Movies and TvShows featuring "union-struggle" theme.

In 19th century Pittsburgh, an Irish immigrant's unrequited love for a wealthy family's daughter sets off a series of events that will change their lives forever.

In the coal mining town of Matewan, West Virginia, in the 1920s, tensions rise when a labor organizer arrives to support the striking miners against the oppressive coal company. As the conflict escalates, the town becomes a battleground for racial tensions, class struggle, and the fight for workers' rights.

Which Way Is Up? is a comedy film set in 1970s California, following the story of a labor leader and his experiences with labor struggles, adultery, and domestic abuse. The film also explores themes of racial discrimination and personal growth.

Ahmed, an Algerian laborer and young father, leaves his country and arrives in France, hoping to find a job through Salah, a friend who has been living in the Paris suburbs for several years. He is disappointed when he arrives in Nanterre, where Salah lives in a shantytown. Without any support, Ahmed has to make the daily rounds of the employment offices, like so many other immigrants who, like him, have been lulled into complacency.

Documentary overview of the life and causes of "Mother" Jones.

The Confederation of Haitian Workers (CTH) invited an Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) delegation to Haiti to learn about their fight against "le plan neoliberal" and recruit help in the form of material aid and solidarity. The delegation was in Haiti from April 24 to May 25, 2008, two weeks after the country erupted in mass protest at burgeoning food prices. This video shares the stories and experiences.

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 lives. Then, the film moves through the unemployed' struggles of the '30s, post WWII equity campaigns, and into more recent public sector strikes over union rights.

A documentary telling the story of the 1983 Solidarity strike in “British Columbia,” a key point in the introduction of neoliberal economic policy in the province.