Union

Name: Union
Genre: Documentary
Released: October 18, 2024
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 80
Cast: Chris Smalls

2024

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Level Ground Productions | Release Date: October 18, 2024 | Not Rated

Starring: Chris Smalls

Summary: The Amazon Labor Union (ALU) — a group of current and former Amazon workers in New York City’s Staten Island — takes on one of the world’s largest and most powerful companies in the fight to unionize.

Director: Brett Story and Stephen Maing and Stephen T. Maing

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 100 min

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Alison Willmore

Oct 21, 2024

Union is a rare thing — a documentary that is undeniably political in its focus while being artful and observational in its approach. Read full review

Robert Abele

Oct 25, 2024

Sober and heartfelt, Union lets us see what Amazon and the world would soon discover about the power workers have when they invest in their dignity first. Read full review

The Film Stage Edward Frumkin

Jan 27, 2024

The filmmakers do not dive into the protagonists’ lives or elucidate if any form of progress was made after the wins. Maing and Story show that the outcome is the beginning of a generational fight for companies to properly value the labor that keeps them running. Read full review

Daniel Fienberg

Jan 27, 2024

It’s a documentary about the fight, one that takes the necessity of the fight as a given. That’s amply inspiring Read full review

RogerEbert.com Isaac Feldberg

Oct 7, 2024

The film captures both the pain and the power of people at the base of a global infrastructure. By not departing from the frontlines of the fight against Amazon’s labor exploitation, Story and Maing bring the true face of their struggle into focus. Read full review

Kenji Fujishima

Oct 2, 2024

The level of detail with which the filmmakers depict the unionization process is eye-opening. Read full review

Wendy Ide

Jan 27, 2024

Union is a solid work about an important subject. Yet, while the observational approach gives the picture an urgency and immediacy, it’s a film that might have benefitted from the addition of more contextual background information about Amazon’s labour practices. Read full review

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