“Kesatuan ada dalam tangan kami. Syarikat semakin takut. Pekerja sudah bangkit. Hidup Kesatuan!”
“We have the union now. The company is scared. The workers have arisen. Long live the union!”
Sinopsis
[ENGLISH VERSION BELOW] Bila Kami Bersatu mengisahkan kehidupan dan perjuangan tiga wanita dari Kesatuan Pekerja-Pekerja Hospital Nasional Malaysia dalam memperjuangkan secara kolektif tentang kenaikan gaji bulanan mereka kepada RM1,500.
Filem ini mendokumentasikan pengalaman harian mereka sebagai pekerja perkidmatan hospital dan memperlihatkan perspektif yang jarang dilihat tentang kehidupan seorang wanita dalam golongan pekerja buruh di Malaysia. Filem ini juga memperlihatkan taraf hidup sebenar yang mereka hadapi dalam kenaikan sistem ekonomi yang semakin tidak setaraf, juga risiko politik dan sosial yang mereka perlu harungi bagi memperbaiki kehidupan mereka serta pekerja-pekerja lain dalam industri ini.
Synopsis
‘Bila Kami Bersatu’ (When We Are One) follows the lives and struggles of three women from Malaysia’s National Hospital Service Workers’ Labour Union as they, together, fight for their monthly salaries to be raised to RM1,500.
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The film documents their day-to-day experiences as hospital service workers, providing rarely seen insights into the lives of working-class women in Malaysia. It also shows the real life stakes they face within an increasingly unequal economic system, as well as the political and social risks they take to improve their lives and those of the other workers in their industry.
Pengarah/Directors: Minxi Chua dan Asyraf Abd Samad
Producer: Freedom Film Network
AGENDA RAKYAT - Lima perkara utama
- Tegakkan maruah serta kualiti kehidupan rakyat
- Galakkan pembangunan saksama, lestari serta tangani krisis alam sekitar
- Raikan kerencaman dan keterangkuman
- Selamatkan demokrasi dan angkatkan keluhuran undang-undang
- Lawan rasuah dan kronisme
