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Stories From The Mines (2004)

07 May

57m; U.S.

Director: Thomas M. Curr and Greg Matkosky

Synopsis: Stories from the Mines chronicles the struggle of these miners to earn a decent wage, alleviate dangerous working conditions, and gain respect. The perilous work the miners performed for extremely low pay laid the foundation for America’s Industrial Revolution and the modern labor movement. Great Strike of 1902; United Mine Workers; anthracite coal; strikes.

Contact: http://www.aptonline.org/catalog.nsf/GenreLookup/A561F47E25B2B94885256C440059138E http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&bookkey=231727

 
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Posted by on May 7, 2012 in Documentary, Labor History, Organizing, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts

 

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Strike (Strajk – Die Heldin von Danzig) [2006]

07 May

104m; Poland/Germany

Director: Volker Schlöndorff

Cast: Katharina Thalbach, Andrzej Chyra and Dominique Horwitz

Synopsis: Shows the beginnings of Poland’s Solidarity movement through the little-known figure of Anna Walentynowicz. The latest film from the director of The Tin Drum tells the true story of an ordinary woman who helped spark a revolution in Poland. Shipyard welder Agnieszka (Katharina Thalbach), concerned about dangerous working conditions, speaks up to no avail. After an accident kills several employees and their families are denied pension benefits, she steps up her activities, becoming a union leader and powerful adviser to Lech Walesa, laying the foundation for the Solidarity movement.

Contact: http://www.e.bell.ca/filmfest/2006/home/default.asp

 
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Posted by on May 7, 2012 in Netflix Watch Instantly, Organizing, Politics, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts, Women, Working Class

 

Strikebound (1984)

07 May

101m; Australia

Director: Richard Lowenstein

Cast: Chris Haywood, Carol Burns and Hugh Keays-Byrne

Synopsis: The first real coal-miners strike in 1930’s Australia told through the struggles of Agnes and Wattie Doig, two lovable rogue characters. Lowenstein’s approach is simple and effective with a documentary feel about it. A leftist film worth marching for.

 
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Posted by on May 7, 2012 in Drama, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts

 

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (“Bar Association”)

07 May

45m; U.S.

Director: LeVar Burton

Cast: Armin Shimerman, Avery Brooks, Colm Meany, Max Grodénchik

Synopsis: Episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine where the employees of Quark’s bar decide to organize a union.

 
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Posted by on May 7, 2012 in Collective Bargaining, SciFi, Service Workers, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts

 

Strumpet City (1980)

07 May

360m; Ireland

Cast: Frank Grimes, David Kelly, Angela Harding, Peter O’Toole

Synopsis (IMDB): Covering the years between 1907 and 1914, Strumpet City follows several characters through the nightmare years of the “Dublin Lockout,” when the Catholic Church sided with the industrialists to smash Irish labor’s first substantive steps towards unionizing. Using the real-life labor organizer Jim Larkin (Peter O’Toole) as the dramatic lynchpin for the various stories, Strumpet City juggles several storylines to give an overall view of the terrible poverty and misery that afflicted the working poor of Dublin. The central story revolves around Mary (Angela Harding), a young domestic who comes to work for the wealthy, oblivious Bradshaws (Edward Byrne and Daphne Carroll). Once Mary meets handsome, kind foundry worker “Fitz” Fitzpatrick (Bryan Murray), she immediately falls in love, and the couple make plans to save enough money to eventually marry. Mary, distressed at the way the Bradshaws shuttle off their devoted housekeeper Miss Gilchrist (Mairin D. O’Sullivan) to the poor house when she can no longer work, decides to leave the insensitive Bradshaw household and marry Fitz.

–http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/26709/strumpet-city/

 
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Posted by on May 7, 2012 in Class, Collective Bargaining, Drama, Organizing, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts

 

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TWU Local 234 SEPTA Transit Strike: Day 3 (2010)

07 May

2m; U.S.

Director: Mary Matthews

Synopsis: Philadelphia’s SEPTA transit workers, having gone without a contract since March 2009, continue to strike for a fair pension.

Contact: Mary C. Matthews Interactive Media Producer/Director Transport Workers Union of America 1700 Broadway 2nd Floor New York, NY 10019 Office: 212-259-4903 E-mail: mmatthews@twu.org

 
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Posted by on May 7, 2012 in Documentary, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts, Transportation

 

Taylor Chain I: A Story In A Local Union

07 May

33m; U.S.
Director: Jerry Blumenthal, Gordon Quinn
https://www.kartemquin.com/films/taylor-chain-i-a-story-in-a-union-local

Synopsis (IMDB): Taylor Chain I tells the gritty realities of a seven-week strike at a small Indiana chain factory. Volatile union meetings and tension-filled interactions on the picket line provide an inside view of the tensions and conflicts inherent to labor negotiations.

 
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Posted by on May 7, 2012 in Collective Bargaining, Documentary, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts

 

Professional Revolutionary: The Life of Saul Wellman (2004)

26 Apr

65m; U.S.

Director: Judith Montell & Ronald Aronson

Synopsis (Wikipedia): Under-educated, Wellman fought in the army, worked in a car factory for Ford and was employed at a printing company; Wellman fought against Fascism in both the Spanish Civil War and World War II. Wellman returned home at the start of the Cold War, to help organize and lead the Communist Party in America. Then when the 60s came along, Wellman latched onto the civil rights movement. The documentary deals with wheelchair-using Wellman, during the last years of his life, at an Iraq war protest. Throughout his life, Wellman was an organizer and passionate speaker.

 
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Posted by on April 26, 2012 in Documentary, Labor History, Organizing, Politics, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts, Unemployment-Wages, War, Working Class

 

Ramparts of Clay (1971)

26 Apr

80m; France

Director: Jean-Louis Bertuccelli

Cast: Leila Shenna, Kricheche and Jean-Louis Trintignant

Synopsis (IMDB): In 1962, change comes to a Tunisian village on the edge of the Sahara. An entrepreneur sets up a salt mine, hiring village men. When he pays only half the wages agreed upon, they sit down in a field of rocks. The boss calls the army, who encircle the strikers. The women watch, sacrifice a sheep, pray, ululate. During the second night, a young woman hides the bucket and rope of the town’s well to keep water from the army. The strike galvanizes her: she’s learning to read and has studied a city woman who visits the village. Now, as she removes her traditional dress and rejects a ritual to cast out her new rebellious spirit, will she gain independence as did Tunisia and the strikers

 
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Posted by on April 26, 2012 in Drama, Organizing, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts, Women

 

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Ratcatcher (1999)

26 Apr

94m; U.K.

Director: Lynne Ramsay

Cast: Tommy Flanagan, Mandy Matthews and William Eadie

Synopsis (IMDB): Glasgow, summer, 1973. Dustmen are striking; bags of garbage add to the blight of council flats and a fetid canal. Ryan, who’s about 12, drowns during a play fight with his neighbor, the jug-eared James. James runs home, a flat where he lives with his often-drunk da, his ma, and sisters, who live in hope of moving to newly-built council flats. The slice-of-life, coming-of-age story follows James as he tags along with the older lads; has a friendship with his quirky wee rodent-loving neighbor, Kenny; spends time with Margaret Anne, myopic, slightly older, the local sexual punching bag; and, has a moment or two of joy. The strike may end, but is there any way out for James?

 
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Posted by on April 26, 2012 in Children, Drama, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts

 
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