Oil deposits were discovered in the Colombian province of Casanare in the mid-1990s.
On March 29, 2012, millions participated in the 24-hour strike in Spain. It was the first general strike since September 2010, and it brought the country to a standstill.
Jean-Pierre Levaray has worked in a chemical factory near Rouen since 1973. In 2002 he wrote about his experience in the book "Damn Factory" ("Putain d'usine").
Seven years after the movement that kicked Ben Ali out of power, protests are back in Tunisia on a big scale.
"A home of one’s own: that’s the American dream. But what happens when the dreamers are immigrants, factory workers, and Communists?
This comedy is about workers in a factory in Picardie, who discover one morning that their factory buildings are empty and they got sacked. The boss has disappeared.
During the night between September 14 and 15, Abd Elsalam Ahmed Eldanf (53, father of five) was killed while he was on strike with other workers in front of the GLS logistic plant in Piacenza.
Inflation in Turkey is spiralling and worker strikes are spreading across industries, from manufacturing and logistics to the healthcare sector.
"The first camera in film history was pointed at a factory, but a hundred years later it can be said that the factory has hardly attracted the camera but rather rejected it.
Very informative video about the uprising in Chile.
330 concrete mixer drivers are shutting down the construction industry in Seattle, February 2022. They are reacting to a drastic increase in the cost of living.
Berlin, January 3, 2005 - Several hundred demonstrators walk in front of the state employment agency (Arbeitsamt) in the district of Wedding.
September 2016, Italy - demonstrations and strikes after the murder of the GLS-worker Abd Elsalam during a strike.
"Dagenham, an English automobile town at the end of the 60s: Rita O’Grady and186 other women work as sewing machinists in a Ford factory.
Gurgaon/India, June 22, 2009 - Families of construction workers dwell in corrugated-iron shacks in front of the bizarre new buildings of Gurgaon, a symbol of an economically prosperous India.
On June 7, 2011 Sodexo workers in Bogotá organized a day of protest, together with the Sinaltrainal Union and with the support of the American union SEIU.
Documentary about the workers' struggle against the privatization of their company at Jugoremedija in Zrenjanin/Serbia during the transition period.
"We are feminist from Vienna and we wrote this song in response to the labeling of us workers as “heroes” during the first lockdown.
Film about factory workers who try to make a stand against their oppression. The action takes place in 1966, the first year of recession in West Germany.
Kali Akuno talks about Cooperation Jackson, a network of cooperatives in Jackson, Mississippi (USA).
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