In The Navigators, Ken Loach - cinema's poet of the working class and recipient of the 2002 HRWIFF Irene Diamond Lifetime Achievement Award - follows the fortunes of a group of South Yorkshire rail track workers as the privatization of British Rail takes effect. When Harpic, the depot's boss, gives Paul, Mick and the rest of the gang their new work regulations - the company's "Mission Statement" - "performance related pay" and unpaid holidays seem like a joke. But before long, the choice is very clear to the gang: take their chances with layoffs, severance pay and life as outside contractors, or work for the new company under the new rules....

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