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DESCRIPTION:Film – Metro Ladies Blues, Film- Phansi, Down with Labour 
 Brokers\n\nMetro Ladies Blues – 2018 (30 min.) By Video Press 
 (Japan)\n\nSubway lines run through Tokyo’s underground like spider 
 nests. There are many non-permanent workers working in kiosks at these 
 stations. Their pay won’t go up however the years they have worked 
 compare to permanent workers. Four years ago, for the first time in their 
 lives, they, many of them are over 60, decided to form a union. The company 
 fought against them by pushing the 65 year old retirement policy to kick 
 them out without any retirement money. These women decided to go on strike, 
 and this is their story.\nhttp://vpress.la.coocan.jp\n\nPhansi, Down with 
 Labour Brokers – 2018 (64 min.) By Tariq Richards (S. Africa)\n\nMore 
 than twenty years since the end of apartheid, disparate groups of workers 
 for whom very little has changed – failed by the state, betrayed by a 
 corrupt and outdated traded union movement, subjugated by modern labor 
 brokers.\nOver the past 20 years capitalism has transformed so that bosses 
 are selling labor to other bosses but worker protections in the form of 
 industrial unions has not transformed in accordance. – In South Africa 
 the lack of transformation among the working class is captured through the 
 eyes of Jacob, whose life is transformed from unfairly dismissed worker to 
 budding young film-maker through his interactions with the Casual Workers 
 Advice Office.\n\nAward for this film at: 
 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8723322/awards?ref_=tt_awd\n\nhttps://laborfest.net/event/metro-ladies-blues-2018-and-phansi-down-with-labour-brokers-2018/\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/06/21/18824159.php
SUMMARY:Laborfest: Films: Metro Ladies Blues; Phansi
LOCATION:518 Valencia, San Francisco, 16th St BART
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/06/21/18824159.php
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