UAWD is pleased to announce that we will be showing a screening of the documentary “Company Town” online on Sunday November 15, 2020 at 2:00 PM CST.
“In 2018, workers at the General Motors plant in Oshawa, Ontario were rocked by a bombshell announcement just weeks before the holiday season.
After 100 years of production, GM would be shutting down operations at the end of 2019, despite receiving a multi-billion dollar government bailout as recently as 2009. The city once known as “The City that Motovates Canada” was shaken to its core.
Unifor — the powerful national union representing the auto workers — immediately went on a war footing.
Launching a massive anti-GM media campaign and calling for a boycott of the company’s vehicles, Unifor soon found an unlikely ally in rock superstar Sting, who — while in Toronto to perform in The Last Ship, his play about union struggles in England in the 1980s — stepped up to perform a solidarity concert for the GM workers. Firebrand Unifor leader Jerry Dias was adamant there would be no plant closure “without one hell of a fight.”
To order tickets for the screening, please visit the Canadian Labour International Film Festival website. Tickets are free for this viewing, but are only available to viewers in the United States.