The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant

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06/13/2011 A glimpse into America's de-industrialization thru the eyes of these workers . . . their faces are no longer "just a number" attached to corporate down-sizing. See more 12/11/2010 This documentary films the story of the closing of the huge GM truck plant near Dayton, Ohio, and the effect it had on the thousands of employees who were laid off. The story is told by the workers, the unsettling fate etched on every single one of their faces. Whilst this is a sad tale, the bigger picture is never really addressed, like why GM remained strangely committed to vehicles that were no longer selling. See more 08/12/2010 A heartbreaking look inside the death of GM as seen through the eyes of a number of employees working for a closing factory. That these honest people have to lose their jobs and rebuild themselves and their lives while CEOs sit by and cash their bonus checks from the bailout is sickening. See more 08/08/2010 Short but bittersweet documentary about the closing of a GM plant in Ohio. It's sad but true that the days of being with the same employer for 25-30 years and retiring with them are fading fast. When a closing on this scale occurs in a town that relies on a plant of this size as it's chief employer, the effects are felt for years and years to come (see Flint). See more 08/02/2010 Oscar-nominated documentary short about the closing of the Moraine GM Plant in Dayton, Ohio. Told entirely from the perspectives of the workers of the plant days and weeks prior to the inevitable closure. The views and opinions may not always be accurate, but this is not necessarily the point of the film. It is very much concerned about the community and family that has been created as a result of the plant. The film also does try to debunk some of the popular thought about why the plants closed. The Last Truck is most definitely worth seeing as a time capsule of a generation of people that is seemingly disappearing from the American landscape. See more 03/26/2010 Good doc showing the cost of the decline of auto manufacturing from the worker's point of view. Does not make any real attempt to explain how or why but does imply unions are NOT at fault when clearly that is a big chunk of it. Points out that pensioners outnumber active workers by four to one. See more Read all reviews

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