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Motown South
(Samuel George, 2025, 20 min, Georgia)
EV companies are investing in the US South because of cheap labor, and what workers and unions are doing about it.
Limerent Pittsburgh
(Anne Ciecko, 2025, 3 min, USA)
The revisited rust belt city is a site of rekindling of memories and mythologies of labor and family in this video poem.
Bargaining Forward
(Colleen Butler, 2024, 22 min, Canada)
With unity and resilience, 22,000 public sector workers in New Brunswick, Canada, strike against wage suppression. The strategic mobilization and collective bargaining efforts by the Canadian Union of Public Employees culminates in a province-wide movement that successfully challenges austerity and sparks labour action across Canada.
COVID Sourdough
(Michael Plewa, 2024, 16 min, Berkeley)
Union organizers at Tartine Bakery in the San Francisco Bay Area successfully won a tight NLRB election despite a brutal fight with the anti-union boss that began just weeks before the worldwide closures of March 2020 due to COVID-19.
Speakers: filmmakers Samuel George, Anne Ciecko & Michael Plewa and union leader Sandy Harding will be in attendance to present their films.