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The Shop Steward
195321 min 57 secFilm: Fiction
Direction: Morten Parker
Production: Guy Glover
Script: Morten Parker
Produced by the National Film Boad of Canada in cooperation with the Canadian and Catholic Confederation of Labour, the Canadian Congress of Labour, the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada and the Canadian Department of Labour.
A dramatized presentation of the role of the shop steward in the effective day-to-day functioning of free trade unionism, the film begins with the election of machinist Johnny Walachuk as shop steward for the men in his section of a large industrial plant. Continuing, it shows the part the shop steward plays in carrying out the grievance procedures set up by company and union. How Johnny fulfills his responsibility to protect the men who elected him from infractions of the agreement is told in his own words and typifies the function of union shop stewards generally in Canada. Number one of the series.
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Subject categories
- Work and Labour Relations > Labour Relations
Credits
- director
- Morten Parker
- script
- Morten Parker
- executive producer
- Guy Glover
- photography
- Hector Lemieux
- sound
- Clifford Griffin
- editing
- David Mayerovitch
- sound editing
- Kenneth Heeley-Ray