Movies: Trade union

Set in an open prison, where a former trade union activist subjects his more passive cell mate to an incessant barrage of union mumbo-jumbo....

Uncovers the crime, corruption, and sinister elements at the heart of Australia’s largest construction union, the CFMEU, exposing how bikies, underworld figures, and organised crime syndicates infiltrated the building industry....

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

An exploration of the past and future of the steel industry in America....

Short documentary on the shunters in the Darling Island, Sydney, Australia railyard. Filmed in 1977....

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 discusses the establishment of relief camps and projects, where men were paid twenty cents per day; t...

An experimental documentary exploring the turn-of-century lynching of union organizer Frank Little in Butte, Montana....

Documentary following dockers of Liverpool sacked in a labour dispute and their supporters’ group, Women of the Waterfront, as they receive support from around the world and seek solidarity at the TUC conference....

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

A RECORD OF THE STRIKE AT GRUNWICK IN 1977. The story of the continuing struggle at Grunwick’s by mainly Indian workers, from July 11th, 1977 until the struggle was lost. It shows the Special Patrol Group attack on the November 7th day of action, ho...

Trade union leader Manuel Taborda, a pioneer of workers' organisations in the oil industry, recounts his experiences and those of his colleagues from 1920 to 1936, with an emphasis on the struggles against foreign companies and the government....

With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade is a 1979 documentary film directed by Lorraine Gray about the General Motors sit-down strike in 1936–1937 that focuses uniquely on the role of women using archival footage and interview...

A documentary of Janesville trying to recover from the closing of the GM automobile plant, in the midst of very divisive and historic political infighting between Republican's and Democrats in the state of Wisconsin....

NALGO campaign, highlighting Government cuts to public services....

Short documentary made under lockdown that looks at the crisis for renters during the pandemic....

"Don't Let The Bastards Grind You Down" is a documentary film about British social policy. The focus is on the political struggle against neoliberal austerity policies, which have their origins in the hated Thatcher government. The film features the...