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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I keep thinking it's going to be easier, and I must say it was at the other two companies.
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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.
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The CAW remains committed to strengthening working class politics and we will expand our financial support and efforts to work with other like-minded groups in our common goal of building a progressive alternative in our country.
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I'm more optimistic today, we should be able to do this in the next few hours. The only way we couldn't is if they stuck to their position on reducing our relief and didn't solve the job security issues in St. Catharines, Windsor, Oshawa and Woodstock.
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I'm up to the challenge. I love what I do and I'm not offended by somebody running at all.
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I'm not very optimistic at this point. The big thing is the demand on jobs that they have, on outsourcing our jobs .Ê.Ê. to anywhere in the world that can do it cheaper.
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I'm not very optimistic at this point, ... The big thing is the demand on jobs that they have, on outsourcing our jobs ... to anywhere in the world that can do it cheaper.
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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.,
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It's a major restructuring. I don't want to downplay it,
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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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That means two or three more vehicles per shift, ... That's good for General Motors but not for the people who build them.
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That means two or three more vehicles per shift,
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they build in Tokyo. They build in Hiroshima. They build anywhere they find a big enough dock to ship their vehicles over here.
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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.