What can a truck driver do if his company decides to rent trucking services and to let him go? More and more companies find it practical to “contract out” subsidiary operations such as the trucking of their goods, with consequent layoff of some men. A common cause of industrial disputes, this problem is dramatized to provide ground for discussion.
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In ACMI's collection
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
002376
Language
English
Subject categories
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Employee rights
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Employees, Dismissal of
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Labor disputes
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Management
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Redundancy
Communications, Infrastructure, & Transport → Trucking
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Employee rights
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Industrial relations - Canada
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Labor and laboring classes
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Labor disputes
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)