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Trickster activists the Yes Men collaborate with Clean Clothes Campaign and Berlin fashion designers to orchestrate an elaborate hoax announcement in an effort to improve conditions for garment workers and sustainability in the Adidas supply chain. Then they stage a shocking and hilarious fashion show at the opening of Berlin Fashion Week that makes the world pay attention to labor and environmental abuses that the mega-brand is trying to hide. This video documents a brilliant “performance-intervention”. A fake fashion show during fashionweek in NYC that fools all the fashionistas. It’s a cool critique of the labour conditions thatunderlie the Adidas brand in Cambodia. The Clean Clothes Campaign approached The YesMen, who put together this event with the help of a design team, Threads and Tits. The result ofthis ruse is that Adidas has to publicly admit they are not making ethical changes to it’s Brand.It’s a must-see to believe it. You won’t forget it.

Adidas Owns the Reality

Workers’ power and success at the bargaining table comes about through solidarity andorganization. This documentary takes us through a brief history of the Canadian Union of PublicEmployees (CUPE) public sector negotiations in New Brunswick with an emphasis oncoordinated bargaining and current campaigns since the pandemic. It has many lessons for anyone in a union or wanting to organize – as we see the strategies and how they broughtabout success and improved working conditions for public sector workers in CUPE NB. This bilingual (English and French) documentary showcases the unity and resilience of 22,000 public sector workers in New Brunswick, Canada, as they strike against wage suppression. It explores strategic mobilization and collective bargaining efforts by the Canadian Union of Public Employees, culminating in a province-wide movement that successfully challenges austerity and sparks labour action across Canada. Produced by the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

Bargaining Forward

A comedy screenwriter for a TV show has to work with a new partner, Humormatic, a machine that writes jokes. The screenwriter will try to make her colleagues, her bosses, the TV host and the audience value her work, but Humormatic won't make things easy. Humormatic is a short comedy about working as a comedy writer and the value of that labour.At it’s heart, it asks us, why do we value machines more than people? A comedy screenwriter ata TV Station has to work with a machine that writes jokes. The screenwriter tries to make hercolleagues, her bosses, the hosts, and audiences value her work – but alas, is forced to adapt.

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A migrant worker's pursuit of ‘The Canadian Dream’ takes a ​nightmarish turn as he uncovers an unsightly truth in the Ontarian ​agricultural industry. His quest for a better life in Canada unfolds through his own words and from his daughter’s perspective in this poignant family portrait. The film exposes the harsh exploitation and dismal working conditions Ontario’s migrant farm workers endure, while at the same time celebrating the resilience of the human spirit as it is manifested in one man’s battle for justice.

The Canadian Dream

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