Busboys and Poets Books Presents BREAD & ROSES

Busboys and Poets Books Presents BREAD & ROSES

Date and Time

Feb 8, 2022 7:00 pm

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Description:

Short film program and Q&A with 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 

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

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 

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." If you are organizing your workplace, please reach out at: bustedthefilm@gmail.com.

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