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...
although close fall far feeling somewhat
We're close enough to do this, but far enough away to fall in the ditch, ... We're feeling somewhat better this morning, although we're not there.
ditch far
But we're also far enough apart, ... that we could end up in the ditch tonight.
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We're going to hang with the deadline, ... We either have a settlement or we'll have a shutdown tomorrow night at midnight. We're working toward a settlement and we hope the company is doing the same thing.
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What they're saying to us is that they are selling our jobs out to the market. We're not going to take that. Sunday or early Monday we will likely tell them that we will strike them.
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.
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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,'
based ford importance relationships union workforce
What we did here was based on relationships and commitments by Ford to its workforce and the long-term relationship with our union and the importance they place on us,
backing
We are not backing away from the pattern,
manage resist threaten union
Our union does not resist change, so long as we can manage it in a way that does not threaten our members.
canada values view
I think that was a short-term view of the values of Canada.
angry believe canadian consistent frustrated letting looking market opposed worry
I'm so frustrated and angry about this decision, I can't believe it. It's irresponsible at best. My worry is it's consistent with the Harper government's idea of letting the market decide, as opposed to looking after Canadian interests.
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Our major problem is imports and lack of ability to export into the emerging growth markets of Asia. They ship into North America at their leisure and they close their markets to anything built in Canada and the United States.