After all the waiting, all the anticipation, all the lobbying to get your union siblings to vote for your favorites, Power At Work is ready to announce the winners of the 2025 Labor Oscars. Who will take home The Worker? Watch this Labor Oscars Awards Ceremony blogcast to find out.
In January, we published a list of 68 worker power films divided into four categories: Best Feature Film, Best Documentary, Best International Labor Film, and Best Worker Profile (small group or individual). Then, we recruited a superstar cast for Power At Work's 2025 Labor Oscars Nominating Committee. These distinguished trade unionists, film academics, film critics, labor film festival leaders, directors, actors, and former Power At Work student "co-ops" chose a shorter list of movies in each of these four categories –– and a fifth category, Worst Labor Film –– for your consideration.
Then, in mid-February, we turned the decision-making over to you –– Power At Work's subscribers. And the votes poured in. Now, we are ready to make YOUR decisions public.
It's the biggest reveal since, well, the Labor Grammys awards ceremony just a few weeks ago (have there been any others?)!
We proudly present the 2025 Labor Oscars awards ceremony. Our guests for this very special event are:
Harold Phillips - actor, host of the "Labor Week" podcast, SAG-AFTRA member, and co-coordinator of the Labor Radio Podcast Network;
Jennifer Merin - journalist, film critic, and co-founder and President of the Alliance of Women Film Journalists; and
Tami Gold - a documentary filmmaker, visual artist and professor at Hunter College of the City University of New York in the Department of Film and Media Studies. Tami was one of the directors of Out At Work: Lesbians and Gay Men on the Job, a documentary feature that we proudly included on our 2025 Labor Oscars list of worker power films.
Watch the blogcast below to enjoy our experts' commentary on our nominees, their discussion about the importance of positive representations of labor in media, and the eagerly awaited “reveal” of the winner of this year’s The Worker!
A small, apologetic note to our audience: we experienced technical difficulties in the recording process that caused us to lose one guest's video feed late in the episode and to have a few additional audio problems. These challenges shouldn't affect your enjoyment of the episode, but it stopped us from adding subtitles. To watch this 2025 Labor Oscars Awards Ceremony with subtitles, please visit the Burnes Center for Social Change's YouTube channel and use the YouTube closed caption function.
