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- Collision course : Ronald Reagan, the air traffic controllers, and the strike that changed America / by McCartin, Joseph Anthony.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Getting the picture -- The main bang -- Pushing back -- Wheels up -- Confliction -- Course correction -- Flight ceiling -- Turbulence -- Down the tubes -- Pilot error -- Dead reckoning -- Trading paint -- Aluminum rain -- Debris field -- Black box.
- Subjects: Reagan, Ronald.; United States. Federal Labor Relations Authority.; Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (Washington, D.C.); Air Traffic Controllers' Strike, U.S., 1981.; Collective bargaining; Collective bargaining;
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- American dream [videorecording] / by Cohn, Arthur,1928-; Kopple, Barbara.; Wiesel, Marion.(CARDINAL)341513; Buena Vista Home Video (Firm)(CARDINAL)436571; Cabin Creek Films.; Miramax Films.(CARDINAL)436238; Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm); Prestige (Firm);
Cinematography, Peter Gilbert, Kevin Keating, Hart Perry ... [et al.] ; editors and co-directors, Cathy Caplan, Tom Haneke, Lawrence Silk ; music, Michael Small.American dream: After President Ronald Regan broke the air traffic controllers' strike in 1981, American corporations declared open season on organized labor. This Academy Award winner for best documentary in 1991 presents the true-life story of the 1985-1986 workers' strike against Geo. A. Hormel & Company in Austin, Minnesota. When Geo. A. Hormel & Company made $2 million in profits, then cut its workers' salaries by $2.00 an hour each, the workers had only one option: Go out on strike. This film documents the workers efforts to retain these middle-class, blue-collar jobs from beginning to end.Children of the night: "More than a million Jewish children died in the Holocaust. This brief film is the result of a world-wide search for archival material showing some of these children. The footage we discovered - in the U.S.A., Israel, Britain, France and Germany - was often in extremely poor condition and always silent. It reveals the barest trace of what was lost." - Title screen. 18 min.MPAA rating: Rated PG-13.DVD; Dolby Digital surround sound.Winner, Academy Award, Best Documentary, Features-Barbara Kopple and Arthur Cohn, 1991.
- Subjects: Documentary films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Geo. A. Hormel & Company.; United Packinghouse, Food, and Allied Workers. Local 9 (Austin, Minn.); Geo. A. Hormel & Company Strike, Austin, Minn., 1985-1986.; Industrial relations; Labor unions; Labor unions; Packing-house workers; Packing-house workers; Strikes and lockouts; Strikes and lockouts; Working class;
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- American dream / by Kopple, Barbara,directorproducer.; Cohn, Arthur,1928-producer.; Wiesel, Marion,author.; Buena Vista Home Video (Firm),distributor.; Cabin Creek Films.; Miramax Films.; Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm); Prestige (Firm);
"Hell of a mess" -- Hard times in Hormel -- "Labor Fights!" -- Union friction -- On the road -- "Get the gloves on" -- Negotiations -- "They're not givin' in" -- Scabs incoming -- Calling in the Guard -- Spreading the picket -- Priorities -- "Settle it" -- Moving on -- End credits.Cinematography, Peter Gilbert, Kevin Keating, Hart Perry ... [et al.] ; editors, Cathy Caplan, Tom Haneke, Lawrence Silk ; music, Michael Small.American dream: After President Ronald Regan broke the air traffic controllers' strike in 1981, American corporations declared open season on organized labor. This Academy Award winner for best documentary in 1991 presents the true-life story of the 1985-1986 workers' strike against Geo. A. Hormel & Company in Austin, Minnesota. When Geo. A. Hormel & Company made $2 million in profits, then cut its workers' salaries by $2.00 an hour each, the workers had only one option: Go out on strike. This film is documents the workers efforts to retain these middle-class, blue-collar jobs from beginning to end.Children of the night: "More than a million Jewish children died in the Holocaust. This brief film is the result of a world-wide search for archival material showing some of these children. The footage we discovered - in the U.S.A., Israel, Britain, France and Germany - was often in extremely poor condition and always silent. It reveals the barest trace of what was lost"--Title screen.MPAA rating: PG-13; for momentary strong language.DVD; region 1; Dolby Digital surround sound; widescreen presentation, aspect ratio 1.85:1; NTSC.Academy Awards, 1991: Best Documentary, Features (Barbara Kopple and Arthur Cohn)
- Subjects: Nonfiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Feature films.; Documentary films.; Geo. A. Hormel & Company.; United Packinghouse, Food, and Allied Workers. Local 9 (Austin, Minn.); Geo. A. Hormel & Company Strike, Austin, Minn., 1985-1986.; Labor unions; Strikes and lockouts; Labor unions; Working class; Industrial relations; Strikes and lockouts; Packing-house workers; Packing-house workers; Jewish children in the Holocaust.; World War, 1939-1945;
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