Final Offer is a Canadian film documenting the 1984 contract negotiations between the United Auto Workers Union (UAW) and GM. Ultimately, it provided a historical record of the birth of the Canadian Auto Workers Union (CAW) as Bob White, then head of the Canadian sector of the UAW, led his membership out of the International union and created the CAW. The United Auto Workers (UAW), officially the United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America International Union, is one of the largest labor unions in North America, with more than 700,000 members in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico organized into approximately 950 union locals. ... General Motors Corporation NYSE: GM, also known as GM, is a United States-based automobile maker with worldwide operations and brands including Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, Holden, Hummer, Opel, Pontiac, Saturn, Saab and Vauxhall. ... Canadian Auto Workers Logo The Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) is one of Canadas largest and highest profile trade unions. ... Binomial name Colinus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758) The Bobwhite Quail or Northern Bobwhite, Colinus virginianus, is a ground_dwelling bird native to North America. ...
Funded by the National Film Board of Canada, directed by Sturla Gunnarsson and Robert Collison and produced by John Kramer, Sturla Gunnarsson and Robert Collison. The National Film Board of Canada (usually National Film Board or NFB) is a Canadian public filmmaking organization established to produce and distribute films that inform Canadians and promote Canada around the world. ...
FinalOffer, a film about heated labor negotiations between Canadian Auto Workers and General Motors, provides a unique inside look at the high-pressure world of labor negotiations, where coalitional dynamics are intense and consequential, and issues of brinksmanship, behind the table negotiations, and sequencing are particularly relevant.
The film was introduced by Robert Mnookin, Chairman of the PON Steering Committee, and Guhan Subramanian, Assistant Professor at Harvard Law School, who will be leading the 2003 winter Negotiation Workshop.
In addition to FinalOffer, The Program on Negotiation Film Series has featured such diverse titles as Remember the Titans and Mediators of the Pacific.
The film itself, creative child of first-time dramatic screenplay author Thomas Ropelewski, was a rather untouched topic, slightly similar to 1998's The Object of My Affection, yet it ended in a rather unexpected twist.
The film's rendering of the complications of human relationships and the abundance of seethy conflict within them reflect an uncanny understanding of the normality of human error.
Perhaps, it is partially the result of a lacking script that, at times, riddles the film (Rupert, in an earlier interview with Vogue magazine, mentioned that he had reworked parts of the script to fit Madonna's personality before offering her the part).
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