Books and films

Dolores

Liquidation

This film retraces the entire conflict between the management of Goodyear and the employees of the Amiens-Nord factory. The result of a long investigation, it looks back at the struggle of these workers to defend their jobs.

Thank you, boss! / Merci patron!

Jocelyne and Serge Klur worked at a factory near Valenciennes that produced Kenzo clothing for the LVMH group. After production was relocated to Poland, the couple lost their jobs, fell into debt, and faced losing their home.

Like lions / Comme des Lions

The film about the workers of PSA Aulnay, fighting against the closure of their factory.

7 minuti

The textile company Varazzi, with a female workforce, is bought by French partners. The new owners propose that the factory council reduce the lunch break by 7 minutes in order to optimize production.

Panamerican Machinery / Maquinaria Panamericana

It seems like any other Friday at Maquinaria Panamericana S.A., a company specializing in the sale and repair of construction and destruction machinery. The employees prepare for the coveted weekend, wasting time on little rituals and routines, until an unexpected twist snaps them out of their peaceful monotony.

The Mechanics of Trade Unions

An anti-union film about MPRA.

Blood on the Mountain

In Dubious Battle

In 1933, two union organizers go to the California valley intending to initiate a strike among the apple pickers. But to encourage the workers to rise up, it is necessary to wait for the opportune moment…A powerful and conflicting film that could be read as sharply anti-union.

Union Time: Fighting for Workers' Rights

Union Time: Fighting for Workers’ Rights follows the story of workers at the Smithfield Pork Processing plant in Tar Heel, North Carolina, who fought for safe, fair working conditions – and won. It goes beyond hype about unions (from both sides) to show how people standing together can break the cycle of poverty and injustice.

Strike

To mark the 100th anniversary of free trade unions in Luxembourg (1916-2016), the OGBL commissioned director Andy Bausch to make a documentary film tracing the remarkable history of the free trade union movement in Luxembourg over the past 100 years.

Ditching the Fear: The Logistics Workers’ Movement in Italy / Die Angst wegschmeißen: Die Bewegung der Logistikarbeiter_innen in Italien

Since 2008, northern Italy has been the scene of extraordinary events. Companies, politicians and the media are using the crisis to further erode workers’ already fragile rights.

Superstore

The NBC series Superstore starts its fifth season this week, and you should be watching it. This good-hearted workplace comedy about a big-box store in St.

Two Days, One Night

After treatment and returning to work, Sandra, a mother of two children, finds out that the employees' meeting decided to fire her to to avoid losing the yearly bonus of one thousand euros. Only two colleagues did not vote "yes." Juliette, Sandra's friend, convinced the supervisor to repeat the vote due to the pressure placed on the workers.

Lotta senza classe (A Classless Struggle)

Three different ways of being metalworkers. Three different ways of dealing with the crisis, three different life prospects.

Occupy, Resist, Produce – RiMaflow / Occupare, Resistere, Produrre – RiMaflow

The film follows the workers of RiMaflow, a former Maflow car-parts plant in Trezzano sul Naviglio near Milan. After the factory was closed following a fraudulent bankruptcy, former workers occupied the plant and began to reinvent it as a self-managed project.

Senzachiederepermesso

The story of the worker Pietro Perotti, employed at Fiat Mirafiori from 1969 to 1985, who took part in the workers' struggles by dealing with communication within the factory, making stickers, wall newspapers, writings and drawings in the bathrooms, papier-mâché and foam rubber puppets, turning the marches into "street theater". With his camera Perotti…

Miners shot down

In August 2012, mineworkers in one of South Africa’s biggest platinum mines began a wildcat strike for better wages. Six days into the strike, the police used live ammunition to brutally suppress the strike, killing 34 and injuring many more.

Cart / Kateu

Sun Hi, a mother of two children, works as a cashier in a large supermarket, believing that hard work will secure a good future for her children. However, the company suddenly announces the dismissal of her and other temporary workers.

ReMine, the latest workers' movement

“There’s a fire burning in Asturias that’s warming all of Spain, because the entire mining region has risen up there.” More than a fire, as Sánchez Ferlosio said, it was a blazing inferno that erupted in the 2012 Asturian miners’ strike: the last workers’ movement, a display of epic courage and kamikaze integrity. The road blockades, the miners’…

Still the Enemy Within

Still the Enemy Within is a unique insight into one of history's most dramatic events: the 1984-85 British Miners' Strike. No experts.

The Pride

Based on a true story, it depicts a group of lesbian and gay activists who seek contact with Welsh miners during the Miners' Strike of 1984-1985 in Britain. They are ready to help, though this area is a harsh backwater where they'd be better off not showing up.

Labor's Turning Point: 1934 Minneapolis Truckers Strike

Full-length documentary on the 1934 Truckers Strikes that transformed Minneapolis into a union town and prompted passage of the labor law that made collective bargaining government policy.

Mother Jones and Her Children

Pencils Down: The 100 Days Of The Writers Guild Strike

The story of the Writers Guild of America strike of 2007-08 that pitted Hollywood's writers against the major studios.

The Hand That Feeds

Undocumented sandwich workers in NYC struggle against abusive conditions.

Cesar Chavez

In the mid-1960s in California, two groups of Latino organizers formed a union for farm laborers (braceros) from the countless Mexican migrants. One of the groups was led by the legendary César Chávez.

Memory for Repeat Offenders" Workers' Struggle and Militancy in the 1970s

The film offers an original perspective on the 1970s, from its thematic choices to its formal production, which renews previous audiovisual productions on the subject. It recovers a wealth of previously unseen archival footage, featuring the voices of disappeared workers, protagonists of emblematic struggles in the 1970s.

Zhanaozen Diary

The movie depicts the events that followed the bloody suppression of the strike. In 2011, I was an observer for the Kazakhstan Bureau for Human Rights and lived with the oil workers in the central square of Zhanaozen, and later attended the trials," says Galym Ageleuov.

Walesa: Man of Hope

The biopic film addresses the development of the trade union movement in Poland during the years 1970-1989, focusing on the participation of electrician Lech Wałęsa in demonstrations and strikes, leading to the creation of the trade union Solidarity and his speech in the U.S. Congress.