At our latest meeting we decided to use our next meeting (Wed 18 March) to view the video which QTU bought to add to the joint QTU/Worklife video library – namely “Amongst Equals” (description is:
“A film (from 1991) about the history of the Australian Trade Union movement – starting with the Shearer’s strike of the 1890’s and leading to the present day, featuring interviews with prominent unionists. The film was sponsored by the Australian Council for Trade Unions which eventually withdrew their support for the project after disagreeing with the Filmmaker’s interpretation of history.”
Our plan then is that, after viewing it, we think it is OK to use, we shall have a film showing of it a few weeks after May Day, so we can publicise it, and Worklife, widely at May Day march.
As Maggie has previously said, another discussion point at the meeting was to look at how we can adrress the Paid Maternity Leave campaign.
I have attached a list of all the videos and VHS tapes which the QTU has in their library (on labour issues).
Have a look at the list…If you know of a film video which is NOT in the collection, and which you think we should purchase to add to the collection, please let us know.
Regards,
Ross Gwyther
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ID: ACJD;1
Classification: 331.8910994 WOR 1988 video
Title: Working it out
Subtitle: an introduction to the world of industrial relations
Corporate author: Curriculum Development Centre (Australia)
Publisher: Curriculum Development Centre (Australia)
Date published: 1988
Physical description: 1 video (VHS format ; 13 min.) and notes (5 p. ; 21 cm.)
Notes
suitable for upper secondary years
notes folded inside case
Location: Main Collection
Copies: 1
ID: AEWK;1
Classification: 331.880994 STR 1980 video
Title: The structure of Australia’s trade unions
Date published: 1980
Physical description: 1 video (VHS format ; 10 min.)
Location: Main Collection
Copies: 1
ID: ABKX;1
Classification: 331.8929945 STR 1984 video
Title: Strikebound
Author -individual
Lowenstein, Richard, writer and director
Bain, Miranda, producer
White, Timothy, producer
Date published: 1984
Physical description: 1 video (VHS format ; 100 mins.)
Abstract
This is the true story of Agnes and Wattie Doig and the first ever stay-in miners’ strike in Australia’s history. It is set in Korumburra, Victoria in the 1930s.It was a strike which gave hope and signity to the life of the coal miner and brought new strengths and inspiration to the working men and women of Australia.
Location: Main Collection
Copies: 1
ID: AFKI;1
Classification: 331.8 ACT 1992 video
Title
A Union of People
Subtitle
the changes the challenges
Corporate author: ACTU
Date published: 1992
Physical description: 1 video ( VHS format ; 12 min.) ; 1 explanatory leaflet
Location: Main Collection
Copies: 5
ID: AFKJ;1
Classification: 331.892 HOW 1985 video
Title: How does it strike you?
Corporate author: Victorian Trades Hall Council
Date published: 1985
Physical description: 1 video (VHS format ; 24 min.)
Abstract
This video is for young people and is intended to introduce them to trade unions. The role of trade unions and the processes they use to solve disputes are frequently misrepresented in the media. The video provides a classroom resource which can be used to explore a number of issues including; the role of trade unions, the means of resolving conflict in the workplace, the process of negotiation, how attitudes towards unions are formed. The issues are raised as union organisers explain their day to day activities and the problems they confront. A practical dimension is added as students of Footscray Technical School play out a simulation game on industrial conflict.
Location: Audio – Visual Collection
Copies: 1
ID: AFPG;1
Classification: 331.892 WIL 1980 video
Title: Wilmar 8
Date published: 1980
Physical description: 1 video (VHS Format ; 50 min.)
Abstract
A film about the longest bank strike in America. Willmar 8 tells the story of how unequal pay, denial of promotional opportunity, and lack of respect drove eight unassuming, church-going women to form a union and begin the first bank strike in Minnesota history. These women weren’t radicals, weren’t feminists. As one viewer- a clerical worker in a large industry- put it, They are like ordinary people, like me…, and the other 20 million women who work in American offices.
Location: Main Collection
Copies: 1
ID: ADNA;1
Classification: 331 LEE 1985 video
Title: The killing floor
Author -individual: Lee, Leslee
Date published: 1985
Physical description: 1 video (VHS format ; 118 min.)
