Who Moves America

Following up on Saving Capitalism (2017), The Big Scary “S” Word (2020), and When We Fight (2022), Yael Bridge continues her study of organized labor in the U.S. Starting in 2022, the film travels across the country, shadowing members of the UPS union as 340,000 workers prepare to strike with their contract set to expire. They demand safety, better pay, humane hours, and job security. With the looming threat of a mobilization that could bring the country to a halt, the film examines the precarity of workers’ lives at the intersection of capitalism, climate change, and racism. It is a document of how the UPS/Teamsters, the largest single bargaining unit in all of North America, organize and join forces to reclaim the power that, truly, keeps America moving. (BC)