FILM/BOOK/TALK: Confessions of A Union Buster

Tuesday, February 8⋅7:00 – 9:00pm

Short film program and Q&A with legendary union organizer Bob Muehlenkamp, author of the forward for Confessions of a Union Buster: New Activist Edition (2022).

Union Busting: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (2021; 23m)
John Oliver discusses the mechanics of union busting, why the companies who do it face so few consequences, and what it really means when your manager wants to talk to you about "your attendance."

Alice's Egg Plant (1925, 8m)
Walt Disney directed this short in which chickens at an egg factory are organized to strike for shorter hours and smaller eggs by Little Red Henski from Moscow, Russia, and the bosses have to come up with a clever way to extract more eggs from the striking chickens.

Busted: how unions are stopped before they start - a call to action (7:20)
Producer Jimmy Day will join us to discuss the feature film now being made about how companies stop unions before they start with manipulative tactics. "The best way to stop this is to expose how this really works by sharing our stories. This short video is just one story and a call to action for others to share theirs."

Co-sponsored by the International Labor Film Network, the Old Labor Hall (Barre. VT) and the London Labour Film Festival. To register, go to https://www.dclabor.org/ & click on calendar.