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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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.
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Given the current economic context that we're in, this is not the richest-ever agreement that we have bargained, but it's a responsible bargaining, recognizing all of the issues that we face,
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working on finalizing an agreement that balances the needs of the CAW, our employees and the company.
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We have a new 1996 collective bargaining agreement, ... I think this is good for General Motors, CAW and all of our employees.
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We're not going to have a rich agreement, but we're going to have a responsible agreement.
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Chrysler made it very clear to us when we were doing our probing to try to find out where we could get the best agreement on our issues without a strike that ... that if we didn't accepot their demands on outsourcing and (plant) closure that we could not get an agreement with them and they would forsce the dispute,
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Chrysler made it very clear to us when we were doing our probing, to try to find out where we could get the best agreement on our issues without a strike, that . . . if we didn't accept their demands on outsourcing and (plant) closure that we could not get an agreement with them and they would force the dispute,
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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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We thought this would be a lot easier than it's turned out to be,
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Every member of our union realizes it's not business as usual anymore.
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We will move ahead and we will have a stronger position in terms of progressive politics down the road.
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Unfortunately, I don't think they would be doing it this way if there was not going to be some negative news about changes. If there were no changes, they could just simply give us a phone call. But it doesn't look good.
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We've had one strike in the last 30 years with Ford. It shows that they work a lot harder to get something that is mutually acceptable. That relationship, that history we think is our greatest strength going into bargaining.
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We've had one strike in the last 30 years with Ford, ... It shows that they work a lot harder to get something that is mutually acceptable.