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ITF film wins labour shorts award
10 June 2009
An ITF film outlining the dire working conditions of undocumented Burmese migrant fishers has won a labour film festival award.
The film, Abandoned, but not forgotten: the plight of Burma’s migrant fishers, has been awarded “Best labour film short of 2009” by the Geneva Labour Film Shorts Festival, which will take place on 16 June in Geneva, Switzerland. The film exposes the brutal treatment of migrant workers from Burma employed in Thailand’s fishing industry and outlines the steps seafarers’ unions are taking to expose these crimes and help the workers win basic rights.
Other films that will be shown at the festival on 16 June address the need to defend independent media, union strategies to end child labour, the importance of maternity protection for women workers and a united steelworkers' response to the global financial crisis.
The event will take place at the Grütli Theatre from 19h00 and is being hosted by all the global union federations, the International Trade Union Confederation and the Trade Union Advisory Committee.
Sarah Finke, ITF policy coordinator, will receive the award on behalf of the ITF.
A list of the film line-up is on the festival’s website at: www.labourfilmshorts.org
Watch the film at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deCo_ZBSk-U
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