CWA Student Video Contest Focuses on Workers' Rights

CWA and Jobs with Justice (JwJ) have announced a contest for progressive student activists with a flair for video production.  Individuals and campus groups are invited to submit a 1 to 3 minute "YouTube style" video highlighting the failure of U.S. labor laws to protect workers' rights and why America needs the Employee Free Choice Act.

Up to 10 contest finalists will be selected, with each receiving a $500 cash prize.  Later, top winners will be determined through online voting with those winners receiving additional prizes of $1,000, $750 and $500 for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place.

The winning videos will be widely circulated through an electronic outreach campaign and posted on a special CWA website promoting the Employee Free Choice Act.

CWA and JwJ will judge the initial 10 finalists based on creativity and effectiveness in telling the story of what's happening to workers who try to exercise their rights to organize and bargain collectively in the face of anti-union employers and a broken labor law system.

The video submissions can be serious or funny, they can be in documentary style, or use actors, street theater, or even animation in making the point about how the bosses try to control and intimidate their workers.

The contest is open now and runs through the end of March, 2008. Students of all ages -- high school through college grad school -- are invited to participate. 

Go to www.efcavideo.com for more information and instructions on entering and posting video submissions online.  Links to online sources for background information on workers rights' and the Free Choice Act are provided.