Documentary Spotlight: American Jobs

Ran across an interesting new documentary in my daily travels across the web today: American Jobs. It looks like the usual: guy gets camera, guy goes around the country getting personal stories from ordinary folks affected by the topic he plans to cover. Seen it a number of times in new documentaries that have been popping up the last few years, but overall it seems to be a pretty decent formula.

In the film American Jobs, the filmmaker goes around collecting the stories of folks that have had their jobs outsourced so the company could save money/make more money from cheaper labor. Anyone that has called customer/technical support in the last five years has no doubt already learned of this greedy business when you finally get someone on the line and neither of you knows what the heck the other is saying. One lady in the trailer of this film got a packet detailing the day she would be fired, the day or two after she was to train her Indian replacements. From what I can tell from the trailer, he talks to folks ranging from mill workers to Boeing technicians to systems analysts. I'll post a follow up to this in a week or two once the DVD comes in the mail and I get a chance to watch it, but off the cuff it looks good.

The Head of the Machinists union that Boeing laid off workers from says in the film:

Several years ago one of their leaders made the statement 'This is not a family operation, this is a team, and like any team we can replace the players'

How jacked is that? Check out the website for the film here. Check out the trailer and the extra clips.