Buzz Hargrove
Buzz Hargrove
Basil Eldon "Buzz" Hargrove, OCis the former National President of the Canadian Auto Workers trade union. He is currently serving as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Ryerson University's Ted Rogers School of Management...
asked bad call early ford meeting morning news unless
Ford has asked me for an early morning meeting tomorrow, which indicates to me they wouldn't call us into a meeting unless they had some bad news for us.
clear improving job led pensions people saying security time
It was pretty clear that they couldn't do anything by saying we led the way in improving wages, pensions and job security for people in a time when they were going the other way in the U.S.,
families strike today
It's going to strike a lot of Windsor families today when they get this news.
company deal meet shows tough union
It shows that even in tough bargaining, if the union and the company meet their responsibilities, a deal can be reached,
membership tough
It was a tough set of bargaining, ... To get that kind of endorsement from the membership is just exhilarating.
anywhere build dock ship vehicles
they build in Tokyo. They build in Hiroshima. They build anywhere they find a big enough dock to ship their vehicles over here.
major
It's a major restructuring. I don't want to downplay it,
deal jobs less
It's about jobs ... and if you have less jobs how you deal with people.
based ford importance relationships union workforce
What we did here was based on relationships and commitments by Ford to its workforce and the long-term relationship with our union and the importance they place on us,
backing
We are not backing away from the pattern,
company either hang hope night tomorrow toward
We're going to hang with the deadline, ... We either have a settlement or we'll have a shutdown tomorrow night at midnight. We're working toward a settlement and we hope the company is doing the same thing.
early jobs likely monday saying selling strike sunday
What they're saying to us is that they are selling our jobs out to the market. We're not going to take that. Sunday or early Monday we will likely tell them that we will strike them.
agreement balances employees needs
working on finalizing an agreement that balances the needs of the CAW, our employees and the company.
amount bargaining challenges difficult downtime faced ford given good knew media workers workplace
We faced one of the most difficult challenges in bargaining that we have in a good many years, ... the Ford workers probably knew that more than anyone, given the amount of downtime they've had, given the uncertainty, the media speculation of workplace closures and layoffs.