Troy Area Labor Council on UNION Film Aug 27

Labor Day Weekend kicks off on Wednesday August 27 with a screening of UNION, co-hosted and with a post-screening discussion about labor unionizing with the Troy Area Labor Council. The film is at 7 PM at Picture Lock One, 50 4th St., Troy. Union is a 2024 American documentary film, directed by Brett Story and Stephen Maing. It follows the Amazon Labor Union as they seek to unionize Amazon’s JKF8 Warehouse in Staten Island. As Chris Smalls and his fellow organizers formed the Amazon Labor Union and began a union drive at the warehouse, Story saw the opportunity to make a film about “a new generation of labor organizers, a generation that’s grown up entirely in the post-Reagan era of union decline and globalized corporate capital, and who would be learning, in real time, how to organize collectively and outside of mainstream union support”. Sean Collins, President of TALC, talks with Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Magazine.