Union time : fighting for workers' rights / the Unheard Voices project presents ; a film by Matthew Barr ; executive producers, Curtis Austin & Matthew Barr ; producers, Cornelia Wright Barr, Margaret Norfleet Neff ; written by Matthew Barr & Cornelia Wright Barr.
"It's union time, people! That was the rallying cry of workers at the Smithfield Foods pork processing plant in Tar Heel, North Carolina. Since the plant opened in 1993, meatpacking workers endured dangerous working conditions, intimidation, and low pay. Hand in hand with the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, through two botched elections and a 16-year struggle, meatpacking workers achieved the greatest union victory of the 21st century. Now the 5,000 workers at the Tar Heel plant have fair working conditions, better wages, and above all, respect. Union time interweaves the themes of labor rights and civil rights to show how unions still are--despite efforts to dismantle them--a potent force for economic justice. Above all, it gives voice to the meatpacking workers who refused to give up through a 16-year-long struggle"-- Container insert
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