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...
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.
deal jobs less
It's about jobs ... and if you have less jobs how you deal with people.
basis bit chrysler local picked serious signal start table
Things at the local table picked up a bit yesterday. For Chrysler to start doing local negotiations on a serious basis this early, it may very well be a signal they want to get a settlement,
canadian might number people prove school thinking tied
The school of thinking of a number of people around here is that he's Canadian and he might want to prove that he's not tied to his past.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.