Just saw it. Thought it was pretty good, had some rousing protest scenes and I love the idea of just going into a building and calling out the workers.
There were obviously downsides. For one, much of the focus was on union officials. The ratio of camera time for union officials v. camera time for union members was actually pretty shocking.
Secondly, there was no discussion of the on the shopfloor organising. All these shops seemed to just magically had members which officials and activists could magically walk in and call them out. I mean, I'm sure they have their reasons for that, but I think if we want to make labour documentary it should give a realistic picture of the organising that went on before the big sexy actions. Without that, it's really easy to think, 'Well in x place, the workers are just more militant. I mean just look, all of them are union members and they strike just by being called out. Shit that my co-workers aren't like that...'
Plus there was a line about, 'they can't punish you for striking, it's illegal'. Horrible advice.
I'm especially curious to hear from, if possible, from NZ folks who might have seen how the campaign functionted on the ground..
http://libcom.org/library/super-size-my-pay-fast-food-workers-new-zealan...