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The Case of Barbara Parsons
197851 min 57 secFilm: Fiction
Direction: Morten Parker
Script: Morten Parker
Produced for the NFB by Parker Film Associates for Labour Canada.
This title is an acquisition.
Barbara Parsons is a recently hired employee with the company where Michael Blais has worked for nineteen years. Still, when a supervisor announces his retirement, Barbara applies for and is promoted to the position ahead of him. This film dramatizes a situation that could happen in any unionized company--the violation of a contract between management and labour--and shows the four main steps to be followed in the grievance procedure.
Availability
Subject categories
- Work and Labour Relations > Labour Relations
Credits
- director
- Morten Parker
- script
- Morten Parker
- photography
- Richard Leiterman
- sound
- Brian Avery
- editing
- David McLeod
- music
- Tony Romandini
Awards
- Craft Award for Best Direction to Morton ParkerYorkton Film Festival
- Golden Sheaf Award for Best DramaYorkton Film Festival
- Red Ribbon AwardItinerant - American Film and Video Festival