Final offer

This powerful documentary is a fast-paced and dramatic chronicle of last year’s contract talks between the United Auto Workers union in Canada and the General Motors Corporation. Because the filmmakers, Sturla Gunnarsson and Robert Collison, were given unparalleled freedom to record these historic negotiations, FINAL OFFER provides a vividly accurate portrait of a high-level labour-management battle. But this film is unique in other ways: it records one of the great nationalist dramas in recent Canadian history, and is an invaluable document for anyone interested in the complexities of the U.S./Canada relationship. Because of tensions which developed between the American and Canadian selection of the UAW during the contract talks, the film ends with Bob White, the charismatic leader of the Canadian union, talking his members out of the international union. FINAL OFFER is a timely and extraordinary film about revolutionary events.