Last night's DC LaborFest screening of "Joe Hill" was also part of the fourth annual Global Labor Film Festival (GLFF). GLFF is organized by labor film festivals around the world which each screen a labor-themed film of their choice during the month of May, chosen because May 1—International Workers’ Day—is a national holiday in more than 80 countries and celebrated unofficially in many other countries. The Global Labor Film Festival showcases the growing worldwide scope of nearly three dozen film festivals focused on films about work, workers and their issues and was first conceived at the second annual International Conference of Labor Film Festival Organizers at the 2012 DC Labor FilmFest, both of which are organized by the Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO. Read more on the AFL-CIO Now blog.