Behind the Lens: UNION
Clip: Season 38 Episode 1 | 1m 17sVideo has Closed Captions
Behind the Lens interview with UNION directors Stephen Maing and Brett Story.
Behind the Lens interview with UNION directors Stephen Maing and Brett Story.
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Major funding for POV is provided by PBS, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Wyncote Foundation, Reva & David Logan Foundation, the Open Society Foundations and the...
Behind the Lens: UNION
Clip: Season 38 Episode 1 | 1m 17sVideo has Closed Captions
Behind the Lens interview with UNION directors Stephen Maing and Brett Story.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipWe wanted to share what contemporary organizing looks like for real people, to build a community of care from scratch in a workplace that not only was considered unorganizable, but is also actively discouraged from organizing by management.
In this effort, we saw a new generation of labor organizers that are not intimidated by trillion dollar companies like Amazon.
Their courage, their persistence, their commitment— it felt definitive of this moment, and we really understood that this was an opportunity to document a defining struggle of our time.
Alienation and capitalism works in this way where others will always seek to define the value of our labor, but also our value as individuals.
Watching these workers at Staten Island was a visceral reminder of how we all have the power to define for ourselves our dignity and worth, and that collective organizing does matter.
The future of democracy and the future of the workplace are intertwined.
It's really important for people to see a group of ordinary people take on an enormous fight and actually win it.
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Preview: S38 Ep1 | 2m 5s | Trailer of UNION by directors Stephen Maing and Brett Story. (2m 5s)
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