Green Mountain Social Justice Coalition presents a film and discussion of MADE IN DAGENHAM

When: Thursday June 2nd, 5:30-7:30 pm
Where: Kellogg Hubbard Library, 135 Main St., Montpelier

Made in Dagenham is a sentimental, funny, yet rousing account of a 1968 strike by women at Ford's plant in East London. Their one-day industrial action turns into something much bigger, leading ultimately to Britain's 1970 Equal Pay Act. No one thought the revolution would come to Dagenham, until one day, it did. Rita, who primarily sees herself as a wife and mother, joins a meeting with her shop steward, a sympathetic union representative, and Ford's Head of Industrial Relations. What she expects to be simply a day out of work, complete with a free lunch, turns into much more when she and her colleagues become outraged by the lack of respect shown in the meeting to the women employees. With humor, common sense and courage Rita and the other women take on their bosses, and the government, as their intelligence and unpredictability proves to be a match for any of their male opponents. Daring to stand up and push boundaries, the women changed a system that no one wanted to admit was broken.

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