Labor Stories

This powerful and informative collection of politically conscious documentaries explores three of the 1970s' most crucial labor issues: "HSA Strike '75," about doctors who band together to get their hospital patients better health care; "U.E. Wells," which focuses on the United Electrical Workers' struggle to organize a foundry; and "What's Happening at Local 70," which captures compensation workers as they strike to improve their working conditions. The product of the creatively fertile Kartemquin film collective of Chicago (incubator of talents like the makers of HOOP DREAMS), these gritty and illuminating shorts not only tell powerful stories, but actually had a hand in their outcomes.