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...
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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.
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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.
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There's a good mood, ... People know the union, and the company, by the way, have done an excellent job in terms of dealing with what was a very difficult situation.
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The tone has changed clearly over the weekend and it would appear a settlement is imminent.
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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.
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I don't see an issue out there that would cause us to be out on the street tomorrow at midnight.
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I don't want to downplay what Cordiano and those guys did ... but at no time in the discussions did Ford say we can't (cut further) because of this (deal) with the government,
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It'll open up a lot of old wounds. These things aren't done without a lot of emotion.
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The likelihood of a strike tomorrow at midnight is greatly reduced.
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The likelihood of a strike at midnight tomorrow is reduced substantially by the progress we made over the weekend.
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Am I a little more optimistic? I guess you could say yes. The only problem we still have is there are still some offsets we find offensive.
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All these issues are the same. The right wing and the employers are saying that people shouldn't have security, but people should have the ability to put roots down and buy a home and raise a family.
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The cloth has been cut. The pattern is there,
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The company was honest and frank with us, and together we were able to address those challenges in a manner that clearly satisfied our members.