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Description
This film examines industrial change in North America and provides an unprecedented inside look at contract negotiations between General Motors and the United Auto Workers in Toronto in 1984. Believing U.S. counterparts have been cheated by a profit-sharing agreement, Canadian UAW director Bob White fights to keep traditional wage increases-taking on GM Chairman Roger White and UAW President Owen Bieber at once. What begins as a routine meeting turns into a confrontation with broad economic implications as White leads his membership to separate from the international union. Factory scenes demonstrate how the assembly line system pits workers against management.
Runtime
79 min
Subjects
Contributor
- White, Bob (3)
- International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (2)
Geography
Genre
Date of Publication
[2014], c1985
Database
Films on Demand
Direct Link
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