BROTHERS ON THE LINE - Official Trailer

[demmiblue]

Now available on Netflix, iTunes, Amazon Instant, and Google Play across the U.S. and Canada. (http://www.brothersontheline.com/buy/) Brothers On The Line is a documentary feature exploring the lives and legacy of the Reuther brothers - Walter, Roy, and Victor - pioneering labor organizers and social justice statesman, and their remarkable leadership of the United Auto Workers union. Directed by Victor's grandson Sasha Reuther and narrated by Martin Sheen, the film follows the brothers from their rise as shop-floor organizers in 1930s Detroit to leaders in collective bargaining, civil rights, and international labor solidarity. It combines rare UAW archive footage, personal photos, oral histories, and original HD interviews with a broad spectrum of labor, civil rights and political personalities. A timely tale of one family's quest to compel American democracy to live up to its promise of equality, Brothers On The Line is a dramatic blueprint of successful social action. For more info visit www.brothersontheline.com

[BigmanPigman]

1. They should show the film "Norma Rae" today too.

IN 1991 in CA (yes, that recently and a blue state no less) I experienced harassment from the store manager when I spoke about organizing a union during my paid 15 min break in the small lunchroom. Someone reported me to the general manager and I was read the riot act. When I changed careers due to the economy I chose teaching since it had a union when not many careers offered one. I was the Alternate Rep and was harassed by every principal, administrator, and school that I worked in for my entire career. When I chose not to be the rep we had a new principal and on her first day at the staff meeting she already knew who the new rep was, told him to stand up and said in front of everyone, "You and I will know each other very well and very soon". They still harass unions and get away with it. FUCK Repubs and FUCK Reagan!

[apkhgp]

2. Fixation

These Right Wing nut jobs have their agendas. They push them through without caring what it does to working person. The person that has one or multiple jobs. All to provide for families. These workers do not care about "agendas", not when you have to work your butt off.

As for Reagan, he sent this country in to that recession we had in the 1980's. And his wife Nancy would go around defending her husband against anybody that talked ill of him.

And now we have something in the White House that is even worse.

UN F-ING GD BELIEVEABLE

[BigmanPigman]

3. My Italian grandmother called Nancy a puttana (whore)

until 2014 when she died at 104 years old. She hated the GOP and Nancy was her favorite to verbally assault. Gee, I miss her (my grandmom, not Nancy).

[apkhgp]

4. I understand

My family is of European descent and I know that word puttan. In Croatian the word is strega "stray-ga".
A little bit of a language lesson.