☝🏼When We Are One | Sat, 21 September (4PM – 6PM)

Register to attend this session: https://freedomfilm.my/fff2019-programme/when-we-unite/

BILA KAMI BERSATU (When We Unite) follows the lives and struggles of four women from Malaysia’s national hospital service workers’ labor union (Kesatuan Pekerja-Pekerga Swasta Perkhidmatan Sokongkan di Hospital-Hospital Kerajaan Semenanjung Malaysia). The documentary shows these women workers fighting perhaps their union’s most important battle to date: a collective action to have their wages raised to RM1500. At the same time, it documents their day-to-day experiences as hospital service workers. “Bila Kami Bersatu” provides rarely-seen insight into the lives of working-class women in Malaysia, by showing the real-life stakes they face within an increasingly unequal economic system, and the political and social risks they are willing to take in order to improve their lives, as well as the lives of all other workers in their industry.

“Bila Kami Bersatu” merakam kehidupan dan kepayahan empat orang wanita dari Kesatuan Pekerja-Pekerja Swasta Perkhidmatan Sokongan di Hospital-Hospital Kerajaan Semenanjung Malaysia. Dokumentari ini akan menunjukkan wanita-wanita ini bersama pekerja lain berjuang bagi isu terpenting kesatuan mereka sehingga hari ini: aksi kolektif menuntut gaji mereka dinaikkan ke RM1,500. Dalam masa sama, ia juga merakam pengalaman harian mereka sebagai pekerja hospital. “Bila Kami Bersatu” membawa kita melihat kehidupan wanita kelas pekerja di Malaysia, dengan merakam isu-isu sebenar yang dihadapi mereka dalam sistem ekonomi yang makin tidak seimbang, serta risiko sosial dan politik yang sanggup mereka ambil untuk memperbaiki kehidupan sendiri dan yang lain dalam industri.