“A Strike and an Uprising” chronicles two big wins for labor activists facing long odds.
By Rose Cahalan
There’s a scene in A Strike and an Uprising (in Texas), a new documentary on labor history, in which three cafeteria workers sit in an empty classroom at Stephen F. Austin University. They’re watching footage from 1987, when their predecessors unionized and successfully fought the university’s plan to contract out their jobs and eliminate benefits. As a beaming organizer says, “There’s power in numbers,” and triumphant music swells, the women stare at the screen, unblinking and expressionless.
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