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...
looking moving president
Right now, as the president of the union, I'm looking to moving to DaimlerChrysler,
absolutely face issues major progress
On the major issues that face us, we have made absolutely no progress at all,
agreement call clear early economic gm green pattern prepared progress stated table tomorrow until
Mr. Green stated I will call you early tomorrow to let you know if and when GM is prepared to table an economic offer, ... It is not clear how much progress can be made until the pattern agreement is tabled.
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,
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.
demanding major somewhere
They're demanding major outsourcing of our jobs, not because they need it but because they think they can make them somewhere else cheaper.
close costs difference impossible vast
There is still such a vast difference in the costs it would be impossible to get close to our costs.
membership tough
It was a tough set of bargaining, ... To get that kind of endorsement from the membership is just exhilarating.
deal jobs less
It's about jobs ... and if you have less jobs how you deal with people.
buy large number
They tabled a large number of offsets, some make sense as long as it doesn't disadvantage our members, ... But a number of those we're just not going to buy into.
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.
afraid embrace expense families members
We're not afraid of change, we embrace change. But not at the expense of our members and their families and their communities.