Union Town
About the event
Union Town completes Barbara Kopple’s trilogy on labour rights following her Oscar®-winning Harlan County USA and American Dream, two landmark cinéma vérité documentaries. The film chronicles essential workers in New York City’s last-mile delivery industry amid an explosive resurgence of organized labour in the nation’s largest metropolis. Interweaving struggles within UPS, Amazon, and the mostly immigrant app-based bike delivery workforce, Union Town uncovers the human face of modern labour and organizing. Filmed over the course of three years, the film asks what solidarity means in a world divided between those who have power, and those who must fight for it. In English and Spanish, with English subtitles. TICKETS (+HST) General: $15 Members: $10, $8, FREE