Union (2024)
Up against one of the most powerful companies on the planet, a group of Amazon workers embark on an unprecedented campaign to unionize their warehouse in Staten Island, New York.
- Date of release
- 2024-10-18
- TMDB
- 7.7 / 10 (6)
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Brett Story, Stephen T. Maing
Casting
- Chris Smalls — Self
- Angelika Maldonado — Self
- Connor Spence — Self
- Derrick Palmer — Self
- Jason Anthony — Self
- Brett Daniels — Self
- Gerald Bryson — Self
- Armani Bryson — Self
- Jordan Flowers — Self
- Natalie Monarrez — Self
- Nilah Smalls — Self
- Gianni Smalls — Self
Interesting facts
Union is a 2024 American documentary film, directed by Brett Story and Stephen Maing. It follows the Amazon Labor Union as they seek to unionize Amazon's JFK8 Warehouse in Staten Island.
Production
In 2020, producers Samantha Curley and Mars Verrone contacted labor organizer Chris Smalls to discuss making a documentary about his efforts to organize workers at Amazon's JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island. Curley and Verrone brought on director Brett Story after seeing her short film CamperForce, about Amazon's seasonal workforce.
As Smalls and his fellow organizers formed the Amazon Labor Union and began a union drive at the warehouse, Story saw the opportunity to make a film about “a new generation of labor organizers, a generation that’s grown up entirely in the post-Reagan era of union decline and globalized corporate capital, and who would be learning, in real time, how to organize collectively and outside of mainstream union support”.
Five months into production, Story invited Stephen Maing to co-direct the film. Together, they followed organizing efforts on Zoom and on the ground in Staten Island, as well as internal efforts by Amazon to discourage employees from joining the union. They showed the film to participants in the project, in order to vet anything that could potentially be high-risk or fireable, with all of them responding well to the film.
The film received grants from Catapult Film Fund, Field of Vision, International Documentary Association, Sundance Institute, NBCU Academy/NBC News Studios, Chicken & Egg Pictures and Hot Docs Canadian International Film Festival.
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