Sundance-bound Directors Brett Story and Stephen Maing spent three years embedded with organizer Chris Smalls as he successfully formed the first-ever Amazon Labor Union. By Rebecca Keegan Senior ...
Barbara Kopple’s films Harlan County USA and American Dream captured labor struggle as it was happening: on picket lines, inside unions, and under pressure. Decades later, both remain some of the ...
“Union” is not your grandmother’s organized labor documentary. The film, about the efforts of a group of workers at a Staten Island Amazon warehouse to unionize their colleagues, fits broadly into a ...
After garnering an award at the Sundance Film Festival and glowing reviews, ‘Union’ still didn’t have any major distribution deals on the table — so the filmmakers began planning an unabashedly ...
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Just as the holiday season was going into full-blown commercial overdrive last month, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters launched a nationwide strike against Amazon, primarily among its ...
It’s a strange, seesawing time for labor rights and union power. On the one hand, workers’ concerns are hitting new highs across many sectors, while the Republican presidential candidate barely made ...
Legendary documentarian Barbara Kopple tells us about the long legacy of her Oscar-winning film American Dream.
From Taste of Hope (all images courtesy Open City Documentary Festival) “The difference between a regular business and a worker’s cooperative is that people work, but they’re happy. Right?” This is ...