On Strike: The Winnipeg General Strike

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Friday Night Docs by Cinema Politica Fredericton
Friday January 11, 2008
Screening begins 19h00
Venue: Conserver House - 180 St. John St.

Canada/1991/19 min

In an era when unions wield as much power as management, it is difficult to imagine a time when they did not even exist. To rely on an employer's goodwill for decent working conditions and a fair rate of pay without any avenue of recourse is a proposition as alien to the modern worker as the idea of commuting to work on a space shuttle. Yet for post World War I Canadians, a living wage, an eight hour work day, and the freedom to organize into bargaining groups were rights that had to be fought for. On Strike examines this struggle, chronicling
the conditions and events leading to the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919.

Directed by Joe MacDonald and Clare Johnstone Gilsig.

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