American Dream

Release Date:

Mar 18, 1990

MPAA Rating:

PG-13

Running Time:

1:40

Genre:

Documentary

Director:

Barbara Kopple

Cast:

Jesse Jackson
Ray Rogers

Producers:

Arthur Cohn

Language:

English

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This acclaimed documentary focuses on a mid-1980s workers' strike at a Hormel meatpacking plant in Minnesota. After employees have both their wages and benefits cut, the local union endorses a strike, but complications arise when the national branch of the union doesn't follow suit. This divide in viewpoints has unexpected consequences for organized labor in the United States, and makes for intriguing depictions of workers' rights, strikes and union negotiations.

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