A SELECTION OF VIDEOS PRODUCED BY LABOR EDUCATION SERVICE
From Field to Factory: Sugar Beets, Trade and the Future of the Red River Valley/
LES documents the harvesting and processing of sugar beets in the Red River Valley
along the Minnesota/North Dakota border, highlighting the central importance of this
industry to the region and the potentially devastating impact of the proposed Central
American Trade Agreement to this industry and the area's economy.
The FTAA and the Miami Model: Free Trade, Foul Repression
See the police state reaction to November protests in Miami against the Free Trades Area
of the Americas talks and hear about the threats to our economy and democracy posed by
this potential agreement.
Labor's Turning Point
This exciting 43-minute documentary follows the 1934 Minneapolis Truckers Strike.
The film relates how this bloody, massive campaign transformed the city from a bastion
of the anti-labor Citizens Alliance to a union town. This pivotal struggle was also a
catalyst for passage of the National Labor Relations Act, the foundation for today's labor
law and collective bargaining in the United States.
Marty Levitt: A Dirty Business (Four segments on two DVDs)
A detailed examination of the union busting industry by a former practitioner.
Minneapolis Truckers Make History
This 18-minute program on the 1934 strike summarizes the highlights of Labor’s Turning
Point, together with footage of contemporary campaigns and footage of recent
installations memorializing the conflict. The program is especially suitable for use in
classrooms and is linked to an on-line curriculum.
Twin Cities Assembly Plant: A Job and a Family
History of the Ford/UAW plant in St. Paul from its founding in 1924 to the present, as
told by workers and managers employed there.
Who Built Our Capitol?
This documentary reveals the untold story of the lives and work of the men and women
who built the Minnesota State Capitol Building. The video and website are the
culmination of five years of original research and video production in Minnesota,
Georgia and other states. The project team uncovered names and stories of over 620 of
the original builders and traced a number of their descendants. Interviews with these
living family members, as well as historians and people involved in the current
restoration of the building, bring the skills, sacrifices and communities of the statehouse
builders to life.
The Willmar 8 Revisited
What motivated eight women, living in a small town, to take on the powerful banking
industry? Twenty-five years after their groundbreaking strike at a Willmar bank, three of
the women involved in this historic struggle recall the issues behind the walkout and talk
about the effect it is still having today. The strikers became known as the Willmar 8 and
attracted international attention, including the award-winning film, The Willmar 8 by
director, Lee Grant, excerpted in the video.
Words from a True Friend: Hubert Humphrey’s Last Speech to Labor
One of the last public appearances by former Senator and Vice President Hubert H.
Humphrey, summarizing his vision of American society and the work of unions that
make that vision possible.