by Mike Hall, May 8, 2011
The five finalists have been selected for LabourStart’s second annual Labor Video of the Year competition and you have until midnight GMT (8 p.m. EDT) May 31 to select your favorite.
The five videos were produced by:
•The United Steelworkers (USW), highlighting Honeywell’s use of inexperienced, temporary workers at a uranium facility following a lockout;
•The Electrical Workers (IBEW), portraying corporate-style “workplace democracy”;
•The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC), showing how a union contract means job safety;
•The Transport Workers (TWU), reviewing the fight for workers’ rights in Wisconsin; and
•Melissa Koch, who tracks her father’s outsourced airline mechanic job to China.
Click here to view the entries and vote.
The producer of the overall winning video will receive a subscription to IMDb Pro, worth $100. Winners in the various categories also will be recognized. The overall winning video and runner up will be featured Nov. 18–20 in a special screening at the LabourStart global solidarity conference in Istanbul.
Last year’s winner was “What Have Unions Ever Done for Us?” a Monty Python-like look at a scowling CEO and his minions as they prepare to bring a union to its knees (click here). The video was produced by Your Rights At Work, the Australian counterpart of the AFL-CIO community affiliate, Working America.
