Union (Take One Action)

Name: Union (Take One Action)
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2025-09-20
Duration: 1 h 44 min

BEYOND THE SCREEN: Join Take One Action for an energising post-screening discussion with local union organisers and activists, rooting into the power of collective action and exploring contemporary labour struggles both internationally and here in Scotland. Access notes: Significant pacemaking and storytelling through on-screen text. Primarily bright imagery, with some dull scenes. Occasional overlapping dialogue. A group of fulfillment center workers take the fight to Amazon, becoming the first unionised Amazon workplace in the United States. On April 1, 2022, a group of workers made history by becoming the first unionised Amazon workplace in the United States. Union takes us inside this momentous David and Goliath labour struggle in searing cinema vérité. We follow workers at an Amazon fulfillment center in Staten Island as they tirelessly fight to establish a union, while one of the most powerful, exploitative corporations in the world pulls out every dirty trick to stop them. Formed by Christian Smalls after he was fired for protesting Amazon’s improper safety protocols during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Amazon Labour Union (ALU) was set up with no prior organising experience, no institutional backing, and a grassroots budget raised on GoFundMe. As difficult battles emerge one after another, interpersonal tensions build and the exhaustion of workplace organising runs high – but what seemed impossible lies within reach. This is the story of ALU's victory against all odds.DocumentaryPT1H44M182025-09-20

Kevin Jerome Everson

Union (Take One Action)"Union (Take One Action)"

Showtimes

September 20, 5:45 pm