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GET BY follows two recycling workers, Stanley McPherson and Milton Webb, as they bring their struggle for a living wage to the legislature, media, and the streets of Ithaca, New York. An exploration of precarity, worker-community solidarity and urban democracy, the film raises key questions about the public value of increasingly privatized work, and the challenges of organizing across divides of race and class.
Get By (28 min -2015) A look at two recycling workers, Stanley and Milton, as they bring their struggle for a living wage to the legislature, media, and the streets of Ithaca, New York. An exploration of worker-community solidarity and urban democracy, the film raises key questions about the value of increasingly privatized work, and the challenges of organizing across divides of race and class.
** OPENING NIGHT - Workers Unite Film Festival 2015 ** (Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/opening-night-get-by-the-living-wage-film-a-days-work-tickets-16556918188) ** OFFICIAL SELECTION - Northside Film Festival 2015 ** ** OFFICIAL SELECTION - Reel Work Film Festival 2015 ** _____ 90 minutes before he was killed on his first day of work as a temporary employee, 21-year-old Day Davis texted a picture of himself to his girlfriend, excited for their future. Now Day’s sister, 17-year-old Antonia, searches for answers. An investigation reveals the issues that led to Day’s death and how the $100 billion temporary staffing industry is putting millions of American workers at risk. _____ tempfilm.com
A Day’s Work (60 min-2015) 90 minutes Before he was killed on his first day of work as a temporary employee, 21-year-old Day Davis texted a picture of himself to his girlfriend, excited for their future. Now Day's sister, 17-year-old Antonia, searches for answers. An investigation reveals the issues that led to Day's death and how the $100 billion temporary staffing industry is putting millions of American workers at risk.
The screenings are followed by a discussion with Charlene Obernauer (Executive Director, NYCOSH), Dave DeSario (Executive Producer of the film & Alliance for the American Temporary Workforce Executive Director), Lou Kimmel (New Labor) & film's main subject and narrator Nia Washington.
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