Abstract
Rivetting drama set in the 1917 Chicago Union riots. Lured to the meat packing houses of 1917 Chicago a black sharecropper leaves his faily in hope of finding a better life for his children. He becomes passionate involved in the most vicious labour battle of the era leading blacks against whites in bloody street riots.
Location: Main Collection
Copies: 1
ID: ANCO;1
Classification: 320.07 POL 1997 video
Title: Political education for trade unionists, module two
Amongst equals
Subtitle: History of trade unions
Author -individual: Harty, Ray
Publisher: National Left Unions
Date published: 1997
Physical description: 1 video (VHS format); 9 mins
Notes
A project of the National Left Unions
see also: Accompanying loose leaf folder 320.07 POL 1997, id=ANCM
Holdings: Modules 1 – 10
Copies: 1
ID: ANCZ;1
Classification: 320.07 POL 1997 video
Title: Political education for trade unionists , module eight
Making the grade
Subtitle: reconciliation with indigenous Australians : the way forward for trade unions
Author -individual: Marshall, Joyce
Publisher: National Left Unions
Date published: 1997
Physical description: 1 video (VHS); — mins
Notes
A project of the National Left Unions
see also accompanying loose-leaf volume “Reconciliation with indigenous Australians” 320.07 POL 1997, id=ANCY
Holdings: Modules 1 – 10
Copies: 1
ID: ANDK;1
Classification: 331.8819009944 FIS 1985 video
Title: Rocking the foundations
Subtitle: a film on the NSW Builders Labourers Federation 1940 – 1975
Author -individual: Fiske, Pat
Date published: 1985
Physical description: 1 video (VHS format ; 85 mins.) : b&w.
Location: in Main Collection
Copies: 1
ID: AFKI;2
Classification: 331.8 ACT 1992 video
Title: A union of people
Subtitle: the changes the challenges
Corporate author: ACTU
Date published: 1992
Physical description: 1 video (VHS format ; 12 min.) ; 1 explanatory leaflet
Location: Main Collection
Copies: 5
ID: BESA;1
Classification: 324.294307 FOW 2000 video
Title: The numbers game
Subtitle: ABC TV’s 4 Corners program broadcast 30 October 2000
Author -individual: Fowler, Andrew
Publication: Broadcast 30 Oct 2000
Physical description: 1 video (VHS format; 45mins)
Location: Main Collection
Copies: 1
ID: BGAD;1
Classification: 303.483 CHA 1986 video
Title: The challenge of change
Subtitle: a film about the effects of technological change on the workplace
Date published: 1986
Physical description: 1 video (VHS format ; 25mins)
Notes
The film was made for the ACTU and the APC by Film Australia
A folded sheet of discussion notes is in video case.
Location: in Main collection
Copies: 1
ID: ALUC 1;1
Classification: 331.8733 TRA 1995
Title: Negotiating in the workplace
Subtitle: Training the Union Representative
Corporate author: TUTA
Date published: 1995
Physical description: 1 video (VHS format ; 14 min.); 1 facilitators guide (looseleaf) “Training the Union representative”
Location: in Main Collection
Copies: 2 videos, 1 booklet
ID: AXKA;1
Classification: 331.88 TRA 1990 video
Title: Trade unions
Subtitle: a classroom project
Corporate author: AMWU
Date published: 1990
Physical description: 1 videorecording (VHS format;14mins; 23mins)
Location: in Main collection
Copies: 1
ID: AXKW;1
Classification: 331.883309943 TOD 1985 video
Title: Strike scenario
Subtitle: Today Tonight
Publisher: Channel 9
Date published: February 1985
Physical description: 1 video cassette recording; VHS format
Abstract
This video deals with the start of the SEQEB dispute when Queensland premier, Joh Bjelke-Petersen rejected wage claims from the electrical workers and strike action was taken.
Copies: 1
Date of Entry: 23 September 2002
ID: CCDH;1
Classification: 323.4 BAR 2007 DVD
Title: Education international barometer of human and trade union rights 2007
Corporate author: Education International
Date published: 2007
Physical description: 1 DVD
Notes: Comes with booklet
Location: CD ROM / diskette collection
Copies: 1
ID: AZKW;1
Classification: 331.89282233409446 ZUB 1984 DVD
Title: Kemira
Subtitle: diary of a strike
Author -individual: Zubrycki, Tom
Date published: 1984
Physical description: 1 DVD (60 min.)
