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....

Documentary about the nurses' strike in Finland on autumn 2007.

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...

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

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

Filmmaker Gary Kaunonen of KCC-TV in International Falls just released a new documentary about a pivotal time in Northern Minnesota’s labor...

Portrait of a community in the heart of South Wales almost one year into the miners' strike of the 1980s.

A film documenting work shortages during the Depression of the 1930s and the attempts to deal with the unemployed, in particular young men. The film...

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

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

The video documentary "A Struggle to Remember: Fighting for Our Families" puts faces and narratives to the story of the struggle for family leave in...

Social drama realistically traces the trials and travails in the life of sincere men from impoverished backgrounds, who find themselves unable to get...

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

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

Taylor Chain I tells the gritty realities of a seven-week strike at a small Indiana chain factory during 1973-74. Volatile union meetings and...

Documentary about a man remembering his struggles while floating on a boat down a river.

Discontent, radicalism, and violence permeated the U.S. Northwest in the early decades of the twentieth century. Tens of thousands of workers...

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

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