WOMEN OF STEEL - Wollongong, New South Wales, 1980: Denied jobs at the steelworks, the city's main employer, working class/migrant women refused discrimination. Their 14-year campaign for the right to work pitted them against BHP, the richest and most powerful company in Australia. In Women of Steel, they tell their personal stories – from the unemployment line to the factory gate to the High Court. It's an exciting and often humorous story of the ups and downs of a group of seemingly ordinary women, determined to overcome a giant. This is an extraordinary but little known episode in women’s history! (56 min, Australia, 2020, Director: Robynne Murphy)
https://www.womenofsteelfilm.com/
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PRECARITY U - This short documentary introduces one of the world’s top Universities’ dirty little secret. Employees at the University of Toronto speak out about work and shine a light on things that need to change. Produced to support the United Steelworkers Local 1998 Casual Unit bargaining campaign. (13 min, Canada, 2020, Director: Laura Dasilva)
HOW TO FORM A UNION - Willy Street Grocery Co-op workers began organizing in 2019 after management implemented a new attendance policy that was harsher than that of Whole Foods (a corporate competitor in the natural-foods market). In addition, despite a 2017 promise that the Co-op would move towards paying a “livable wage” within two to three years, in 2019 the starting wage rate was cut from $12.40 to $12.10 per hour. (22 min, 2021, Director: Gretta Wing Miller)