https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/8ac892ab-24fe-4c86-bfc6-0e0cc236fa80 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com Dating to 1960 and produced by New World Productions for the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen union, "Pursuit of Happiness" is a promo film that covers the organization's history, goals, work, and benefits. The film explains how the union is structured and how collective bargaining works in general, and highlights various benefits including equal pay, higher wages, lower working hours, and increased workplace safety. It also covers the rights and responsibilities of union members. (Note: the AMCBW became part of the United Food and Commercial Workers [UFCW] in 1979.) 00:00 Main titles and intro 0:37 produced by Ted Robinson and directed by Val Lindberg, 0:54 a New World production, 1:07 workers showing up to their shifts at work, 1:21 a family eating at a table, 1:30 people on their way to work, 1:47 different jobs including butchers, farmers, bankers, and pharmacists, 2:30 people in work clothes walking on the street, 2:38 a man helping another man light a cigarette, 2:53 a butcher called Ed Jones cutting meat, 3:30 another Butcher who is in a Union cutting meat, 3:44 different meat related jobs including butchers, sheep shearers, poultry workers, cowboys, and food processing workers, 4:22 different shots of cities where the Union is active including New York, Chicago, Seattle, and San Diego, 4:45 meat workers of different ethnicities eating food, 5:40 butchers selling their wares, 6:00 people being inducted into the Union, 6:20 different meat related jobs including butchery, fish cutting, and food processing, 6:58 a man giving the oath to join the union, 7:34 different local union headquarter buildings, 7:49 an artist’s rendition of the Union’s new international headquarters, 8:00 union staff working in the main office, 8:26 president of the Union Earl W. Jimerson, 8:40 the National Negotiation Committee in a meeting, 9:30 women working in an apple canning factory,10:45 the Grievance Committee meeting with the boss of the factory, 10:54 women working in the factory, 12:23 workers striking at a factory, 13:16 men signing contracts, 14:00 factory workers striking, 14:10 the empty meat processing plant during the strike, 14:30 workers striking in front of the factory, 15:26 the empty meat processing plant, 16:10 workers in the meat processing factory after all of their demands had been met, 16:34 union heads meeting with managers, 17:21 people at a regional Union conference, 18:17 a Union membership certificate, 18:33 a map of the US showing how Unions are divided across the country, 19:26 diagrams explaining the difference between regional and local representation and at which levels unions operate at, 20:06 workers in a meat processing factory, 20:56 a woman signing paperwork, 21:10 different branches of chain stores including Von’s and Safeway, 21:23 union members receiving health check ups at a union clinic, 22:06 an organigram of the National Committee of Labor’s League for Political Education, 22:15 children in the classroom and on a playground, 22;28 a man making ground beef, 22:52 a union election, 23:40 different workers including garment workers, farmers, teachers, scientists, 24:02 a union member filling out a ballot, 24:15 a local union leadership meeting, 24:30 people working in the research and education department at the Union headquarters, 25:03 production of the “Butcher Workman" union magazine 25:28 students in a university course, 25:49 apprentices at training center 26:51 the apprentice now working as a full employee, 27:06 workers enjoying themselves at a picnic organized by the Local 421 AF of L, 27:43 a union group bowling, 27:57 people playing on a union baseball team, 28:31 a woman packing supplies to donate for CARE, 28:50 people walking on the street in different cities, 29:02 a parade organized by the Union’s St. Louis Chapter, 30:00 overview of a cemetery with a focus on different gravestones, 30:32 employees at a meat processing plant, 31:16 workers leaving their shift at packing plant. 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