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This May Day, UNI, together with others from the international labour movement hosted a Night of Labour Film Shorts to showcase union films from different sectors and parts of the world that tackle issues important to working people.



"More and more, unions around the world are using film and video to explain issues, motivate membership, persuade policy makers and educate the public," said Anna Biondi, Director of the International Trade Union Confederation Geneva Office and Secretary of the International Labour Organisation Workers' Group, who opened the event in Geneva, Switzerland, where about 100 people participated.



The programme included film shorts from Australia, Iran, Mexico, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan and the UK and feature the documentary Morristown: In the Air and Sun by Anne Lewis. Filmed in the mountains of east Tennessee, interior Mexico and Ciudad Juarez, Morristown presents a working class response to globalisation, migration, factory flight and the organised demand for economic and social justice.



The struggle for equal pay (Equal Pay Story: Scenes from a Turbulent History), the fight for fundamental human rights (Freedom Will Come - The Story of Mansour Osanloo, An Injury to One: The Mexican Miners' Struggle for Union Independence) and trade union efforts to secure improved working conditions (1st November 2007: les chantiers de Zurich en grève, Our Story Our Dream) were some of the themes of the film shorts.



Please visit UNI's Media webpage for union movies (soon to come all of the Night of Labour film shorts and a YouTube dedicated channel, so stay tuned!)

http://www.uniglobalunion.org/media