Final Offer (1985) TV Movie
The filmmakers were given remarkable freedom to record the historic 1984 contract negotiations between the United Auto Workers and General Motors Corporation. Bob White, labour leader of the Canadian branch of the UAW, must also confront his American counterpart from Detroit and succeeds in arriving at a contract that is significantly Canadian. His members had already given him a mandate to fight for independence from the American union. (nfb)
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada
Directed By: Sturla Gunnarsson, Robert Collison
Written By: Robert Collison
Starring: Henry Ramer, Rod Andrew, Owen Beaver
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Final Offer belongs to 9 collections
1. Good but virtually unwatched movies (public version) (public: moderated by djross - 33 stars)
2. Left-wing politics (public: moderated by djross - 23 stars)
3. Business, Finance and Economics (public: moderated by djross - 9 stars)
4. Documentaries about capitalism (public: moderated by djross - 8 stars)
5. Union (public: moderated by djross - 4 stars)
6. Directed collaboratively (public: moderated by djross - 3 stars)
7. Canadian director (public: moderated by iconogassed - 1 star)
8. Canadian politics (public: moderated by iconogassed)
9. Best Documentary: Canadian Screen Awards (public: moderated by iconogassed)
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iconogassed | 100 98% |
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Turns out there really was a great documentary about labour, GM, and Roger Smith made in the '80s. Not merely great, but singular: nothing else offers as direct a view of events as important and wide-ranging (obvious at the time, tragically so post-NAFTA). And few surely feature a protagonist as compelling or powerful--justly or not--as Bob White, in a story that really does play like a thriller. History has helped with the deux ex machina: they had us by the reproductive organs anyway.
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