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Focus America

American Dream

Regjisor/e

Barbara Kopple

Producentët

Arthur Cohn

Barbara Kopple

Kinematografët

Kevin Keating

Mark Petersson

Peter Gilbert

Editimi

Cathy Caplan

Lawrence Silk

Thomas Haneke

Muzika

Al Nahmias

Donald Klocek

Webfaqja Zyrtare e Filmit

Kontakti

Cabin Creek Films
270 Lafayette St., Suite 710
New York, NY 10012
(212) 343 2585
[email protected]

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1990

100 min

Color

USA, 1990, Colour, 100 min

Chronicles the six-month strike at Hormel in Austin, Minnesota, in 1985-86. The local union, P-9 of the Food and Commercial Workers, overwhelmingly rejects a contract offer with a $2/hour wage cut. They strike and hire a New York consultant to manage a national media campaign against Hormel. Despite support from P-9’s rank and file, FCWU’s international disagrees with the strategy. In addition to union-company tension, there’s union-union in-fighting. Hormel holds firm; scabs, replacement workers, brothers on opposite sides, a union coup d’état, and a new contract materialize. The film asks, was it worth it, or was the strike a long-term disaster for organized labour?

Regjisor/e

Barbara Kopple (born July 30, 1946) is an American film director known primarily for her documentary work. She grew up in Scarsdale, New York, the daughter of a textile executive, and studied psychology at Northeastern University, after which she worked with the Maysles Brothers.

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