Labor Day

Labor Day
Glenn Silber
2009 / U.S. / 76min


Summary

Labor Day follows a group that played a pivotal role in the electing of Barack Obama: the SEIU (Service Employees International Union), the nation’s fastest-growing labor union, with more than two million members. Labor Day is a chronicle of this union’s engagement and mobilization to ensure a Democratic victory in 2008. For Labor, the Presidential campaign was mission critical. After eight years of Republican policies, the union felt an incredible sense of urgency to change the direction of the economy and the country.

　　

Director

Glenn Silber has been a documentary director and producer for more than 30 years, both as an independent and a network television news magazine producer. His work has been nominated for two Academy Awards and he has won the George Polk Award (“The Great American Bailout”), an Emmy, a WGA Award and the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism. He is now a partner and co-founder of Catalyst Media Productions, a media production and consulting firm, since 2007.