Workers Unite Film Festival 2022

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24 films in package
Rally for Respect: New School Part-Time Faculty
Students and part-time faculty at The New School in NYC speak out and rally for respect.
Feed/back
Interviews with former food service workers in Washington, DC. intercut with a narrative about disposability.
Spread Thin
The legal fight against pregnancy discrimination has left one woman spread thin.
Not Machine Enough
A handyman confronts America’s culture of disposability – not just of plastic toys and appliances, but of low-wage immigrant workers like himself.
Inside Amazon Labor Union: How Workers Took On Amazon and WON
Exclusive footage from inside the early days of the Amazon union drive reveals how workers beat the odds and successfully won the first Amazon union in U.S. history.
The Wisconsin TA Strike
The first Teaching Assistants strike in the U.S., in Wisconsin 1970.
The Glove
When a 14-year-old immigrant gets a job as a house cleaner, she is faced with the perplexing habits of her American employer.
Chinese Laundry
Mong just moved to New York from China to take over the family laundry shop. Both her professional and social lives are affected when she finds out about an affair happening in the building where she works.
A Reality Show
Michael Paul Britto is a Community Coordinator at Forsyth Satellite Academy High School, as well as an Arts Educator & Artist.
UPS Drivers Are Dying Of Extreme Heat
UPS drivers are collapsing in the street, suffering heat stroke and dying because the company refuses to put air conditioning in their trucks.
Total Disaster
Armed with realistic bird puppets, trickster environmental activists pretend to be oil company Total — staging a satirical press conference to introduce "RéHabitat".
Semilla
The music video, “Seed”, from Bolivian singer Marcos Tabera.
Sacco and Vanzetti (from 'A More Radiant Sphere')
A poem by Joe Wallace, as performed by folk group Fiver.
A More Radiant Sphere
The long-lost story of Communist poet, activist, and Canadian political prisoner Joe Wallace.
The MV Portland
Australian seafarers are replaced by foreign crew at $2.20 per hour due to pure corporate greed.
The Vanished
A human rights activist lives in fear after he discovers fellow Uyghurs have been abducted from neighboring countries and returned to China.
Dark Cell Harlem Farm
'Dark Cell Harlem Farm' explores the death by suffocation of eight Black men at a prison plantation in 1913.
Starbucks Is Using Absurd Excuses to Fire Union Leaders
Starbucks is firing union leaders for increasingly preposterous reasons.
See Us Come Together
Ophthalmic lens workers in The Phiippines organize to change the culture of labor in their factory.
Gabby Antonio Smashes the Imperialist, White Supremacist, Capitalist Patriarchy! (Eps 1-4)
A comedy web series.
Call Taxi
Jason gets in a Korean taxi to catch a 6:30 AM flight from JFK. To his surprise, his father is the driver.
Alone/Together
Artists, travelers, teachers, parents, and essential workers in 11 different countries struggle and persevere through the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Myth of the "Self-Made" Billionaire
The obsession with so-called “self-made” billionaires and how misleading that term can be.
Can Capitalism Solve World Hunger?
The real cause of world hunger and whether capitalism has the tools to solve this massive problem.
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When factories were forced to close operations due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, an ophthalmic lens workers union ensured mechanisms to protect their workers, ultimately with the goal to change the culture of labor in their factory. While the pandemic turned the spotlight on essential and frontline workers, what was essential to the workers of Optodev was their union.

  • Year
    2022
  • Runtime
    10 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    Philippines
  • Director
    Alyssa Suico
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