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...
decent demanding everywhere fed job respect security starting wages workers
Workers everywhere are just starting to say, 'Look, we're fed up with this. We're going to start demanding that we have respect and we have job security and we have decent wages and benefits,'
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.
pain
We're not going to come out of this without some pain.
announce avoid optimistic today
We are optimistic today that we can avoid a strike. We could announce something today.
agreement rich
We're not going to have a rich agreement, but we're going to have a responsible agreement.
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.
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.
difficult faced ford industry means moderate motor response richest union
This is not the richest settlement. There will be moderate improvements in most areas. I think it is a responsible response by Ford Motor Co. in some of the most difficult times that we've faced as an industry which means our union has to face it as well.
difficult faced ford means moderate motor response richest union
This is not the richest settlement ... There will be moderate improvements in most areas. I think it is a responsible response by Ford Motor Co. in some of the most difficult times that we've faced as an industry, which means our union has to face it as well.
failing formal last move opportunity prior selecting
So we're going to give them the opportunity now to move off of that and try to get a settlement even before the 20th but failing that there will be a strike. And the last formal get-together we had with DaimlerChrysler they werfe just as tought then as they were prior to us selecting Ford.
agreement course difficult general reached tough
After some tough negotiations we have reached a tentative agreement. This has been a very difficult and challenging set of negotiations with General Motors and of course we anticipated that.
challenges declining difficult faced ford general happen happened market share
This has been a very difficult and challenging set of negotiations with General Motors. The challenges we faced here didn't happen by chance. They happened because of the declining market share of General Motors, Ford and DaimlerChrysler.
commitment economy job jobs low meeting quality sell wage
Just because we're a low wage economy and you can get someone to do our job cheaper, you don't have the right to sell our jobs as long as we're meeting the commitment of quality and productivity.