apr

30m

Directors: Jerry Blumenthal, Gordon Quinn

Synopsis (Kartemquin): In 1981-2, the Kartemquin filmmakers returned to the Taylor Chain plant to show labor and management working together against the odds, trying to save the plant from becoming the latest victim of anti-union legislation and the globalization of cheap, exploitable labor.

 
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Posted by on April 8, 2012 in Collective Bargaining, Documentary, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing

 

Norma Rae (1979)

13 Jan

110m; U.S.

Director: Martin Ritt

Cast: Sally Fields, Beau Bridges, Ron Liebman

Synopsis: Sally Fields won an Oscar for Best Actress for her portrayal of a Southern textile worker in the 1970s.  Faced with problems and challenges both personal and at work, Norma Rae proves receptive to the message of a union organizer seeking to start a drive at her plant.  The film is based on the real story of Crystal Lee Sutton and the ACTWU’s drive to organize JP Stevens’ plants in the South in the 1970s.

 

 

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Posted by on January 13, 2012 in A: Highly Recommended Labor Films, Class, Collective Bargaining, Drama, Labor History, Organizing, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts, Women, Working Class

 

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The Organizer (I Compagni) [1963]

12 Jan

126m; Italy

Director: Mario Monicelli

Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori and Gabriella Giorgelli

Synopsis: Exploited textile factory workers in Turin, Italy at the turn of the century and the beginnings of their fight for better working conditions.

 

 

 

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Posted by on January 12, 2012 in A: Highly Recommended Labor Films, Collective Bargaining, Drama, Labor History, Outsourcing

 
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