LOL... then you haven't a very broad experience in meeting people. Many of the people I met in my life are keenly aware of the benefits labor organization brought to them. Needed reforms back when we had 16 hour work days, with one day off a week IF that, child labor, dangerous working conditions and all the other rot out there.
Your film list is romanticized propagandist claptrap and you may as well have shown F.I.S.T. in that too. How about Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"? That talks a lot about how unionization's communist roots are hand in hand with each other. Their proud past ENDED in the 1950's and early 60's. Since then, they've been more of a net drain on the economy fighting for sloth and greed as shown by the collapse of many heavy union industries in this country.
Rising corporate oligarchy? Pfft... you're totally ignorant of the abuses, or willfully blind to the damage your beloved unions have done with THEIR own little oligarchy.
See what I mean?
This is exactly what I'm writing about: The corporatist indoctrination. The brainwash. The toss-out-the-baby-with-the-bathwater mentality. Wal-Mart is good. Unions are bad. Ordinary workers are scum and do not deserve a living wage.
It doesn't matter that the The Harlan County movie is a live documentary -- it's propaganda according to the brainwashed corporate water carriers. So is the Hoffa movie -- even though it is based entirely on easily researched historical facts. As are all the union movies I've listed. Yes they are presented in an entertaining format, which is not "romanticized claptrap" but is conducive to learning. The thing to know is
all are predicated on facts, not fiction and opinions as is the propaganda spewed by corporatists who insist the union movement is communist.
Believe what these characters have to say and 99% of Americans will soon be working for burger-flipping wages.