By far the most honest review for the film comes from The New York Times. The rest vacillate between sappy and pandering. Read the New York Times one first.

Last things first: a credit at the end of “Labor Day” reads, “The film was partly financed by SEIU who cooperated fully with the filmmakers.” And how.

Glenn Silber was producing videos for the Service Employees International Union in 2007 when he decided to make a film about the union and its role in the presidential campaign. The result is, more than anything else, a slickly produced 76-minute commercial for the union; to call it a documentary is to stretch the term almost beyond meaning.

Not everyone caught the “financed by SEIU” note at the end apparently. From GapersBlock.com:

In fact, if you told me that the SEIU personally financed the making of this film, I’d have no trouble believing you.

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This new video from TeachersUnionExposed.com shows how teachers unions protect bad and incompetent teachers, and block school reform efforts.

Compared to other developed countries, the United States has the worst educational quality per dollar spent on schools, ranking 18th in reading and 28th in math. Millions of American children are being shortchanged by dysfunctional schools, but efforts for education reform are invariably stopped by powerful union interests.

These unions fight tooth and nail against any meaningful change to their comfortable status quo – while students and taxpayers pay the price.

After decades of denial, there is a growing realization around the country that teachers unions’ defense of the status quo cannot continue. A new generation of reformers, including Michelle Rhee, the chief of public schools in Washington DC, are fighting those unions and pushing for renewed accountability and an end to the broken tenure system.

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In his video, Udall discusses completely unrelated topics of higher tuition, higher gas prices, and more expensive health care, none of which will be affected in the SLIGHTEST by EFCA legislation.  The Employee Free Choice Act deals with the basic American freedom of a private ballot, labor law minutia, and the delicate relationship between workers, business, and labor interests.  Udall has managed to skirt these realities throughout the campaign, instead resorting to platitudes such as ”I support workers” that do not address this destructive legislation.  Coloradans for Employee Freedom will continue to press Udall until he pledges to do the right thing by supporting American workers’ right to private ballot voting…   ]]> http://laborpains.org/2008/09/11/mark-udalls-opponent-bob-schaffer-weighs-in-on-efca/feed/ 1