Case 1
Contains 249 Results:
Now Is The Time (AFL-CIO), 1990
A look at the problems of the current -health-care system, and the need for a national system and union activism
Occupation: A Film About The Harvard Living Wage Sit-In, 2002
An in depth recount of the living-wage sit-in at Harvard University, where students, community members, labor unions, and underpaid university workers banded together to successfully raise the living wage over a 2 week period. Directed by Maple Razasa and Pacho Velez for Enmasse Films, narrated by Ben Affleck.
On Any Day: A Visit to Four LA Neighborhoods, 1994
Four LA communities-East LA, Koreatown, Pico-Union, and South Central-and their attempt to attract tourists into their areas. Shows what each community has to offer to journalists here for the 1994 World Cup
One Day Longer: The Story of the Frontier Strike, 1996
Documentary about the strike at Frontier Casino in Las Vegas, which began in 1991 and ended with a victory for the Culinary Workers Union in 1998. Includes footage of speeches by Cesar Chavez, Jesse Jackson, and national labor leaders. Directed by Joe Daughtery, produced by HERE Local 226
Organizando Uniones: La Perspectiva Católica, 1993
Documentary about the importance of unions and union organizing from the perspective of the Catholic church.
Organizing Unions: The Catholic Perspective, 1993
This short video produced by the Labor Institute of Public Affairs (AFL-CIO) features an interview with "Labor's Priest" Monsignor George Higgins (1916-2002), who supported the UAW, the United Farmworkers, and the Gdansk Shipyard strikes in Poland, among other causes
Organize Now/Organizate Ahora, 1995
Promotional video for HERE with featuring speeches and call to organize. Produced by Local 11 HERE and Local 814 HERE.
Organizing Institute Compilation Video, undated
Video by the Labor Intitute of Public Affairs (AFL-CIO) that features footage from the AFL-CIO Organizing Institute
Organizing... The Job That Changes Lives, bulk: 2, 1993
Produced by the AFL-CIO Organizing Institute
Organizing: The Road to Dignity, bulk: 2, undated
A reinactment of the 3-step, unionizing process: (1)Getting Authorization Cards, (2) The Election, and (3) The Contract. Poultry, Grocery, and Retail workers represented. Film by the United Food & Commercial Workers Union, AFL-CIO.