Final Offer by Robert Collison, Sturla Gunnarsson, - NFB
The history of the Canadian labour movement (and the left more generally) is marked by a continuous struggle between international and national unionism. In Canada, one of the reasons why we have a separate Canadian Autoworker Union is because Canadian Autoworkers wanted to maintain their shop floor militancy at a time when their American counterparts were retreating. The following film deals with this struggle and lucidly demonstrates how the Canadian section of the UAW became the CAW. Over the coming w