Labor Union Movies

This film demonstrates how labor law has crippled the collective bargaining power of unions and weighed the scales of justice against working people....

An explosion in one of the largest chemical plants in Europe, the Petrochemical complex in Tarragona, triggers the labour struggle of a group of...

An in-depth look at the early 2011 crisis for public sector unions in Wisconsin, and why it matters in Alberta.

Documents the Cockatoo Island Dockyard occupation and industrial actions of 1989.

Chronicles the industrial action leading up to the deregistration of the Builders Labourers Federation.

A historical drama set in 1889, Chandler's Mill examines the plight of workers, and particularly child workers, in the New Brunswick wool industry....

Athletic star William Russell puts on his boxing gloves for this waterfront drama.

In response to the Detroit riots of 1967, where racial tensions in the city reached a breaking point, the city decided that the way to resolve these...

A description of the work of a research director of a United Steel Workers Union in Canada. The painstaking research and analyses of economic...

In the 1970's, filmmakers Tom Burger, Bill McKiggan and Chuck Lapp began documenting the history and current struggles of inshore fishermen in...

Sulan, who works in a factory in the summer of 1978, begins learning photos with other female workers from Seok-yoon, the owner of the photo studio...

In the second largest school district in the United States, 98% of teachers vote to authorize a strike. Watch as one of the largest educator strikes...

The story of how a group of baristas in Buffalo, New York announce their intention to form a labor union, and how Starbucks responds with an...

This documentary film traces the struggle of Indian auto workers of the Maruti Suzuki factory in Manesar, near Delhi, in forming a union....

Traces the story of the 25-year struggle of Fieldcrest-Cannon textile workers to form a union in the face of modernization and globalization.

Out of Office is the story of a scrappy group of office workers in Wisconsin who managed to pull off a major victory for workers’ rights. Upon...

Presents a case history of a grievance case from the initial causes to the final settlement. Shows how grievance hearings enable labor unions and...

This film takes us into the harsh realm of BC's early coal mines, canneries, and lumber camps; where primitve conditions and speed-ups often cost...

When a local mining company dares to provide its workers a fair wage for a fair day's work, and lets its workers unionize, the kingdom's villainous...