Abstract
In September 1982 the Australian steelworks BHP announced its intention to close down some of its coal mines in the Wollongong area just south of Sydney. The worst affected was Kemira colliery where 300 workers were to lose their jobs. 20 days before the closure of the pit a group of 31 miners occupied the pit and established themselves 5 kilometres underground. The Womens Auxiliary took over one of the company buildings and organised a kitchen, while fellow miners, wives and supporters set up an embassy at the pit-top and kept vigil. Local union officials called a one-day general strike. Several hundred miners, steelworkers and their families took a train journey to Canberra, the national capital. On arrival, they stormed Parliament House bringing the issue to the attention of the whole nation. The strike focused the attention on the plight of the people of Wollongong, which was typical of other Australian cities profoundly affected by the economic recession.
The film captures these dramatic events and then proceeds to follow the fortunes of some of the miners and their families and the profound changes they experienced when the strike finally ended. The film refers to wider historical processes and events and touches on the broader these of worker relations in capitalist economies.
Copies: 1
ID: AZKX;1
Classification: 331.89809943 ZUB 1988 DVD
Title: Friends and enemies
Author -individual: Zubrycki, Tom
Date published: 1988
Physical description: 1 DVD (87 min., 55 sec.)
Abstract
“Friends and enemies” is a provocative film about one of the most vicious and protracted labour disputes in Australian history – one which saw the emergence of the New Right as a powerful force on the country’s political landscape.
In February 1985, over a thousand electrical workers went on strike against the introduction of contractors into Queensland’s Electricity Board. The Premier, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, reacted by calling a state of emergency and sacking 1,002 workers. Soon after, he rushed through parliament some of the harshest anti-union legislation seen in Australia for over 50 years. The film’s director, Tom Zubrycki, spent many months following the main protagonists in these events. The resulting film is a chilling portrait of strong, colourful characters locked in a struggle where the stakes are the future of unionism itself.
Location: CD ROM / diskette collection
Copies: 1
ID: AZKY;1
Classification: 331.880994 ZUB DVD
Title: Amongst equals
Author -individual: Zubrycki, Tom
Physical description: 1 DVD (88 min.)
Abstract
A film about the history of the Australian Trade Union movement – starting with the Shearer’s strike of the 1890’s and leading to the present day, featuring interviews with prominent unionists. The film was sponsored by the Australian Council for Trade Unions which eventually withdrew their support for the project after disagreeing with the Filmmaker’s interpretation of history.
Location: CD ROM / diskette collection
Copies: 1
ID: AZLE;1
Classification: 331.8887320994 DIF 2007 DVD
Title: Difference of opinion
Subtitle: ‘State of the unions’
Publisher: ABC
Date published: 15 August 2007
Physical description: 1 DVD (48 min.)
Notes
Program begins 5 min. 16 sec. into recording.
The panel included Mitch Hooke (Chief Executive, Minerals Council of Australia), Sharan Burrow (President, ACTU), John Roskam (Executive Director,, Institute of Public Affairs) and Mordy Bromberg (President, Australian Institute of Employment Rights)
Location: CD ROM / diskette collection
Copies: 1
ID: AZLL;1
Classification: 331.880993 NEW 2005 video
Title: Unions start with you!
Corporate author: New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Komiti Pasefika
Date published: 2005
Physical description: 1 VHS (18 min.)
ID: AZMF;1
Classification: 331.8733 AUS 2006 DVD
Title: Australian Story
Subtitle: man of steel; Greg Combet
Publisher: ABC
Date published: 28 August 2006
Physical description: 1 DVD (28 min. 38 sec.)
Location: CD ROM / diskette collection
Copies: 1
Worklife Film evening
Date: Thursday April 16, 2009
Time: 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Repeats: This event repeats every month on the third Thursday until Thursday July 16, 2009.
Location: Paddington Workers Centre, 2 Latrobe Tce, Paddington
Notes: Amongst Equals – documentary history of the Australian Trade Union Movement.
— Controversial film by Tom Zubrycki. The film the ACTU did not want you to see in 1990.