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Credits

16mm and video, 46 min.
Produced and Directed by Amie Williams, Bal Maiden Films
Co-Producer; HEREIU, Film Consultants: Joe Daugherty and Steven Janowicz, Production manager: Barbara Spanjers, Camera: Robert Bennett, Amie Williams, Editors: Amie Williams, Maureen Gosling, Barbara Spanjers, Original Music Score: John Lumsdaine, with music by Bruce Springsteen, Bill Withers, Sweet Honey and the Rock, Billy Bragg, and WILCO.

Reviews

“No ordinary image of sin city, this film has extraordinary scenes, such as the 20,000 strong labor march that closed down the Strip…in my opinion as an historian who has written about Las Vegas and the West, this was the defining labor struggle of the last several decades, largely ignored by the media.”

Prof. Mike Davis, History Dept., UC Irvine, author, City of Quartz

“Very rarely has a film captured so well the highs and lows of an extended strike. The Frontier Hotel Workers fought heroically for labor’s new era”

Tom Zaniello, Author, “Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds. And Riffraff: An Organized Guide to Films About Labor”

“It truly gives a deeper insight into the struggles of being a union member today.”
Archbishop Jim Keleher
Catholic Archdiocese of Kansas City

“The strike was an event of historic importance, not just for organized labor, but as the film shows, it reveals much about the nature of work and industrial relations in the U.S. today.”

David Montgomery, Prof. Emeritus, History dept. Yale University