During a strike for equal pay & safer conditions. the Mex-Am. miners’ wives take over picket duties when a court forbids the men, with men not happy but together they win.
Matewan (1987)
Based on the “coal wars” in WV during the 1920s, this is the story of Joe coming to town to organize the strikers into a union. To win, he must unite all factions–whites, Italians, & blacks.