Female Film Critics 24/375
Ostensibly about the power of unions and workers uniting for better wages and improved job conditions in the microcosm of New York City, Union Town truly creates empathy and even admiration for the people who keep the Big Apple and America moving, one delivery at a time.
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Director Yael Bridge’s Who Moves America demonstrates and celebrates the solidarity and power of 340,000 UPS Teamsters, both full-time and part -time workers who unite to approve a new five-year contract. Documenting teamster representatives in Local 542 in San Marcos, California; Local 804 in Brooklyn, New York; and Local 82 in Louisville, Kentucky, in affiliation with 340,000 members across the U.S., this instructive, exemplary model of strategizing and unifying in the face of corporate resistance proves the power of proactive organization and, as representatives assert, “fighting for what is right.”
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