Frank Sheeran er en hustler og lejemorder, som arbejdede sammen med nogle af de mest berygtede personer i det 20. århundrede. Over flere årtier fortælles historien om et af de største uløste mysterier i amerikansk historie, nemlig forsvindingen af den legendariske fagforeningschef Jimmy Hoffa. Filmen viser den storslåede rejse gennem den organiserede kriminalitets indre systemer, stridigheder og politiske forbindelser.
Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the power represented by a coal company and Matewan's vested interests so that justice and workers' rights need not take a back seat to squalid working conditions, exploitation and the bottom line.
Lucy Hill (Renée Zellweger) er hastigt på vej mod forretningsverdenens top, og da en stor opgave byder sig, øjner Lucy endnu et skridt på karrierestigen. Men massefyringer i et lille, vinterfrossent landsbyhul i Minnesota er ingen nem opgave. Og snart opdager Lucy helt nye sider af sig selv!
Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed supervisor can fire workers on a whim, and the service-workers' union has assigned organizer Sam Shapiro to bring its "justice for janitors" campaign to the building. Sam finds Maya a willing listener, she's also attracted to him. Rosa resists, she has an ailing husband to consider. The workers try for public support; management intimidates workers to divide and conquer. Rosa and Maya as well as workers and management may be set to collide.
Kan en mand være skyldig indtil det modsatte er bevist? Forestil dig at vågne op til morgenavisen, og dit liv var beskrevet på forsiden... og at alt hvad der stod, var detaljeret, men ikke sandt! Det er præcis sådan en konflikt, der opstår i dette moderne drama om pressens uhyggeligt store magt! Michael Gallagher læser i avisen, at han er genstand for en politiundersøgelse. Pludselig kommer alt, hvad han nogensinde har arbejdet for, i fare. Han opsøger journalisten, der har skrevet artiklen, Megan Carter (Sally Field), en utrættelig journalist. Sammen opdager de, at historien med fuldt overlæg blev lækket til Carter af lederen af politiundersøgelsen. Det er hele Gallaghers karriere og liv, der står på spil, da han sammen med Carter kæmper for at afsløre sandheden.
At New Mexico's Empire Zinc mine, Mexican-American workers protest the unsafe work conditions and unequal wages compared to their Anglo counterparts. Ramon Quintero helps organize the strike, but he is shown to be a hypocrite by treating his pregnant wife, Esperanza, with a similar unfairness. When an injunction stops the men from protesting, however, the gender roles are reversed, and women find themselves on the picket lines while the men stay at home.
En fabrik i Sydfrankrig skal lukke, til trods for at fabrikkens medarbejdere havde indgået en aftale om nedsat løn mod en forsikring om at kunne beholde deres jobs. Og værre bliver det, da det viser sig at baggrunden for lukningen ikke skyldes underskud og røde tal på bundlinjen men en vækstprocent, der faktisk er positiv, men blot lidt under, hvad firmaets aktionærer finder værd at beskæftige sig med. Der er oprørsstemning. Fabriksarbejderne forener sig og med Laurent i spidsen, tager de kampen op. Men med store konsekvenser for arbejderne – også på privatfronten.
Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family objects when she goes to work as a maid for the wealthy Scott family which controls the mill. Mary catches the attention of handsome scion Paul Scott, but their romance is complicated by Paul's engagement to someone else and a bitter strike among the mill workers.
’Walesa – håbets mand’ skildrer Lech Walesas liv i årene fra det første arbejderoprør i 1970 og frem til Solidarnosc-sejren ved det første frie valg i Polen i 1989. Filmen følge Lech Walesa, der starter som elektriker på Leninværftet, frem til tiden som Polens karismatisk oppositionsleder. Og han bliver imponerende gestaltet af Robert Wieckiewicz, som spiller Walesa med fuld skrue på gavtyvesmilet og masser af kløgtige, sjove og skæve esser i ærmet – hele vejen fra skibsværftet i Gdansk til Nobelprisen – som regel med familien og hustruen Danuta med på første parket. Alt i alt en storslået, lærerig og stærkt underholdende rejse tilbage til tiden før Murens fald.
A gunman whose best friend has been murdered enacts a plan to blackmail the corrupt labor union leader responsible but finds he isn't the only one after his money.
A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town's population of lost souls.
Orange picker Leroy Jones inadvertently becomes a union leader and is forced out of town, leaving behind his sex-obsessed father, Rufus, and timid spouse, Annie Mae. He heads for Los Angeles, where he falls for union organizer Vanetta. Annie Mae seeks solace from local preacher Lenox Thomas, who eventually impregnates her. When Leroy catches wind, he heads home for a showdown with Lenox.
A biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Texas home in the 1930s to find work, discovering the suffering and strength of America's working class.
The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign to receive fair wages.
Robert moves from the Polish countryside to work on a fish processing factory on the coast of Norway. There he falls in love with Ivar who is openly gay and a member of the workers union. Robert is hiding his sexual orientation from the other Polish immigrant workers. When Ivar helps the Polish to start a strike for better working conditions at the factory, Robert has to choose between money or love.
In response to a sudden dismissal of staff, workers at a big retail store begin a protest against their employer's oppressive labor policies.
This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973. Eastovers refusal to sign a contract (when the miners joined with the United Mine Workers of America) led to the strike, which lasted more than a year and included violent battles between gun-toting company thugs/scabs and the picketing miners and their supportive women-folk. Director Barbara Kopple puts the strike into perspective by giving us some background on the historical plight of the miners and some history of the UMWA. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with New York Women in Film & Television in 2004.
A Sicilian worker, a member of the internal commission in a factory in Bergamasco, believes he has won it over the owner because he has obtained important improvements, but the astute employer sells the company to a multinational company.
A power-mad union boss resorts to murder to eliminate witnesses scheduled to testify against him. The eclectic cast includes Mickey Rooney, Mamie Van Doren, Mel Torme, Jay North, Vampira, Charles Chaplin Jr., Jackie Coogan and Norman Grabowski.
Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.