Labor & Employment Law

Nominate a Video for LabourStart?s Labor Video Competition

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Stuart Elliott, senior correspondent for LabourStart, the global online labor news service, reminds us it?s time to nominate videos for the Labor Video of the Year competition.

For the second consecutive year, LabourStart is sponsoring the Labor Video of the Year competition, open to trade unionists and filmmakers from around the world.

Video entries must be online, run less than three minutes and focus primarily on work, workers or workers’ issues. You do not have to be the owner or producer of a video to nominate it. There are categories for organizing, drama, comedy, documentary, musical, science fiction and other.

Nominations must be submitted before midnight GMT (8 p.m. EDT) on April15, 2011. Winners will be announced after two weeks of online voting.

The producer of the overall winning video will receive a subscription to IMDB Pro, worth $100. Winners in the various categories also will be recognized. The overall winning video and runner up will be featured Nov. 18?20 in a special screening at the LabourStart global solidarity conference in Istanbul.

Last year?s winner was ?What have Unions Ever Done for Us?? a Monty Python-like look at a scowling CEO and his minions as they prepare to bring a union to its knees (see video above). The video was produced by Your Rights At Work, the Australian counterpart of the AFL-CIO community affiliate, Working America.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on March 24, 2011 (boomark / email).