Completing a workers' rights-themed trilogy after the Oscar-winning ‘Harlan County U.S.A.’ and ‘American Dream,” Kopple portrays the struggles of New York City delivery workers with clear-eyed purpose.
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Courtesy of Cabin Creek Films Across the harrowing financial realities of late capitalism, an indisputable global fact is the injustices faced by countless workers who deliver everything we have come to rely on, from food orders to Amazon purchases. Despite their hard work under unideal, sometimes even unsafe conditions, it’s no secret that delivery staff have been barely compensated with dignified wages, a topic that Oscar-winning filmmaker Barbara Kopple tackles in her fiery documentary “Union Town.” Focused on a variety of recent legal cases unfolding in New York, Kopple’s film is both aptly angry and optimistically community-minded in charting the fight of several Big Apple workforce groups: delivery staff, union leaders, Teamsters and others trying to bring about meaningful change to an increasingly corrupt system that leaves these hourly workers behind.
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